Austria
Austria,Pronunciation: , ; , , Alemannic German: ''Öschtreich, Eschtrych''}} formally the Republic of Austria,
}} is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine federal states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and federal state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has a population of around 9 million.
The area of today's Austria had been inhabited since at least the Paleolithic period. Around 400 BC, it was inhabited by the Celts and then annexed by the Romans in the late 1st century BC. Christianization in the region began in the 4th and 5th centuries, during the late Roman period, followed by the arrival of numerous Germanic tribes during the Migration Period. Austria, as a unified state, emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium, first as a frontier march of the Holy Roman Empire, it then developed into a duchy in 1156, and was made an Archduchy in 1453. Being the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy since the late 13th century, Austria was a major imperial power in Central Europe for centuries and from the 16th century, Vienna was also serving as the Holy Roman Empire's administrative capital. Before the dissolution of the empire two years later, in 1804, Austria established its own empire, which became a great power and one of the largest states in Europe during its whole existence. The empire's defeat in wars and the loss of territories in the 1860s paved the way for the establishment of Austria-Hungary in 1867.
After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, Emperor Franz Joseph declared war on Serbia, which ultimately escalated into World War I. The empire's defeat and subsequent collapse led to the proclamation of the Republic of German-Austria in 1918 and the First Austrian Republic in 1919. During the interwar period, anti-parliamentarian sentiments culminated in the formation of an Austrofascist dictatorship under Engelbert Dollfuss in 1934. A year before the outbreak of World War II, Austria was annexed into Nazi Germany by Adolf Hitler, and it became a sub-national division. After its liberation in 1945 and a decade of Allied occupation, the country regained its sovereignty and declared its perpetual neutrality in 1955.
Austria is a semi-presidential representative democracy with a popularly elected president as head of state and a chancellor as head of government and chief executive. Major cities include Vienna, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, and Innsbruck. Austria has the 13th highest nominal GDP per capita with high standards of living; it was ranked 22nd in the world for its Human Development Index in 2022. The country has been a member of the United Nations since 1955 and of the European Union since 1995. It hosts the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and is a founding member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Interpol. It also signed the Schengen Agreement in 1995, and adopted the euro currency in 1999. Provided by Wikipedia
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Superior document: Die Ministerratsprotokolle Österreichs und der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie 1848 - 1918 Ser. 1, Die Protokolle des Österreichischen Ministerrates 1848 - 1867, Abt. 3, Das Ministerium Buol-Schauenstein, Bd. 6
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Superior document: Die Ministerratsprotokolle Österreichs und der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie 1848 - 1918 Ser. 1, Die Protokolle des Österreichischen Ministerrates 1848 - 1867, Abt. 3, Das Ministerium Buol-Schauenstein, Bd. 6
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Superior document: Die Ministerratsprotokolle Österreichs und der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie 1848 - 1918 Ser. 1, Die Protokolle des Österreichischen Ministerrates 1848 - 1867, Abt. 4, Das Ministerium Rechberg, 1
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Superior document: Denkschriften / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 440
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Superior document: Forschungsbericht ... des Instituts für Demographie der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 13
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Superior document: Neueste Reise durch Oesterreich ob und unter der Ens, Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Kärnthen und Steyermark in statistischer, geographischer, naturhistorischer, ökonomischer, geschichtlicher und pittoresker Hinsicht unternommen Erster Band
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Superior document: Erinnerungen Lebensgeschichten von Opfern des Nationalsozialismus Band 4 3
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