sentences:  The Sulm valley region lost many vital connections to the South (especially to the city of Marburg an der Drau, now Maribor) in 1919 when Lower Styria was annexed to emerging Yugoslavia.As a result, the region became more oriented towards the North, and towards the Styrian capital, Graz but also became a "quiet corner" of Austria.On occasion of a January 1947 special envoy meeting on Austrian affairs that was held in London's Lancaster House, Yugoslavia made territorial claims not only against the southern parts of the Austrian province of Carinthia (where the population had voted to remain with Austria in the Carinthian Plebiscite of 1920), but also against parts of Southern Styria which were completely Austrian.