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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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