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The history of Austria covers the history of Austria and its predecessor states. In the late Iron Age Austria was occupied by people of the Hallstatt Celtic culture (c. 800 BC), they first organized as a Celtic kingdom referred to by the Romans as Noricum, dating from c. 800 to 400 BC.
History of Austria, a survey of the important events and people in the history of Austria from ancient times to the present. In the territories of Austria, the first traces of human settlement date from the Lower Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age).
The history of Austria stretches back to the late Iron Age when it was inhabited by the Hallstatt Celtic culture around 800 BCE. These Celtic groups organized themselves into a kingdom known as Noricum, which flourished until Roman expansion. In the late 1st century BCE, Rome annexed Noricum, integrating the territory south of the Danube into ...
Geographical and historical treatment of Austria, including maps and statistics as well as a survey of its people, economy, and government.
Austria, as a unified state, emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium, first as a frontier march of the Holy Roman Empire, it then developed into a duchy in 1156, and was made an Archduchy in 1453.
History of Austria - First Republic and the Anschluss: On October 21, 1918, the 210 German members of the Reichsrat of Austria formed themselves into the National Assembly for German-Austria, and on October 30 they proclaimed this an independent state under the direction of the State Council (Staatsrat), composed of the leaders of the three ...
This is a timeline of Austrian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Austria and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Austria
A chronology of key events: 1918 - End of the Hapsburg empire. 1919 - Treaty of St Germain defines Austria's boundaries. 1934 - Government crushes Socialist uprising. All political parties ...
Modern Age. Over the centuries that followed Albert’s successors wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire with only short interruptions. The House of Habsburg used skilful marital policies to expand its territory, adding Burgundy and the Netherlands, and also ruling Spain.
The story of Austria blends, from 1556, with that of a wider Austrian empire. This empire, ruled from Vienna, includes many long-established German-speaking Habsburg territories and two important kingdoms acquired in the early 16th century - Bohemia and Hungary .