Thal is a small village in Austria, near the city of Graz. Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec, pronounced grah-dets), with a population of 305,000 (council census 2000) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German). ...
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Thal is only a few miles west of Graz, Austria's second largest city and the capital of the province of Styria (die Steiermark in German).
In those days, despite its proximity to Graz, Thal was a provincial, isolated place to live, with a total of three telephones and one TV set (at the local Gasthaus).