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national capital, Austria
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Also known as: Bécs, Videň, Vindobona, Wenia, Wien, Wienis
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Blake Ehrlich
Author of Paris on the Seine; London on the Thames.
Blake Ehrlich,
Roland John Hill
Former London Correspondent, Die Presse (Vienna) and Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, West Germany.
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Vienna, city and Bundesland (federal state), the capital of Austria. Of the country’s nine states, Vienna is the smallest in area but the largest in population. Modern Vienna has undergone several historical incarnations. From 1558 to 1918 it was an imperial city—until 1806 the seat of the Holy Roman Empire and then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1918 it became the capital of the truncated, landlocked central European country that emerged from World War I as a republic. From 1938 to 1945 Austria was a part of Adolf Hitler’s “Greater” Germany, and Vienna became “Greater” Vienna, reflecting the ...(100 of 6675 words)

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