What is "lavant"

n. 1 (context UK dialectal English) A shallow or more or less intermittent spring. 2 (context UK dialectal English) A violent flow or rush of water.

Lavant (in Latin Lavantina) was a bishopric suffragan of the Prince-archbishop of Salzburg, then in the southern part of imperial Austria's Styria. Later the area was reassigned to presentday Slovenia. It became the Slovenian bishopric of Maribor, a suffragan of the Archbishop of Ljubljana, on 5 March 1962. On 7 April 2006 the diocese was elevated to the Archdiocese of Maribor.

While the bishops of Lavant bore the title of prince (Fürst), this was purely honorary and they never became full-fledged prince-bishops with secular power over an independent prince-bishopric (Hochstift) such as the Prince-Bishops of Passau or Freising or the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg. They only exercised pastoral authority over their diocese like other ordinary bishops and for that reason, they did not have seat and voice in the Imperial Diet.

Lavant was a bishopric, suffragan of the Prince-archbishop of Salzburg.

Lavant may also refer to:

• Lavant, Tyrol, Austria, a municipality
• Lavant (UK electoral ward), West Sussex, England
• Lavant, West Sussex, a civil parish
  • Lavant railway station
• River Lavant, West Sussex, the winterbourne after which the village is named
• Lavant (river), Carinthia, Austria
• Lavant, Ontario, Canada, a community in the township of Lanark Highlands, Ontario
  • Lavant viaduct, a motorway bridge over the river
• Christine Lavant (1915-1973), Austrian poet and novelist
• Denis Lavant (born 1961), French actor

The Lavant is a left tributary of the Drau in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It originates in the small Lavantsee at the southern slope of the Zirbitzkogel mountain in Styria, then turns southeastwards and after 7 miles reaches the border to Carinthia. The river flows through the towns of Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal, Wolfsberg and Sankt Andrä until it reaches the Drava shortly before it crosses the border to Slovenia.

The name Lavant stems from the Pre-Celtic period, meaning "shining river" in Indo-European.

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Lavant is an electoral ward of Chichester District, West Sussex, England and returns one member to sit on Chichester District Council.