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Australorp
Australorp, or Australian Black Orpington, an Australian dual-purpose chicken breed developed in the 1920s from Black Orpingtons; holds the laying record of 364 eggs in 365 days and lays 250-300 brown eggs yearly.
Austrasia
Austrasia, the northeastern Merovingian sub-kingdom of the Franks created in 511 under Theuderic I, centered on Metz and the Rhine-Meuse lands; homeland of the Carolingians, preponderant after Tertry (687), divided in 870.
Austria
Austria (Österreich) is a landlocked federal parliamentary republic in Central Europe, capital Vienna, nine states, 9.2 million people. EU member since 1995, neutral since 1955, 86% renewable electricity in 2024, net zero target 2040.
Austria national football team
Austria national football team (Das Team), ÖFB men's side founded 1904; seven World Cups, third place 1954, EURO round of 16 in 2020 and 2024 under Ralf Rangnick, 2026 World Cup round of 32.
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, the Habsburg Dual Monarchy (1867-1918) created by the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (Ausgleich/Kiegyezés), joined self-governing Austrian and Hungarian halves under Franz Joseph with joint foreign, military, and financial affairs, dissolving in November 1918.
Austria3
Austria3 was an Austrian Liedermacher trio of Rainhard Fendrich, Wolfgang Ambros, and Georg Danzer, active from 1997 to 2006 and known as the supergroup of Austropop.
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), founded 14 May 1847 in Vienna by Emperor Ferdinand I; Austria's largest non-university basic research institution, a public-law learned society with two divisions, 26 institutes, over 760 members, renamed from Imperial Academy in 1947.
Austrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines AG is Austria's largest airline, headquartered at its hub at Vienna International Airport. Founded in 1957, it has been part of the Lufthansa Group since 2009.
Austrian Armed Forces
The Austrian Armed Forces (Österreichisches Bundesheer) are Austria's militia-system military, founded by the 1955 Wehrgesetz. Constitutionally neutral and non-NATO, with six-month conscription, about 22,050 active personnel, and a 2027 budget of €5.30 billion.
Austrian Circle
The Austrian Circle (Österreichischer Reichskreis) was one of the Holy Roman Empire's ten Imperial Circles, created in 1512 under Maximilian I to group the Habsburg hereditary lands, lasting until 1806.
Austrian Civil War
The Austrian Civil War (Österreichischer Bürgerkrieg), or February Uprising, was a four-day armed conflict of February 1934 between the socialist Schutzbund and Austrian government forces.
Austrian Concordat of 1855
The Austrian Concordat of 1855 was a treaty between Pope Pius IX and Emperor Franz Joseph I securing Catholic Church rights in Austria, terminated unilaterally in 1870.
Austrian cuisine
Austrian cuisine (Wiener Küche): Habsburg-era national cooking blending Bohemian, Hungarian, Italian and Alpine traditions; schnitzel, Tafelspitz, Mehlspeisen like Sachertorte, coffee houses, Heuriger, and distinct regional dishes across nine federal states.
Austrian Empire
Austrian Empire (Kaisertum Österreich), the Habsburg state proclaimed in 1804 from Holy Roman lands and reorganized by the 1867 Compromise into Austria-Hungary; multinational, constitutionalized after 1848, defeated by Prussia in 1866.
Austrian Football Bundesliga
The Austrian Football Bundesliga (Österreichische Fußball-Bundesliga) is the top division of men's club football in Austria, a twelve-team league founded in 1974 whose titles have been dominated by FC Red Bull Salzburg.
Austrian German
Austrian German (Österreichisches Deutsch) is Austria's national standard variety of German, codified by the Österreichisches Wörterbuch since 1951, marked by Austriacisms like Marille and Erdäpfel, distinct pronunciation, and Bavarian-based dialects.
Austrian Grand Prix
Austrian Grand Prix, Formula One World Championship race at the Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Styria; first run 1964 at Zeltweg, Österreichring 1970-1987, A1-Ring 1997-2003, back since 2014, contracted through 2041.
Austrian literature
Austrian literature (österreichische Literatur) is the literature of Austria and its Habsburg predecessors, chiefly in German, whose separate identity from German literature has long been debated.
Austrian nationalization
Austrian nationalization was the post-1945 transfer of Austrian industry, banking, and electricity into Republic of Austria ownership, begun by the First Nationalization Act of 26 July 1946 and extended to electricity in 1947.
Austrian Nazism
Austrian Nazism: the Nazi movement in Austria demanding union with Germany, realized in the March 1938 Anschluss; 99.73 percent plebiscite, persecution of 192,000 Jews, Mauthausen camp, and the postwar victim myth.
Austrian Netherlands
Austrian Netherlands: Habsburg-ruled southern Low Countries (present-day Belgium and Luxembourg, 1713/1714–1794) under Charles VI, Maria Theresa, and Joseph II; ten provinces, Brussels governor-general, Ostend trade, Ferraris map, Brabant Revolution, ended by French annexation.
Austrian nobility
Austrian nobility (Adel): the hereditary privileged estate of the Habsburg monarchy, abolished legally by the Adelsaufhebungsgesetz of 3 April 1919 (in force 10 April 1919), which removed titles such as Ritter, Freiherr, Graf, and Fürst and the particle 'von'.
Austrian Partition
The Austrian Partition was the portion of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth annexed by the Habsburg Monarchy in 1772 and 1795, ruled chiefly as the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria until 1918.
Austrian People's Party
Austrian People's Party (ÖVP, Österreichische Volkspartei): Christian-democratic, conservative Austrian party founded 17 April 1945 in Vienna; dominant governing party of the Second Republic, EPP member, and since March 2025 lead party of Austria's first three-party coalition with SPÖ and NEOS under Chancellor Christian Stocker.
Austrian schilling
The Austrian schilling was reintroduced as Austria's currency on December 21, 1945, replacing the Reichsmark, and was converted to the euro in 2002 at 13.7603 schilling per euro.
Austrian school of economics
The Austrian school of economics, also known as Austrian economics, is a heterodox tradition founded by Carl Menger in 1871, known for its business cycle theory.
Austrian Sign Language
Austrian Sign Language (Österreichische Gebärdensprache, ÖGS) is the natural sign language of Austria's roughly 10,000 deaf first-language signers, constitutionally recognized since 2005 under Article 8(3) B-VG and listed as intangible cultural heritage in 2013.
Austrian State Prize for Literature
The Austrian State Prize for Literature (Österreichischer Staatspreis für Literatur) is the literature branch of the Grand Austrian State Prize, Austria's highest artistic award, first given to Josef Leitgeb in 1950.
Austrian State Treaty
The Austrian State Treaty, signed in Vienna on 15 May 1955, ended the four-power occupation of Austria and re-established it as a sovereign, independent, and democratic state.
Austrians
Austrians, also called Austrian Germans, are the citizens and inhabitants of Austria, a federal republic of nine provinces in Central Europe whose separate national identity formed only after 1945.