Named for the Austrian province, also known as Styria, and the capital of which is Graz {see planet  (2806)}. The territory was colonized by the Illyrians and then by the Celts. Later it was part of the Roman provinces of Noricum and Pannonia. The writer Peter Rosegger (1843–1918) and the conductor Karl Böhm (1894–1981) were born in Styria. The white Lippizaner horses of the Spanish Court riding school in Vienna are bred in this region. (M 25979) _ _.