When Austria became a member of the European Union, the Austrian variety of the German language — limited to 23 agricultural terms — was " protected " in Protocol No 10, regarding the use of specific Austrian terms of the German language in the framework of the European Union, which forms part of the Austrian EU accession treaty.

With the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797, its possessions in eastern Adriatic became subject to a dispute between France and Austria.

With the size of his imperial realm significantly reduced, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor became Francis I, Emperor of Austria.

The title of Emperor of Austria and the associated Empire were both abolished at the end of the First World War in 1918, when German Austria became a republic and the other kingdoms and lands represented in the Imperial Council established their independence or adhesion to other states.

He became duke of Inner Austria as Frederick V upon his father's death in 1424.

This gave rise to the saying " Let others wage wars, but you, happy Austria, shall marry ", which became a motto of the dynasty.

Hayek lived in Austria, Great Britain, the United States and Germany, and became a British subject in 1938.

However, after 1919 titles of nobility were banned by law in Austria, and the " von Hayek " family became simply the Hayek family.

Unwilling to return to Austria after the Anschluss brought it under the control of Nazi Germany in 1938, Hayek remained in Britain and became a British subject in 1938.

By the turn of the 19th century they became new powers, having divided Poland between them, with Sweden and Turkey having experienced substantial territorial losses to Russia and Austria respectively as well as pauperisation.

Austria became a separate duchy by virtue of the Privilegium Minus in 1156.

After the Peace of Hubertsburg in 1763 between Austria, Prussia and Saxony, Prussia became a European great power.

He became afraid to act when the Catholic Church was forcibly reasserting control in Austria and Hungary and the Protestant princes became upset over this.

Rudolph had become King of Germany / Holy Roman Emperor in 1273, and the dynasty of the House of Habsburg was truly entrenched in 1276 when Rudolph became sovereign ruler of Austria, which the Habsburgs ruled for the next six centuries.

Not a maritime power, and not a nation-state, as it became one, Germany's participation in Western imperialism was negligible until the late 19th century and the participation of Austria was primarily as a result of Habsburg control of the First Empire, the Spanish throne, and other royal houses.

During his career, Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, Austria, where he became an associate of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg.

On 21 December 1865 he was chosen vice-president of the diet, and in March 1866 became president of the sub-committee appointed by the parliamentary commission to draw up the Composition ( commonly known as the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ) between Austria and Hungary, of which the central idea, that of the " Delegations ," originated with him.

When Germany annexed Austria, Gödel automatically became a German citizen at age 32.

In 1742 most of Silesia, including Liegnitz, became part of the Kingdom of Prussia after King Frederick the Great's defeat of Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession.

The Heimwehr ( German: Home Defense ) became affiliated with the Christian Social Party and the Republikanischer Schutzbund ( German: Republican Defense League ) became affiliated with the Social Democratic Workers ' Party of Austria.

Billy Kidd, part Abenaki from Vermont, became the first American male to medal in alpine skiing in the Olympics, taking silver at age 20 in the slalom in the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. Six years later at the 1970 World Championships, Kidd won the gold medal in the combined event and took the bronze medal in the slalom.

Provoked, Austria called for the aid of other German states, who quickly became involved in the Austro-Prussian War.

This epithet was given to Apollo in parts of Gaul, Northern Italy and Noricum ( part of modern Austria ).

* Altenberg in Tulln near Vienna, part of Sankt Andrä-Wördern in Lower Austria

Austria underwent a political coup that made it part of the Third Reich ; France had been invaded and Italy was a fascist regime.

* 1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

On the other hand, Finland and Austria joined the Eurozone from the beginning although their currencies were not part of the ECU basket ( since they had joined the EU in 1995, two years after the ECU composition was " frozen ").

Mussolini also mobilized a part of the Italian army on the Austrian border and threatened Hitler with war in the event of a German invasion of Austria to thwart the putsch.

Then he announced to the world: " The independence of Austria, for which he has fallen, is a principle that has been defended and will be defended by Italy even more strenuously ", and then replaced in the main square of Bolzano the statue of Walther von der Vogelweide, a Germanic troubadour, with that of Drusus, a Roman general who conquered part of Germany.

In May 2006 he brought in a bill that would allow the region of South Tyrol to hold a referendum, where the local electorate could decide whether to remain within the Republic of Italy, take independence, or become part of Austria again.

This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora.

That same year, Austria was unified with Nazi Germany in the Anschluss, and the Munich Agreement gave Nazi Germany control over the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia.

This stimulated a vast network of extraction and supply, which formed part of royal monopolies in southern Germany and Austria.

Its boundaries are now often limited only to its southern, smaller part controlled throughout the 19th century by Austria as western Galicia.

* In Austria, a municipality ( Gemeinde ) is part of a district ( Bezirk ), which is in turn part of a state ( Bundesland ).

In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it ( the Innviertel ).

* 1920 – The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.

The affair had a lasting influence on Austria, since part of the money from King Richard's ransom was used by Duke Leopold V to finance the founding in 1194 of the new city of Wiener Neustadt, which had a significant role in various periods of subsequent Austrian history up to the present.

The Alternative Elfstedentocht races take part in other countries, such as Austria, Finland or Canada, and all top marathon skaters, as well as thousands of recreative skaters, travel from the Netherlands to the location where the race is held.

The province became part of the Bohemian Crown under the Holy Roman Empire, and passed with that crown to the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria in 1526.

Some European countries were part of the non-aligned movement and a few were and are very prosperous, including Switzerland and Austria.

Britain was part of the Triple Entente with France and Russia, which confronted the Central Powers of Germany, Austria and Italy.