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  Austria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In Upper and Lower Austria and in Burgenland, tillage agriculture predominates: the chief crops are potatoes, sugar beets, fruit, barley, rye, and oats.
Austria is located at the crossroads of Europe; Vienna is at the gate of the Danubian plain, and the Brenner Pass in W Austria links Germany and Italy.
Austria captured world attention in 1986 when former UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim was elected president despite allegations that he had been involved in atrocities as a German army staff officer in the Balkans during World War II.
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 Austria Regional Country Austria
Austria (German Österreich), republic in central Europe, bounded on the north by the Czech Republic; on the northeast by Slovakia; on the east by Hungary; on the south by Slovenia, Italy, and Switzerland; and on the west by Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany.
Austria is a democratic, federal republic governed according to the constitution of 1920, as amended in 1929 and subsequently modified.
VI HISTORY At the beginning of the Christian era, Austria was sparsely inhabited by Illyrian and Celtic peoples who from time to time advanced into the northern plains of Italy.
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 Albert II of Austria - Biography of Albert II of Austria
Albert II of Austria (Habsburg, December 12, 1298 – Vienna, August 16, 1358, known as the Wise or the Lame) was Duke of Austria.
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Albert's high reputation is shown by the fact that Pope Benedict XII asked him to mediate in the church's conflict with Emperor Louis the Bavarian in 1335.
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 Kingdoms of Germany - Austria
Western Franks secede from the Germanic Empire, and Austria is controlled by the various Frankish rulers of the fledgling Holy Roman Empire.
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 Albert of Saxony (philosopher) Summary
Albert was born as the son of a farmer in a small village; but because of his talent, he was sent to study at the University of Prague and the University of Paris.
Albert's work in logic also shows strong influence by William of Ockham, whose commentaries on the logica vetus (on Porphyry, and Aristotle's Catagoriae and De interpretatione) were made the subject of a series of works called Quaestiones by Albert.
Albert's Physics basically guaranteed the transmission of the Parisian tradition in Italy, where it was authoritative along with the works of Heytesbury and John Dumbleton.
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 The Austrian Flag
The flag was adopted by Friedrich II., der Streitbare, the last Babenberg as Duke of Austria in the 13th century.
According to legend, Duke Leopold V. of Austria (1157-1194) was involved in a fierce battle during the Crusades.
Austria became one of the marches (the Ostmark) of the Holy Roman Empire after the Battle of Lechfeld in 955, and was given a margrave around 960.
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 AUSTRIA : Encyclopedia Entry
Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy consisting of nine federal states and is one of six European countries that have declared permanent neutrality and one of the few countries that includes the concept of everlasting neutrality in their constitution.
Austria, shorn of Hungary, was proclaimed a republic in 1918.
Austria became a member of the European Union in 1995, but it retained its strict constitutional neutrality and forbade the stationing of foreign troops on its soil.
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 Austria
Albert I (Holy Roman Empire) (circa 1248-1308), Holy Roman emperor (1298-1308) and duke of Austria (1282-1308).
Son of King Albert I of Germany; succeeded brother Frederick I (III as king of Germany) as duke of Austria (1330); ruled jointly (1330-39) with younger brother Otto, later (1339-58) alone.
Son of Albert I; chosen by a minority of electors (1314); waged long war with Louis of Bavaria (1314-22); defeated at Muhldorf (1322) and imprisoned (1322-25); acknowledged Louis as emperor; joint ruler (1325-30).
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - AUSTRIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
There is no report of any punishment of the participants in the massacre, although it had been proved by the bishop that the miracle of the host was a fraud perpetrated by a priest who, after dipping a host in blood, claimed that it bled because the Jews had pierced it.
Under the order of the duke, all the Jews of Austria were imprisoned (May 23, 1420); the poor among them were expelled from the country; and the well-to-do were kept in prison, and their property was confiscated.
In 1660 he had married Margaret Theresa, a Spanish princess, and her influence was strongly brought to bear against the toleration of the Jews, for to this fact she ascribed the misfortune of the death of her first-born.
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 Austria Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
The highest peak in Austria is the Grossglockner (11,573 ft/3,527 m) in the Hohe Tauern group.
In Upper and Lower Austria and in Burgenland, tillage agriculture predominates; the chief crops are potatoes, sugar beets, barley, corn, rye, and oats.
In the reign of Francis II, Austria was drawn (1792) into war with revolutionary France and with Napoleon I. The treaties of Campo Formio (1797) and Lunéville (1801) presaged the dissolution (1806) of the Holy Roman Empire, and, in 1804, Francis II took the title of Francis I, Emperor of Austria.
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 Ancestors and Family of Albert of Austria Habsburg
Albert II Habsburg, German ruler, king of Bohemia and Hungary, and (as Albert V) duke of Austria, was the son of Albert IV of Habsburg, duke of Austria.
Albert succeeded to the duchy of Austria on his father's death in 1404.
Albert married Elizabeth of Bohemia, daughter of Sigismund of Bohemia and Barbara Celjska, on 28 Nov 1421.
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 Albert VI of Austria - History Wiki - a Wikia wiki
Albert VI (1418 - 1463) was the Duke of Carinthia and Styria, and Margrave of Carniola from 1424 until 1463.
Albert was born on 2 December 1418 in Vienna as the younger surviving son of Archduke Ernest the Iron.
From 1446 he was made the regent of Further Austria, and he soon became embroiled with disputes with Frederick.
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 Frederick V of Austria - History Wiki - a Wikia wiki
Frederick of Habsburg (1415 - 1493) was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1452 until 1493, the King of Germany from 1440 until 1493, the Archduke of Austria from 1458 until 1493, and the Duke of Carinthia and Styria, and Margrave of Carniola from 1424 until 1463.
Frederick was the elder surviving son of Archduke Ernest the Iron and Cymburgis of Masovia.
He was elected the Holy Roman Emperor in 1452 and was the last Emperor to be crowned in Rome, although Frederick was opposed to reforming the Empire and struggled to resist the Imperial Electors electing a new king.
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 Franz Ackermann - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Constructed graphics are corroded, integrated as if by evolution, to incorporate somatic qualities: sublime contemplation is achieved only through artificial enhancement.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 2
Albert III of Austria, Duke of Austria Habsburg
Albert III the Pious, Duke of Bavaria Wittelsbach, b.
Albert VI of Austria, Archduke of Austria Habsburg, b.
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 AUSTRIA - HUNGARY
Austria began as a frontier land of Charlemagne's empire and rose to be the chief German state, ruling many neighboring peoples.
Austria's rise to power began with the Babenberg dynasty, which began when Leopold I became Margrave of Austria in 976.
As far as Austria was concerned, the powers accepted the Pragmatic Sanction; and Frederick the Great ratified the election of Maria Theresa's consort, Francis I of Lorraine, as Holy Roman emperor.
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 Austria - The Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Although the Habsburg Empire continued to expand in the east at Turkish expense, Charles VI recognized that defense of Austria's position in Europe required greater economic and political centralization to foster the development of a stronger economic base.
Late in 1741, the elector-prince of Bavaria, Charles Albert, occupied Prague, the capital of Bohemia, with the aid of Saxon and French troops and was crowned king of Bohemia.
This reversal of alliances was sealed by the marriage of Maria Theresa's youngest daughter, Marie Antoinette, to the future Louis XVI of France.
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 History of Austria
The dukedom in the House of Agilolfing was primarily heriditary.
Between 976 and 1246, the Duchy of Austria was one of extensive feudal possessions of the Babenberg family - possibly descended from, or succeeded, a powerful Franconian family of the 9th century, from whose castle the city of Bamberg probably took its name.
From the late 13th century, the rise of Austria is closely associated with the rise of the House of Habsburg.
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 Maria Theresa of Austria Summary
Bohemia and Austria were placed under a combined ministry, and the Provincial Estates were, insofar as possible, deprived of their authority or at least circumvented.
She was Archduchess of Austria, and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia and ruler of other territories from 1740 until her death.
Her Royal Highness Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia was the eldest daughter of Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and Charles VI, whose sole male heir - his son Leopold Johann - died as an infant in 1716.
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 TED Case Study Template
It is easily observed that Austria belongs to the reagion with the lowest water use intensity, whereas most of the rest of Europe is in the middle range and some Southern countries are even at the highest end of water abstraction in relation to availability of resources.
Recently a new emphasis is being placed on karst rocks and caves research because scientists have recognized the importance of the state of those rocks for the quality of spring water.
In the Austria water case possible liberalization of water markets and water trade has to be seen in the framework of EU legislation.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Albert
He was a son of Godfrey III, Count of Louvain, and brother of Henry I, Duke of Lorraine and Brabant, and was chosen Bishop of Liège in 1191 by the suffrages of both people and chapter.
His body reposed at Rheims until 1612, when it was transferred by the Archduke Albert of Austria to the church of the Carmelite convent, which he had just founded at Brussels.
The relics of this strenuous defender of ecclesiastical liberty were, by permission of the Holy See, shared with the cathedral of Liège, in 1822.
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 War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-18 October 1748
War triggered by the accession of Maria Theresa to the vast Habsburg lands centred on Austria after the death of her father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI.
The war now turned, and in 1742 Austria invaded Bavaria, the Prussians withdrew from the war in return for Silessia, and the French were forced into a retreat ended by defeat at the battle of Dettingen (27 June 1743).
Charles VII died in 1745, pulling Bavaria out of the war, but the French were victorious at the battle of Fontenoy (11 May 1745), defeating a combined British and Austrian army and in combination with the second Jacobite revolt, ended Britain's direct military intervention on the continent.
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 The Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece
Francis had been proclaimed Emperor of Austria in 1804 and, by artful political maneuvering (in which he was aided by the considerable skills of his long-serving prime minister Clement, 2nd Prince of Metternich-Winneburg), managed to hold much of his disparate Empire together, eventually only losing the Belgian Netherlands following the Congress of Vienna of 1814-15.
Married to Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma, who survived him for sixty-seven years (she died in 1989), he was a deeply religious and spiritual man who was ill-prepared for the task of saving the unity of the Habsburg Empire or his various Crowns.
Having been forced to renounce the exercise of government in Austria (without abdicating as Emperor on 11 November 1918), and as King of Hungary two days later, he was declared deposed by the new republican government and expelled from Austria in April 1919.
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 Germany in the Late Middle Ages - Knox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Albert of Austria elected King of the Romans
Albert dies; succeeded as King of Hungary by Vladislav of Poland (-1444)
Albert of Brandenburg is invaded by Matthias of Hungary, the Teutonic Knights, Pomerania, and the Hanse, but he defeats them all
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 St. Albert of Louvain - Catholic Online
Lothair was excommunicated and exiled for his role in the denial of Albert as the true bishop of Liege.
Albert's body was taken to the cathedral of Reims, where it reposed until 1612.
Then Archduke Albert of Austria had the remains transferred to the chapel of the new Carmelite convent he had founded in Brussels.
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 Central Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Western civilization owes an enormous debt to Janos Hunyadi; when Sultan Mohammed II sought to capitalize on his conquest of Constantinople by a campaign through the Balkans and into central Europe, Hunyadi stopped him cold at the seige of Belgrade (1456), with a mixed force of professional troops and untrained levies.
They long served Austria and the Empire and were raised to the status of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1608.
To Switzerland thereafter (Bellinzona district to 1798, Canton of Lugano 1798-1803, Canton of Ticino from 1803.)
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