Sister Cities of the World

Sister cities of Raabs an der Thaya

Raabs an der Thaya is a municipality with 3,114 inhabitants in Waidhofen an der Thaya (district) in the Waldviertel of Lower Austria, near the Austrian border with the Czech Republic. The area of the municipality is 134.65 square kilometers, 27.6% of which is forested.

The German Thaya and the Moravian Thaya unite to form the Thaya at Raabs. The castle here, built in the last half of the 11th century, have been exonymically called Rakous (formerly Rakús) by neighbouring Czechs, which is the origin of the Czech and Slovak name for Austria as a whole, Rakousko/Rakúsko.

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