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 Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Austrian federal states of Carinthia and Styria are home to a significant (indigenous) Slovenian minority with around 14,000 members (Austrian census; unofficial numbers of Slovene groups speak of about 40,000).
The Slovenians in the Austrian state of Styria (estimated at a number between 1,600 and 5,000) are not recognized as a minority and do not enjoy special rights, although the State Treaty of July 27, 1955 states otherwise.
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 Cuisine of Austria Encyclopedia Articles @ VariedTastes.com (Varied Tastes)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In Styria, Carinthia and Burgenland the heuriger inns are known as Buschenschanken.
In Lower Austria, local delicacies such as Waldviertel poppies, Marchfeld asparagus and Wachau apricots are cultivated.
Lower Austria is striking for the differences within its regional cuisine due to its size and the variety of its landscape.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bundesländer) are Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Salzburg, Carinthia, Styria, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Burgenland, and Vienna.
In Upper and Lower Austria and in Burgenland, tillage agriculture predominates: the chief crops are potatoes, sugar beets, fruit, barley, rye, and oats.
But economic prosperity was promoted by the lowering of internal tariff barriers, and several reforms dating from 1848 were upheld, notably the complete abolition of feudal dues.
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 Slovenia encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Slovenia politics and officials, Slovenian History. Travel to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Territory in Yugoslavia was quickly divided between German, Italian, and Hungarian control, and the Nazis soon annexed Lower Styria (Untersteiermark) to the "Greater Reich".
To achieve that goal, accommodation had to be made for the Gottschee "settlers" and some 46,000 Slovenians in the Rann Triangle region were forcibly deported to eastern Germany for potential Germanization or forced labor beginning in November 1941.
The Slovenians in the Austrian state of Styria (estimated 2,000) are not recognized as a minority and do not enjoy special rights, although the State Treaty of July 27, 1955 states otherwise.
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