Carinthia-Styria, from Villach to Graz

Adding a 40 by 120 mile section this time, which begins just north of Villach-Klagenfurt, in fact, which were both part of the last map. Lot of mountains here as I pass over the eastern end of the Alps.

The lands around Graz might just be the most prosaic part in central Europe. The Counter-Reformation has assured the area's catholicism, Styria was not a theatre devastated in the Thirty Years' War, Graz is fortified, administrative and predominantly clerical in its political structure. The countryside is manor-and-monastery based in its structure and oversight, while tolls that permit movement between the mountains makes the area rich. One such "gate" is controlled by Skofja Loka & Klagenfurt, reaching west toward the Tirol, off map, the other by Marburg & Graz, reaching to Vienna.

The region is protected by Hungary to the east against raids (though they might yet occur) and Ottoman pressure, but this is so rare that a guarded frontier anxiety is not in effect. Life stretches into peace in these parts up until the time of Napoleon, who will overturn everything in about 156 years. Until then, it remains an orderly, Catholic, rural, hierarchical and relatively secure region.

And a Disneyland of dungeons.