Sillian

Sillian is a market town in the district of Lienz, in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Sillian
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Sillian in Osttirol.jpg
Settlement.image_shield: Wappen at sillian.png
Settlement.shield_size: 80x110px
Settlement.pushpin_map: Austria Tyrol#Austria
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 270
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location within Austria
Settlement.image_map: Sillian.png
Settlement.mapsize: 260x260px
Settlement.map_caption: Location within Lienz district
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Austria
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Tyrol
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Lienz
Settlement.parts_style: para

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Wikidata facts

Population: 2030
Area: 36.26
Elevation: 1103
Official website: www.marktgemeinde-sillian.at
Image: Sillian in Osttirol.jpg
Dialing code: 04842
Licence plate code: LZ

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postal code: 9920
Commons category: Sillian
Commons gallery: Sillian
email address: mailto:[email protected]
P8168: Louis Harold Gray

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Sillian is a market town in the district of Lienz, in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

==Geography== The municipality, at a height of about , is the main settlement in the East Tyrolean Hochpustertal, the eastern part of the Puster Valley, stretching from Lienz up to the border with South Tyrol, Italy, in the west. The settlement is situated north of the upper Drava river, on the sunny slopes of the Villgraten Mountains. In the south, the valley stretches to the Lienz Dolomites and the Carnic Alps.