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still exist. Only a short part of the railroad line at
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moved southward along the Mur, and laid waste to a broad swath of land on both sides of the river; their cavalry pillaged, burned and abducted almost unhindered. In 1680 and 1681 the last outbreak of the
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Tourism, mainly in the form of hiking and cycling, has developed into a significant economic factor. Mostly from the 1970s onward, a service economy has also begun to flourish in the Sulm valley.
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flourished. Recently, one of the largest known cemeteries from the late Roman period has been identified on one of its slopes.
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