In parts of Austria, Bavaria and German-speaking Switzerland it is called Ostereiertitschen or Eierpecken.

Germany's Anschluss of Austria and annexation of German-speaking Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia in 1938 and a return of territory from Czechoslovakia to Hungary as a result of the First Vienna Award are perhaps historical examples of this idea in practice.

During the following centuries, Bavarian settlers went down the Danube and up the Alps, a process through which Austria was to become the mostly German-speaking country it is today.

In 1939, Hitler and Mussolini agreed to give the German-speaking population of South Tyrol a choice ( the South Tyrol Option Agreement ): they could emigrate to neighbouring Germany ( including annexed Austria ) or stay in Italy and accept their complete Italianisation.

Within the European Union, the German term Weinbrand is legally equivalent to the English term " brandy ", but outside the German-speaking countries it is particularly used to designate brandy from Austria and Germany.

There are many places in Europe, most notably in France, Italy, and the German-speaking countries ( Germany, Switzerland, Austria ) where the model of EMS is different, and physicians take a more direct, ' hands-on ' approach to pre-hospital care.

Styria's population before World War I was 68 % German-speaking, 32 % Slovene, bordered on ( clockwise ) Lower Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Carniola, Carinthia, Salzburg, and Upper Austria.

However, in the Tirol, an integral part of Austria which was mostly German-speaking, the southern part, the province of Trento, was exclusively Italian-speaking.

Today, peoples from countries with a German-speaking majority or significant German-speaking population groups other than Germany, such as Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg, have developed their own national identity and usually do not refer to themselves as " Germans " in a modern context.

As German nationalism grew strongly inside of the German Confederation and neither of them could decide on how Germany was going to be unified into a nation-state, the Austrians were favouring the Greater Germany unification but were not willing to give up any of the German-speaking land inside of the Austrian Empire and take second place to Prussia, the Prussians on the other hand wanted to unify Germany as Little Germany primarily by the Kingdom of Prussia whilst excluding Austria.

There Renner had to accept that this new Austria was prohibited any political association with Germany and he had to accept the loss of German speaking South Tyrol and the German-speaking parts of Bohemia and Moravia where he himself was born ; this forced him to give up his share in the parental farm if he, " the peasant proprietor who turned Marxist ", wanted to remain an Austrian government officer.

In Germany and German-speaking countries like Austria, the term Unteroffizier ( meaning: " Lower Officer " or Sub-Officer ) describes a class of ranks between normal enlisted personnel ( Mannschaften or in Austria: Chargen ) and officers ( Offiziere ).

Of all the German-speaking countries Switzerland has however retained its ability to use dialect in everyday situations, also a commonplace phenomenon in southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Alsace, and South Tyrol.

The 1996 spelling reform was based on an international agreement signed by the governments of the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland ; but acceptance of the reform was limited.

Lye pretzels are popular in southern Germany, Alsace, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland as a variety of bread, a side dish or a snack, and come in many local varieties.

In the Low Countries and German-speaking Europe this position was known as baljuw ( from bailli ), but other words were used such as schout " reeve, ( medieval ) bailiff " ( Holland, Antwerp, Mechelen ,'s-Hertogenbosch, Turnhout ), meier " majordomo " ( Asse, Leuven ), drossāte " steward, seneschal " ( other parts of Brabant ), amman ( Brussels ), and Amtmann and Ammann ( Germany, Switzerland, Austria ).

* The German-speaking nations ( Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland ) established national, normative spelling usages for their respective varieties of the language by statute with the German orthography reform of 1996.

* Should the new united Germany include the German-speaking areas of Austria and thus separate these territories constitutionally from the remaining areas of the Habsburg Empire (" greater German solution ", Großdeutschland ), or should it exclude Austria, with leadership falling to Prussia (" smaller German solution ", Kleindeutschland )?

The reform was based on an international agreement signed in Vienna in July 1996 by the governments of the German-speaking countries of Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

On July 1, 1996, all of the German states ( Bundesländer ), and the countries of Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, as well as some other countries with German-speaking minorities ( but notably not Luxembourg ) agreed to introduce the new spelling by August 1, 1998.

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

** Central Austro-Bavarian ( along the main rivers Isar and Danube, spoken in the northern parts of the State of Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and the Northern Burgenland )

The people of Graz, the capital of Styria, speak yet another dialect which is not very Styrian and more easily understood by people from other parts of Austria than other Styrian dialects, for example from western Styria.

* Austro-Bavarian, a group of closely related dialects of German, spoken in parts of Bavaria, most of Austria and the Alto Adige / Südtirol

Nazi Germany's aggressive foreign policy took control of Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia, and its invasion of Poland initiated the Second World War.

The Danube also flows through parts of Germany, Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, Serbia, and Romania. It is navigable within Hungary for 418 kilometers.

The Danube also flows through parts of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Serbia, and Romania.

Various types of hammered dulcimers are traditionally played in India, Iran, Southwest Asia, China, and parts of Southeast Asia, Central Europe ( Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland ( particularly Appenzell ), Austria and Bavaria ), the Balkans, Eastern Europe ( Ukraine and Belarus ) and Scandinavia.

Leaders and members of Unitas Fratrum were forced to choose to either leave the many and varied southeastern principalities of what was the Holy Roman Empire ( mainly Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia and parts of Germany and its many states ), or to practice their beliefs secretly.

* Three Wise Men Day, or Epiphany, in Latin America, Spain, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, and is, although not celebrated as widely or in the same way as in countries with a Spanish history, an official holiday in many European countries, for example Austria, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Liechtenstein, Slovakia and Croatia, as well as in parts of Germany and Switzerland.

* Reversion of all German annexations in Europe, including Sudetenland, Alsace-Lorraine, Austria, and the westernmost parts of Poland

The first 356 was road certified in Austria on June 8, 1948, and used many Volkswagen parts for manufacturing economy.

He helped organize Kristallnacht, a series of co-ordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9 – 10 November 1938.

In parts of Flanders and some parts of the Netherlands and most areas of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, children go to houses with home made beet lanterns or with paper lanterns ( which can hold a candle or electronic light ), singing songs about St. Martin on St. Martin's Day ( the 11th of November ), in return for treats.

He retained the Spanish overseas empire, but ceded the Southern Netherlands, Naples, Milan, and Sardinia to Austria ; Sicily and parts of the Milanese to Savoy ; and Gibraltar and Minorca to Great Britain.

Observed effects of the eruption include the following anecdotal accounts: dry fog in France ; lunar eclipses in England ; severe winter in Europe ; a " harsh " spring in Northern Iceland ; famine in England, Western Germany, France, and Northern Italy ; and pestilence in London, parts of France, Austria, Iraq, Syria, and South-East Turkey.

To Austria fell Zator and Auschwitz ( Oświęcim ), part of Little Poland embracing parts of the counties of Kraków and Sandomir and the whole of Galicia, less the City of Kraków.

* Greater Alps-The Alps, including modern-day Switzerland and Austria, as well as parts of northern Italy.

R1 and I haplogroups are typical in West European populations while J and E1b1b consist of lineages with differential distribution within Europe which include regions in the parts of France, and Austria.

A very similar mustard, called Krensenf or Meerrettichsenf, is popular in Austria and parts of Eastern Germany.

In Central and Eastern Europe horseradish is called khreyn ( in various spellings like kren ) in many Slavic languages, in Austria, in parts of Germany ( where the other German name Meerrettich isn't used ), in North-East Italy, and in Yiddish ( כריין translitered as khreyn ).