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  AllRefer.com - Lower Austria (Austria Political Geography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lower Austria is the largest of the Austrian provinces, and it borders on the Czech Republic in the north and Slovakia in the east.
Lower Austria was forced to yield land to Vienna in 1938 but recovered much of it during district reorganization in 1954.
The history of Lower Austria coincides with that of Austria.
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 Austria on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In Upper and Lower Austria and in Burgenland, tillage agriculture predominates: the chief crops are potatoes, sugar beets, fruit, barley, rye, and oats.
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.
Austria confronts its dark Nazi past: as a government commission prepares to release an inventory of property stolen from Jews by the Nazis, a new tide of anti-Semitism is sweeping the country.
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 Lower Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Map of Lower Austria showing districts and the four quarters (Waldviertel in green, Weinviertel in red, Mostviertel in yellow and Industrieviertel in blue)
Lower Austria (de: Niederösterreich) is one of the nine states or Bundesländer in Austria.
Lower Austria is divided into four regions: Waldviertel, Mostviertel, Industrieviertel, and Weinviertel.
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 AUSTRIA - LoveToKnow Article on AUSTRIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Several smaller plains are found along the Danube, as the ilner Beckon in Lower Austria, and the Wiener Becken, the plain which the capital is situated; to the north of the Danube this un is called the Marchfeld, and is continued under the name of Marchebene into Moravia as far north as Olmutz.
Austria is distinguished for the number and superiority of its rses, for the improvements of which numerous studs exist all over e country.
The Jews compose 47 % of the)ulation, and are strongest in Galicia, Lower Austria, Bohemia, iravia and Bukovina.
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 Virtual Austria Net: Lower Austria
Lower Austria is the province with the largest area under cultivation, mainly for agriculture and wine-growing.
Lower Austria also produces excellent wines - from the Wachau Valley, the Vienna region, Gumpoldskirchen, Baden and Vöslau - which are much in demand with connoisseurs.
The province of Lower Austria is also of great archaeological and cultural interest; there have been significant finds from the Stone Age, such as the "Venus of Willendorf", and from the Roman period, such as the military camp and town of Carnuntum.
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 Austria - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy consisting of nine federal states and is one of two European countries that have declared their everlasting neutrality, the other being Switzerland.
Austria's capital Vienna is one of Europe's major cities with a population exceeding 1.6 million (2 million with suburbs) and constitutes a melting pot of citizens from all over Central and Eastern Europe.
Austria was the cradle of numerous scientists including physicists Ludwig Boltzmann, Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger, Ernst Mach, Wolfgang Pauli, Richard von Mises and Christian Doppler, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, biologists Gregor Mendel and Konrad Lorenz as well as mathematician Kurt Gödel.
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 Austria
Other places of Lower Austria besides Vienna mentioned in the records of those early years, were two cities on the river Danube, Krems and Melk, in which latter place Elder Jörg Krautschlögel is said to have baptized not less than 400 persons.
In Lower Austria, the most important factor in the vicissitudes of Anabaptism was the close proximity of Moravia.
In fact, a large part of today's Upper Austria, namely, the Inn district, was in the 16th and 17th centuries a part of Bavaria proper (with the area of the cities of Schärding, Braunau, and Ried, all so well known for their Anabaptist activities).
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 Austria Maps 5
Upper Austria (Oberösterreich) extends from the province of Lower Austria to the border with Germany.
Lower Austria (Niederösterreich) is the largest of the nine federal provinces in Austria.
The Semmering Pass and a section of the Danube are contained within the borders of Lower Austria, known as the cradle of the nation.
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 Lower Austria - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lower Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Largest federal state of Austria, bordered by the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the east, Burgenland to the southeast, Styria to the south, and Upper Austria to the west; area 19,174 sq km/7,403 sq mi; population (2001 est) 1,549,600.
To the north of the Danube are the hilly Waldviertal region and the Weinviertal region with its wide valleys, loess soil, and amenable weather.
Lower Austria remained a part of the Habsburg Empire until 1918, when it became a province of the republic of Austria.
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 Schwarzenbach, Lower Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Schwarzenbach (German for fl brook) is a town in the Wiener Neustadt-Land district, Lower Austria, Austria.
Lower Austria is located in the heartland of the nation, and played a key part of Austria history.
Since 1992, archaeological discovery of an old Celtic settlement dating back to the 1st and the 2nd centuries has been excavated.
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 Lower Austria - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Lower Austria, largest of Austria’s nine federal provinces.
Burgenland province in eastern Austria, lying south of the River Danube.
It is bounded on the north by Lower Austria Province, on the east by...
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 Virtual Vienna Net: Austria
Populated since prehistoric times, Austria's location in the heart of Europe means that it has had its share of the continent's historical developments.
Austria is situated in southern Central Europe, covering a part of the eastern Alps and the Danube region and, although land-locked, it borders on the Mediterranean area.
The country has a wide variety of landscape, vegetation and climate, and situated as it is at the heart of a continent, it has always been a junction for communication links between the trade and cultural centers of Europe.
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 Lower Austria : Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), known as "the cradle of Austria's history," is the largest of the nine federal states that make up the country today.
Some 60% of Austria's grape harvest is produced in Lower Austria, from the rolling hillsides of the Wienerwald to the terraces of the Wachau.
Lower Austria is also home to more than a dozen spa resorts, including Baden, the most frequented.
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 Lower Austria
Lower Austria is in the north-east of Austria between the Alps and the Bohemian Massif.
By the end of his reign, Lower Austria was approximately the size it is today.
Vienna was separated from Lower Austria in 1922 and became a province (Bundesland) in its own right, but remained the capital of Lower Austria.
www.eu2006.at /en/Austria/Bundeslaender/Lower_Austria.html   (203 words)

  
 Austrian Press & Information Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As in Upper Austria, this province is traditionally divided into administrative parts or Viertel, such as the Waldviertel and the Weinviertel (the wood and wine areas).
Lower Austria also produces excellent wines from the Wachau Valley, the Vienna area, Gumpoldskirchen, Baden and Vöslau--which are much in demand by connoisseurs.
Lower Austria, which forms the historic core of present/day Austria, is also rich in natural resources and has a highly developed industrial sector.
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 Niederösterreich/Bildung/Bibliotheken+Archive/Niederösterreichisches Landesarchiv/Genealogical Research in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Austria; Southern Tyrol was ceded to Italy 1919
Until 1921 Lower Austria and Vienna formed together one single province called Lower Austria (that is "Niederösterreich" or "Österreich unter der Enns").
In 1922 Lower Austria and Vienna were separated and became two separate provinces of the Federal Republic of Austria.
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 Austria travel guide - Wikitravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Austria (German: Österreich) is a land-locked alpine country in Central Europe bordering with Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west, Germany and Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east and Slovenia and Italy to the south.
Austria is a member of the European Union and the Eurozone.
Austria has many great universities, and Graz in particular is renowned as a center of learning, with no less than six universities.
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 Austria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After the death (1246) of the last Babenberg, King Ottocar II of Bohemia acquired (1251–69) Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola.
The Congress of Vienna (1814–15; see Vienna, Congress of) did not restore to Austria its former possessions in the Netherlands and in Baden but awarded it Lombardy, Venetia, Istria, and Dalmatia.
Overwhelmingly defeated by Prussia at Sadová (Sadowa) in 1866 (see Austro-Prussian War), Austria was forced to cede Venetia to Italy.
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 LOWER AUSTRIA - LoveToKnow Article on LOWER AUSTRIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ic Lower Austria belongs to the watershed of the Danube, which a ith the exception of the Lainsitz, which is a tributary of the st foldau, receives all the other rivers of the province.
In the matter of education, Lower Austria is one of the most advanced provinces of Austria, and 99.8% of the children of school-going age attended school regularly in 1900.
The original archduchy, which included Upper Austria, is the nucleus of the Austrian empire, and the oldest possession of the house of Habsburg in its present dominions.
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 Vienna article - Vienna German capital Austria federal states river Danube Lower Austria - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austria's nine federal states (Bundesland Wien).
It is situated on the river Danube, and is surrounded by the Austrian federal state of Lower Austria.
With a population of about 1.6 millions, Vienna is the largest city and the cultural and political centre of Austria and within a radius of about 300 kilometers.
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 Travel Austria
The history of the Lower Austrian town Heidenreichstein is connected to the Wasserschloss (water castle) in the centre of the town.
Heidenreichstein is located in the upper Waldviertel region of the federal state Lower Austria, and was first mentioned in a document in the year 1205.
The Braunaubach river infront of the centre of Schrems, was the border of Bohemia and Austria in the 12th century.
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 AUSTRIA'S MILLENNIUM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It all started in 996 when Emperor Otto III, in the aftermath of victories over the Hungarians who were expelled from the area, presented the Bishop of Freising in Bavaria with a sizable chunk of land, approximately 2,000 acres, belonging to the Crown in Neuhofen (present-day Lower Austria).
Present-day Austria, especially Lower Austria and Vienna, is celebrating the Millennium.
Dozens of museums and galleries are holding exhibitions reflecting Austria's history; from its art, music, literature to its Jewish culture.
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 AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. N... - Online Information article about AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. N...
population of Lower Austria in 1900 was 3,100,493, which corresponds to 405 inhabitants per sq..
It is, therefore, the most densely populated province of Austria.
Lower Austria sends 64 member.,- to the Imperial Reichsrat at Vienna.
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 Lower Austria
9,123), Lower Austria province, E Austria, on the Schwarza River.
Mayerling - Mayerling, village, Lower Austria prov., E Austria, on the Schwechat River, in the Wienerwald...
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 Lower Austria articles on Encyclopedia.com
Lower Austria is the largest of the Austrian provinces, and it borders on the Czech
With the extinction of the Bavarian line of the house of Wittelsbach on the death of Elector Maximilian Joseph in 1777, the duchy of Bavaria passed to the elector palatine, Charles Theodore, of
The largest state of Germany, Bavaria is bordered by the Czech Republic on the east, by Austria on the southeast and south, by Baden-Württemberg on the west, by Hesse on the
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 Lower Austria - Search Results - MSN Encarta
It is bounded on the north by the province of Niederösterreich (Lower...
Austria: reduction of power of Roman Catholic Church
Oberösterreich, province of Austria, bounded on the north by the Czech Republic, on the east by the province of Niederösterreich (Lower Austria), on...
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 Austria Travel Tips - Austria Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
Vorarlberg is Austria's westernmost province and, with the exception of Vienna, itself a province, the smallest in terms of area.
Lower Austria is the province with the highest percentage of its area under cultivation, most of it by agriculture and wine-growing.
Austria's biggest aluminum plant is situated near Ranshofen, and Lenzing is a major cellulose and synthetic fabrics center.
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 Travel Austria » Lower Austria Places
Göstling is one of the most traditional holiday destinations in Lower Austria and with the Mount Hochkar also the biggest ski area in Lower Austria.
The checkpoint Grametten/Nová Bystřice from Austria to Czech Republic is a lonely melancholic place, where fox and rabbit say “good night”, as we use to say in Austria.
Commonly known as the Manfred Deix Museum because, although the ground floor is open to temporary exhibitions, the upper floor is devoted fully to the works of the most famous cartoonist in Austria, known for his merciless representation of his compatriots.
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