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Maribor (German: Marburg an der Drau, rarely Italian: Marburgo) is a city in Slovenia and the seat of the Maribor urban municipality. With a population of 108,000 as of 2002, it is the second-largest city in the country. Maribor lies on the river Drava at the meeting point of the Pohorje mountain, the Drava valley, the Drava plain, and the Kozjak and Slovenske gorice hill ranges. It is the center of the Slovenian region of Lower Styria and its largest city. The nearest larger urban center is Graz in Austria which is about 50 km (30 miles) away. Maribor's coat of arms features a white pigeon flying downwards above a white castle with two towers and a portcullis on a red shield.

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