Editing History of Styria (section)

===Prehistory to Charlemagne===
[[File:Steiermark Wappen.svg|thumb|367x367px|Coat of arms of the Dukes of Styria, crowned with the [[Ducal hat of Styria|ducal hat]].]]
The [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] history of Styria is as part of [[Noricum]] and [[Pannonia]], with the romanized [[Celt]]ic population of the [[Taurisci]]. During the [[migrations period|great migrations]], various Germanic tribes settled and/or traversed the region using the river valleys and low passes, but about 600 CE the [[Slavs]] took possession of the area and settled assimilating the remaining autochthonous romanized population.

When Styria came under the hegemony of [[Charlemagne]] as a part of [[Carantania]] ([[Carinthia (duchy)|Carinthia]]), erected as a border territory against the [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]] and Slavs, there was a large influx of [[Bavarii]] and other [[Christianized]] Germanic peoples, whom the bishops of [[Salzburg]] and the [[patriarchs of Aquileia]] kept faithful to [[Rome]]. Bishop [[Vergilius of Salzburg]] (745-84), was largely instrumental in establishing a church hierarchy in the Duchy and gained for himself the name of "Apostle of Carantania." In 811 Charlemagne made the [[Drave]] River the boundary between the [[diocese]]s of Salzburg and Aquileia.