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Austria is credited in popular legend with introducing coffee to Europe after bags of coffee beans were left behind by the retreating Turkish army after the Battle of Vienna in 1683. Although the first coffeehouses had appeared in Europe some years earlier, the Viennese café tradition became an important part of the city's identity.
Since Austria straddles the Alps, it is a prime location for skiing. Austria is the leading nation in the Alpine Skiing World Cup (consistently winning the largest number of points of all countries) and also strong in many other winter sports such as ski jumping. Austria's national ice hockey team ranks 13th in the world.
Wiener schnitzel, a traditional Austrian dish. Wiener schnitzel (/ ˈ v iː n ər ˈ ʃ n ɪ t s əl / VEE-nər SHNIT-səl; German: Wiener Schnitzel [ˈviːnɐ ˈʃnɪtsl̩] ⓘ, 'Viennese cutlet'), sometimes spelled Wienerschnitzel, is a type of schnitzel made of a thin, breaded, pan-fried veal cutlet.
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Apfelstrudel, a Viennese speciality. Viennese cuisine is the cuisine that is characteristic of Vienna, Austria, and a majority of its residents.Viennese cuisine is often treated as equivalent to Austrian cuisine, but while elements of Viennese cuisine have spread throughout Austria, other Austrian regions have their own unique variations.
Austria, [d] formally the Republic of Austria, [e] is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. [13] It is a federation of nine states , one of which is the capital, Vienna , the most populous city and state.
Vienna (/ v i ˈ ɛ n ə / ⓘ vee-EN-ə; [9] [10] German: Wien ⓘ; Austro-Bavarian: Wean) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants.
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