Hallstatt meaning

hôl'stăt', häl'shtät'
Of or relating to a dominant Iron Age culture of central and western Europe, probably chiefly Celtic, that flourished from the ninth to the fifth century bc .
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Designating or of an Iron Age culture (c. 700-400 b.c.) in central Europe, characterized by swords of bronze or iron with winged metal terminals, and by the domestication of horses.
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A village in Salzkammergut, Austria, known historically for the production of salt.
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Origin of hallstatt

After the type site at Hallstatt , a village of northern Austria

Sentence Examples

  • HALLSTATT, a market-place of Austria, in Upper Austria, 67 m.

  • The Hallstatt cemeteries contained weapons and ornaments from the Bronze age, through the period of transition, up to the fully-developed Iron age.

  • deep); the Hallstatter-see or Lake of Hallstatt (1629 ft.

  • 116) they comprised as many as 112 different tribes, and from the remains discovered in the tombs at Hallstatt, La Tene and other places, they appear to have been fairly civilized.

  • In Brandenburg, Lusatia, Silesia, Posen and Saxony, where there was no strong Bronze age tradition, Hallstatt influence is very noticeable.

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