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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. At the end of the 1st century BC, the lands south of the ...
Internet TLD. .at. Austria, [ e ] formally the Republic of Austria, [ f ] is a 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.
According to the 2001 census, there were 6,273 Romani speakers in Austria, or less than 0.1% of the population. Estimations count between 10,000 and 25,000. [ 2] A more recent estimation count between 40,000 and 50,000 Romani people or about 0.5%. [ 3] Most indigenous Romani people in Austria belong to the Burgenland- Roma group in East-Austria.
Austria-Romania relations refer to the diplomatic relations between Austria and Romania, which were established on September 23, 1878. [citation needed] Austria, in the form of Cisleithania, a constituent and the dominant part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was the first country to recognize Romania's independence from Turkey, at the time the Ottoman Empire.
Carnuntum. Carnuntum (from Ancient Greek Καρνοῦς (Carnous) according to Ptolemy) was a Roman legionary fortress (Latin: castra legionis) and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD. After the 1st century, it was capital of the Pannonia Superior province.
Noricum (/ ˈnɒrɪkəm /) is the Latin name for the kingdom or federation of tribes [1] that included most of modern Austria and part of Slovenia. In the first century AD, it became a province of the Roman Empire.
1: Territories of Austria and Bohemia only. The Austrian Empire, [ a ] officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs. During its existence, it was the third most populous monarchy in Europe after the Russian Empire and the United ...
Due to Romania's unfavorable location between the Russian Empire and Kingdom of Bulgaria as well as King Carol I of Romania's German heritage, Romania had a secret treaty of alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary since 1883. When the war began in 1914, King Carol I summoned an emergency midnight council where he revealed the secret treaty of ...