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  History of Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Austria's performance in the war was distinctly unimpressive, and the expense involved led to further resistance.
The Emperor's daughter, Marie Louise, was married to Napoleon, and Austria contributed an Army to Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812.
Austria joined the European Union in 1995, and Austria was set on the track towards joining the Eurozone, which it did in 2002.
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Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec IPA: /gra.deʦ/), with a population of 285,470 as of 2006 (of which 248,146 have principal residence status), is the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German).
Following the defeat of Austria by Napoleonic forces at the Battle of Wagram in 1809, the fortifications were demolished using explosives, as stipulated in the Peace of Schönbrunn of the same year.
Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria had 20,000 Protestant books burned in the square of what is now a mental hospital, and succeeded in returning Styria to the authority of the Holy See.
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 Premium Plus Sports - Ironman Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Austria is located in the South-East of Central Europe.
Austria lies within the Central European climatic zone, though the Eastern part of the country has a Continental Pannonian climate.
For active holidaymakers Austria features a wide variety of distraction to choose from, when you want to gain new strength and energy from your adventures and activities.
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 WHKMLA : Historical Dictionary, Austria, by Period (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Jews residing in Austria were exposed to restrictions affecting their economic activities, their residences, their religious activities, even had to subject to a dress code intending to brand them as outcasts of society (yellow patch, mandatory since 1551).
The March Ostarichi (Austria, Österreich) was reestablished in 955, ruled by the Babenberg Dynasty 976-1246, by the Przemyslid Dynasty until 1282, by the Habsburg Dynasty from 1282 to 1918.
Austria regained Salzburg in 1815; in 1918 S. became one of the States of the Republic of Austria.
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 Austria Tourist Attractions & Austria Tourism | iExplore.com
Austria is a country of startling contrasts, from the Austrian Alps in the west to the Danube Basin in the east.
Austria lends itself to walking, cycling and climbing as well as skiing, with an extensive network of hiking and mountain routes carefully signposted and cross-referenced to detailed maps.
Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), to the north and west of Vienna, is the largest Federal Province, encompassing stark mountain scenery, the Alpine foothills, the Danube Valley and the hilly country north of the Danube with its meadows, lakes and ponds.
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - CARINTHIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The laws regulating the condition of the Austrian Jews were also in force in those districts that were included in the territory of Carinthia and that belonged to the archbishop of Salzburg, the bishop of Bamberg, the counts of Görz and Ortenburg, and others.
The Church in Inner Austria was never hostile to the Jews.
Jewish taxes in Inner Austria are recorded in the "Rationalia" (Rent-Books) of the Austrian dukes in the years 1326-38.
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After World War II Austria and Czechoslovakia joined two opposing projects of European economic integration, which for a long period of time disconnected the most developed and inter-linked areas of the Habsburg Monarchy before they were to meet again as competitors on the world-market in 1990.
Between 1924 and 1937 Czechoslovak exports to Austria and the other successor states of the Monarchy fell from 40,3 % (1924) to 35,1 % (1929) and 29,9 % (1937). Textiles were particularly affected by this loss in market shares and, as a consequence, hence loosing their dominant position in the Czechoslovak economy.
Austria was confronted with the major task of overcoming this transformation, which, apart from economic also had social, and political implications.
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 Austria Trains
Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy consisting of nine federal states and is one of two European countries that have declared their everlasting neutrality.
Further Austria (in German: Vorderösterreich or ''die Vorlande'') was the collective name for the old possessions of the Habsburgs in south-western Germany (Swabia), the Alsace, and in Vorarlberg after the focus of the Habsburgs had moved to Austria.
Further Austria was comprised of the Sundgau (southern Alsace) and the Breisgau east of the Rhine (including Freiburg im Breisgau after 1386) and included some scattered territories throughout Swabia, the larget being the margravate Burgau in the area of Augsburg and Ulm.
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 Graz, Austria
Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec, pronounced grah-dets), with a population of 305,000 (council census 2000) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German).
Following the defeat of Austria by Napoleonic forces at the Battle of Wagram in 1809, the fortifications were demolished using explosives, as stipulated in the peace terms of 1815.
Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria had 20,000 Protestant books burned in the square of what is now a mental hospital, and succeeded in returning Styria to the authority of Rome.
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 Inner Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
'''Inner Austria''' (German Innerösterreich) is a term used from the late 14th to the 16th century referring to Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and assorted smaller Habsburg possessions in bordering the area.
After a reunification around 1500 when all lines but the Inner Austrian one went extinct, the Habsburg lines were split up again in 1564 among the children of Emperor Ferdinand I.
The Inner Austrian line founded by Archduke Charles II prevailed again, when his son and successor as regent of Inner Austria became Emperor as Ferdinand II and King of Bohemia and Hungary in 1620.
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The latter usually originated from those regions which belonged to Austria in the eighteenth century: Linen and woollen cloth weavers came from the Austrian Netherlands, Emperor Franz Stephan imported Lorraine specialists for the imperial goblin works, Swabia was sending barchent weavers and Viennese silk artisans were of Italian origin.
Manufactured woollen exports amounted to a total of 10.565 tons, 52% of which were sold in Austria, 14% in Hungary, 14% in Germany, 4% in Yugoslavia and 3% in Poland. Textiles accounted for 85% of total Czech imports in the Balkan states in 1920/21.
Between 1924 and 1937 Czechoslovak exports to Austria and the other successor states of the Monarchy fell from 40.3% (1924) to 35.1% (1929) and 29.9% (1937). Textiles were particularly affected by this loss in market shares and, as a consequence, hence loosing their dominant position in the Czechoslovak economy.
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 Ernest, Duke of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After the death of his father Leopold III, Duke of Inner Austria, whose third son he was, in the Battle of Sempach in 1386, he stood under the guardianship of Albert III, and in 1401 accompanied the German King Ruprecht on his campaign in Italy.
As the ruler of Inner Austria and the founder of the older Styrian Line of the Habsburg family, which, by his son Duke Frederick V survived the Albertinian-Austrian and the Tyrolean Lines, he became the ancestor of all later Habsburg emperors.
Duke of Inner Austria (Styria, Carinthia and Carniola)
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 Charles II of Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
'''Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria''' (born June 3, 1540 in Vienna; died July 10, 1590 in Graz) was an Archduke of Austria and Regent of Inner Austria from the House of Habsburg from 1564.
As the Inner Austrian line had to bear the major burden of the wars against the Turks, the fortress of Karlovac (''Karlstadt'') in Croatia was founded.
Anna of Austria, married to Sigismund III of Poland
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 Macdonald And Prince Eugene, The Battle Of The Piave, 1809
Austria had been mobilizing for some time and despite early warnings, the emperor was caught off guard when Archduke Charles invaded Bavaria in early April.
The Army of Inner Austria destined for Italy was under the command of the Archduke John, the younger brother of Charles and the Emperor Francis.
Arnold, Napoleon Conquers Austria, 100; Sorbier had been an artillerist since 1782 and was destined to command the Imperial Guard reserve artillery at Smolensk and Borodino during the 1812 campaign in Russia.
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 Carinthia, Austria
Carinthia (Kärnten), Austria's most southerly province, lies in a basin entirely surrounded by mountains and watered throughout almost its whole length by the Drau, of which most of the other streams are tributaries.
Its mild climate, which at times seems almost southerly, is due to its situation south of the main chain of the Alps, which keeps off the cold air masses from the north.
Soon afterwards Carinthia was combined with neighboring territories to form the province of Inner Austria.Until the beginning of the modern period the chief town of Carinthia was St Veit an der Glan.
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 Leopold IV, Duke of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Duke Leopold IV of Austria, Duke of Further Austria (born 1371; died June 3, 1411 in Vienna) was an Austrian Habsburg Duke of the Leopoldinian Line.
His eldest brother Duke William of Inner Austria took him as his effective co-ruler, putting him in particular charge of Further Austria, which also meant ancestral Habsburg lands in Swiss Aargau etc. Leopold was to face Swiss opposition to Austrian administration.
From 1391 onwards, he was the effective ruler of Further Austria, and from 1396 to 1406 he was ruler in Tyrol too.
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Graz is the second-largest city in Austria, with a population of around 245,000.
During 15th century Graz became the capital of inner Austria (refering to Styria,Carinthia and Carniola) under the rule of the Habsburgs.
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The fidgety Moravian ruler, Prince Svatopluk, was enormously influential in the Carantanian Eastern region (Austria).
The Carantanians, situated in the Eastern Alps (present-day Austria), arose after the decline of the Roman Empire in 476 in territory of the Roman province of Inner Noricum.
The latter is symbolized by a circle in the centre of the cross.
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 WHKMLA : History of Inner Austria 1619-1740
In 1619 Emperor Matthias died, and he was succeeded by Ferdinand II., hitherto Archduke of Styria etc. Thus Inner Austria again was integrated into the complex of Habsburg Austrian territories.
After, the Habsburg Dynasty chose Vienna as their main residence; the Inner Austrian territories were reduced to provinces, securely under the control of the central administration.
The Habsburg-Ottoman Wars of 1663-1664 and of 1683-1699 again affected Inner Austria; after 1684 the Ottoman menace was banned, and with it Inner Austria's function as a defensive bulwork of the Empire.
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Austria 2.6, Yellow head, pale greenish-blue hat, red stem w/yellow inner sleeve.
Austria 3.9, blue stem, milky opaque inner stem.
Austria 2.6, blue stem w/pale yellow inner sleeve.
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His research interests include town planning and its implications for the built environment in Inner Asia, and his work has focused on the cities of Ulan-Ude and Tashkent in particular.
In 1999 a subscription journal Inner Asia was first published for the MIASU by White Horse Press.
Inner Asia is published twice a year alongside our 'Inner Asia Book Series' and from 2005 publication will transfer to Global Oriental Ltd. who specialize in publications on Japan and Asia.
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 WHKMLA : History of Inner Austria 1564-1619
Emperor Ferdinand I. died in 1564; while his son Maximilian succeeded as Archduke of Austria proper, as Emperor and as nominal king of Hungary and Croatia, his son Charles (Karl) inherited Inner Austria, comprising of Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Gorizia and Triest.
Archduke Charles and the estates of the Inner Austrian lands demanded the continuation of the subsidies, the appointment of Archduke Charles as in charge of the defense of the Croatian defense, and the centralization of military command.
In the course of the latter, the young Lutheran church of Inner Austria was thoroughly uprooted, and the estates were reduced to insignificance.
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His brother, Charles II., the proper ruler of Inner Austria, ful filled still less the expectations of the Protestants, but he was powerless against the growth of the new religious spirit.
A church order binding for all Protestants of Inner Austria was drawn up and, with the concessions of the archduke, was regarded by the Protestants as a charter which would protect them against all future persecutions.
In Munich there took place in Oct., 1579, a discussion in which the principles for carrying on the Counterreformation in Inner Austria were laid down.
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 Civilization.ca - Imperial Austria: Treasures of Art, Arms and Armor from Styria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Military Developments under Archduke Karl II Portrait of Archduke Karl II of Inner Austria, by Martino Rota, 1576; Joanneum Graz, Alte Galerie.
During the 16th century, Austria was almost constantly in a state of war.
The defeat of Hungary and death of King Ludwig II at the battle of Mohács in 1526 meant that Austria faced the Turkish threat in the east alone.
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 Hapsburgs
Ferdinand I of Austria and Hungary served as Emperor of Austria (1835-48) and King of Hungary (1830-48).
Duke of Austria, Styria, and Carniola, son of Duke Albrecht II of Austria and Johanna of the Palatinate
Archduke of Austria-Tyrol, Bischof of Passau and Strassburg, son of Archduke Karl II of Inner Austria and Maria of Bavaria
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 Austria Mountain :: Austria Mountain - Most of the islands are plateaus and eruptions of underlying mountain systems.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Austria Mountain :: Austria Mountain - Most of the islands are plateaus and eruptions of underlying mountain systems.
The country one Mountain Austria planning to travel to also leaves a great mark on the traveler's diary.
It has nice beaches of crushed coral and white or pink sand and the water at the shore is a turn blue.
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 Habsburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rulers of Austria (as dukes 1282–1453, archdukes 1453–1804, and emperors 1804–1918),
He was duke of Inner Austria from 1424 on.
Maria Theresa of Austria, Habsburg heiress and wife of emperor Francis I Stephen, reigned as Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia 1740 - 1780.
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