Austria

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Austria
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History

• Occupied by various Celtic tribes in pre-Roman
  times
• Part of the Roman Empire until 476
• Conquered by Charles the Great in 788
• Given to Leopold of Babenberg in 976
• First record of the name Austria in 996
• Ruled by the House of Habsburg from 1282 until
  1918
• Downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after WWI
• Occupied by Germany from 1938 until 1945
• Occupied by the Allied Forces until 1955
• Member of the EU since 1995

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Geography
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Facts

• Capitol Vienna
• Population 8,300,000
• Size 83,872km2
• Language German
• Religion Catholic
• 65 covered with Mountains (the Alps)

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People

• Music (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn,
  Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Johann Strauss
  Sr. and Jr., ...)
• Science (Ludwig Boltzmann, Christian Doppler,
  Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, Kurt Gödel,
  Sigmund Freud, ...)
• Literature (Franz Kafka, Elfriede Jelinek, ...)
• Others (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Adolf Hitler)

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Linz
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Landstrasse
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Danube
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Johannes Kepler University
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St. Marys Cathedral
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Klangwolke
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Pöstlingberg
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Hauptplatz (Main Square)
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Christmas Market