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Vienna, Austria |
 | | Vienna (Wien), capital of the Republic of Austria, lies at the foot of the Wienerwald (Vienna Woods),the northeasterly foothills of the Alps, on the banks of the Danube, which here emerges, up to 285m/310yds wide, into the Vienna basin and some 50km/30mi downstream enters Slovakia at Bratislava. |
 | | In 1806, during the reign of Francis I, Vienna ceased to be capital of the Holy Roman Empire. |
 | | Vienna's place in German literature is ensured by such figures as Walther von der Vogelweide, the 17th C. preacher Abraham a Sancta Clara and the 19th C. dramatists Ferdinand Raimund, Johann Nestroy and Franz Grillparzer. |
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