In Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Styria and Carinthia, Most, a type of cider or perry is widely produced, whilst Sturm, a semi-fermented grape-juice is drunk after the grape harvest.

Grüner Veltliner (),, or ) is a variety of white wine grape variety grown primarily in Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

* Bouvier ( grape ), wine-grape variety grown primarily in Austria, Hungary and Slovenia

Zweigelt is a red wine grape variety developed in 1922, at the Federal Institute for Viticulture and Pomology at Klosterneuburg, Austria, by Fritz Zweigelt.

It is now the most widely-grown red grape variety in Austria, as well as having some presence in Canada's vineyards.

The grape is grown across Central Europe, including Austria, Czech Republic ( in particular southern Moravia where it is known as Frankovka ), Germany ( where it is known as Lemberger, or Blauer Limberger ), Slovakia ( where it is known as " Frankovka modrá "), Croatia (" frankovka ") and Slovenia ( known as " modra frankinja ").

It is possible that Blaufränkisch or a similar forerunner of the grape was cultivated in regions of present Austria ( Lower Austria and Burgenland ) already in the 10th century.

In his 1777 publication Beschreibung der in der Wiener Gegend gemeinen Weintrauben-Arten, ampelographer Sebastian Helbling counted the variety as one of the best red grape varieties of Lower Austria, and used the name Schwarze Fränkische for it.

In present-day Austria Blaufränkisch is the second most important red grape variety, and covers 5 % of the vineyards.

The practice of biodynamics in viticulture ( grape growing ) has become popular in recent years in several growing regions, including France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Australia, Chile, South Africa, Canada, and the United States.

The Grüner Veltliner is the dominant grape varietal cultivated in Austria, and the dry white wines produced from this grape have gained international recognition.

The High German languages ( in German, Hochdeutsche Sprachen ) or the High German dialects ( Hochdeutsche Mundarten / Dialekte ) are any of the varieties of standard German, Luxembourgish and Yiddish, as well as the local German dialects spoken in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg and in neighboring portions of Belgium and the Netherlands ( Ripuarian dialects in southeast Limburg ), France ( Alsace and northern Lorraine ), Italy, Denmark, and Poland.

Linguistic research of the different varieties of standard German has for the most part only begun in the 1990s, and especially in Austria and in Switzerland.

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.

* 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.

* Grape varieties in Austria: Grüner Veltliner Austrian Wine Marketing Service

Austria has a long winemaking tradition and produces both white and red varieties.

Of the handful of painters that Austria has produced in the 20th century, only one, Oskar Kokoschka, is widely known in the U.S..

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

* 1837 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sissi, Empress of Austria ( d. 1898 )

When Hungary was given self-government in 1867, the non-Hungarian portions were called the Empire of Austria and were officially known as the " Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council ( Reichsrat )".

From 1713 to 1740, King Frederick William I, also known as the " Soldier King ", established a highly centralized, militarized state with a heavily rural population of about three million ( compared to the nine million in Austria ).

It collapsed because the rivalry between Prussia and Austria ( known as German dualism ), warfare, the 1848 revolution, and the inability of the multiple members to compromise.

The House of Habsburg (; ), also Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and Spanish Empire and several other countries.

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.

* 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi ( Austria in Old High German ).

* Jew's harp: An instrument often known for its historical purpose for men " serenading " their sweethearts, It even went to the extent of being repeatedly banned for its " endangerment on female virtue ", it is also believed that it was banned because of its construction of silver, and due to the great demand on silver in the 19th Century Austria this was another reason for its outlawing.

Most Slovenes lived in the administrative region known as Inner Austria, forming the majority of the population of the Duchy of Carniola and the County of Gorizia and Gradisca, as well as of Lower Styria and southern Carinthia.

Meanwhile Austrian Silesia, the small portion of Silesia retained by Austria after the Silesian Wars, was mostly awarded to the new Czechoslovakia ( becoming known as Czech Silesia ), although most of Cieszyn and territory to the east of it went to Poland ( see Zaolzie ).

The Ländler, also known as the Schleifer, a country dance in 3 / 4 time, was popular in Bohemia, Austria, and Bavaria, and spread from the countryside to the suburbs of the city.

Germany annexes Austria in the event known as the Anschluss.

The " Swabian-Alemannic " Carnival, known as Fastnacht, takes place in Baden and Swabia ( Southwestern Germany ), Switzerland, Alsace and Vorarlberg ( Western Austria ).

This ' Eastern March ' ( borderland ), in German was known as Ostarrîchi or ' Eastern Realm ', hence ' Austria '.

The best known are in the Wachau region, including the sites of the two oldest pieces of art in Austria.

The one known as the marchia orientalis was to become the core territory of Austria and was given to Leopold of Babenberg in 976 after the revolt of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria.

These provinces, together, became known as the Habsburg Hereditary Lands, although they were sometimes all lumped together simply as Austria.

* November 1 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi ( Austria in Old High German ).

After some years of struggle known as the Interregnum, the Duchies of Austria and Styria fell to Otakar II of Bohemia, and subsequently to Rudolph I of Habsburg, whose descendants were to rule Austria until 1918.

** 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 )

* January 30 – Right-wing veterans and the Republican Schutzbund clash in Schattendorf, Burgenland, Austria.

* 3, 965 km < sup > 2 </ sup > — Burgenland, Austria

There is also a cultural partnership with the state of Burgenland, Austria, and a university partnership between the University of Bayreuth and the Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

However, the western parts of Vas, Sopron and Moson counties did join Austria and today forms the Austrian federal state of Burgenland, while Pressburg / Pozsony was awarded to Czechoslovakia.

In climate it is similar to the neighbouring Burgenland wine region in Austria, and several winemakers make wine in both countries.

* Austria ( all states except Burgenland )

Croats migrated towards Austria and the present-day Burgenland Croats are direct descendants of these settlers.

The neo-Gothic parish church of St. Joseph from the beginning of the 20th century was restored as a votive church at the expense of the Croats from Burgenland in Austria.

* Central Bavarian ( along the main rivers Isar and Danube, spoken in Munich ( by 20 % of the people ), Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria, southern Upper Palatinate, the Swabian district of Aichach-Friedberg, the northern parts of the State of Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna ( see Viennese German ) and the Northern Burgenland )

In Austria, Pinot noir is sometimes called Blauburgunder ( literally Blue Burgundy ) and produced in Burgenland and Lower Austria.

Some of the best Austrian Pinots come from Neusiedlersee and Blaufraenkischland, ( Burgenland ) and Thermenregion ( Lower Austria ).

Other examples: In France, jokes about Belgian people, in Quebec, about inhabitants of Drummondville, in Germany, about people of East Frisia, in Austria, about people of the Burgenland state, in Syria, about inhabitants of Homs.

Joseph Joachim was born in Kittsee ( Kopčany / Köpcsény ), near Bratislava and Eisenstadt, in what is today's Burgenland area of Austria.

Born in Nádkút, Vas, Austria-Hungary ( now Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, Austria ).

Spiegl was born near the Hungarian border in the village of Zurndorf, Burgenland, Austria, where his father was a businessman manufacturing among other things carbonated water.

Exceptions are the city of Vienna ( which belonged to the Lower Austria Kronland ) and Burgenland ( which belonged to the kingdom of Hungary, in personal union ).

Eisenstadt (,, ) is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland.

Without plebiscite, the city and the entire Hungarian territory of Burgenland ( with the exception of the city of Sopron where the only plebiscite was held ) was transferred to Austria by the Saint-Germain and Treaties of Trianon in 1921.

In other states, such as Tyrol, Lower Austria, and Burgenland, no explicit right to roam exists and land owners reserve the right to deny access.

* Loretto, Austria, a town in the district of Eisenstadt-Umgebung in Burgenland in Austria