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Austric languages
Austric languages: hypothetical macrofamily proposed by Wilhelm Schmidt in 1906 uniting Austronesian and Austroasiatic, sometimes with Tai-Kadai and Hmong-Mien; unproven and rejected by mainstream historical linguistics.
Austrina Vallis
Austrina Vallis, a 600 km sinuous volcanic lava channel (canali) on Venus at 49.5°S, 177°E, named in 1997 after the Latvian name for Venus; width 0.68–3.8 km, sinuosity 1.02–1.21.
Austro Control
Austro Control is the Austrian air navigation service provider, a company wholly owned by the Republic of Austria that controls air traffic and performs aviation agency duties like pilot licensing.
Austro-Daimler
Austro-Daimler, formally the Österreichische Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, was an Austrian automobile, engine, and vehicle manufacturer in Wiener Neustadt founded in 1899; once Austria's largest automobile factory, it was merged into Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG in 1934.
Austro-Hungarian Army
The Austro-Hungarian Army (1867-1918), the Habsburg Monarchy's armed force, comprising the k.u.k. Common Army, the Austrian Landwehr, and the Hungarian Honvéd under a shared emperor and German command language.
Austro-Hungarian Bank
The Austro-Hungarian Bank was the joint central bank of Austria-Hungary, created in 1878 from the Austrian National Bank, issuing the gulden and later the gold crown until 1919.
Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878
Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1878 (Okkupation Bosniens): Habsburg occupation under the Treaty of Berlin, resisted by Muslim and Serb insurgents under Hadži Lojo; Sarajevo fell 19 August 1878.
Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 (Ausgleich, kiegyezés) reorganized the Habsburg Empire into the dual monarchy Austria-Hungary after the 1866 defeat by Prussia, with common foreign, military, and financial affairs handled by Delegations until 1918.
Austro-Hungarian General Staff
The Austro-Hungarian General Staff was the Habsburg Monarchy's body for war planning and mobilization, holding a monopoly on planning and led by Conrad von Hötzendorf before 1914.
Austro-Hungarian mobilizations during the Balkan Wars
The Austro-Hungarian mobilizations during the Balkan Wars were two precautionary army call-ups in 1912 and 1913 that brought about 550,000 men into uniform without war.
Austro-Hungarian Navy
Austro-Hungarian Navy (k.u.k. Kriegsmarine), the Habsburg Monarchy's naval force based at Pola and Cattaro; born from the 1797 acquisition of Venice, victorious at Lissa 1866, expanded into a four-dreadnought fleet by 1914, dissolved in 1918.
Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878–1918: occupation mandated by the 1878 Berlin Congress, annexation in 1908, Joint Finance Ministry administration, the Kállay era, and the 1910 Statute.
Austro-Marxism
Austro-Marxism (German: Austromarxismus) was an Austrian school of social-democratic Marxism active from about 1900 to 1934, whose leading figures included Otto Bauer, Max Adler, and Rudolf Hilferding.
Austro-Prussian War
The Austro-Prussian War (Preußisch-österreichischer Krieg 1866), or Seven Weeks' War: Prussia and Italy defeated Austria in 1866; Königgrätz, the Treaty of Prague, Austria's exclusion from Germany, and the path to 1871 unification.
Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718)
The Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718) was a war between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire, fought in Hungary and the Balkans and ending in Habsburg victory.
Austroads
Austroads is the not-for-profit association of Australian and New Zealand transport agencies, developing technical guides, research, and national data services for consistent road network management.
Austroasiatic languages
Austroasiatic languages: large language family of mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia, also called Mon–Khmer plus Munda; over 150 languages, ninth-largest family, classification still unresolved.
Austroblechnum
Austroblechnum is a genus of dimorphic ferns in Blechnaceae, split from Blechnum in 2016 by Gasper et al.; its spores have a distinctive nonfolded, smooth or granulate perine, mainly Southern Hemisphere species.
Austrocortinarius australiensis
Austrocortinarius australiensis, the skirt webcap (formerly Cortinarius australiensis, basionym Rozites australiensis), is a large ectomycorrhizal Australian and New Zealand mushroom with a cap to 300 mm, membranous annulus, and rusty-brown spore print.
Austrofascism
Austrofascism (German: Austrofaschismus) is the term for the authoritarian regime that ruled Austria from 1933 to 1938 under Chancellors Dollfuß and Schuschnigg, dismantling parliamentary democracy for a corporatist Ständestaat.
Austronesian languages
Austronesian languages: a family of about 1,200 related languages from Madagascar to Easter Island, with its homeland in Taiwan and dispersal beginning roughly 5,200 years ago; nearly all members belong to Malayo-Polynesian.
Austronesian peoples
Austronesian peoples are the speakers of the Austronesian language family, about 270 million people from Madagascar to Easter Island. Originating in Taiwan around 5,000 years ago, they spread across Island Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Austronesian settlement of Madagascar
The Austronesian settlement of Madagascar was the migration of seafaring peoples from Island Southeast Asia, probably southern Borneo, to Madagascar, giving the island its Austronesian language, Malagasy.
Austropotamobius pallipes
Austropotamobius pallipes, the white-clawed crayfish, is a freshwater crayfish native to Western and Southern Europe and the only native crayfish species in Britain, listed as Endangered by the IUCN.
Austvågøya
Austvågøya, Norway's ninth largest island (530 km²) in Nordland county, lies at the Lofoten–Vesterålen boundary, split between Hadsel and Vågan. It holds Svolvær, Kabelvåg, and the medieval town of Vágar.
Ausum
Ausum is the name of two ancient Roman sites in North Africa: a frontier fort at Sadouri in southern Numidia, Algeria, and a city of Mauretania Sitifensis near Akbou.
Autaritus
Autaritus, also known as Autaritos, was a Gallic mercenary commander in Carthaginian service who became one of three chief leaders of the Mercenary War against Carthage, 241–238 BC.
Autarky
Autarky, from the Greek autarkeia, is an economic policy of complete national self-sufficiency through domestic control of production and supply; no modern nation, even North Korea, has fully achieved it.
Autechre
Autechre, the English electronic duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth from Rochdale, formed in 1987 on Warp Records; known for IDM classics Incunabula, Tri Repetae, Confield, MaxMSP-based composition, and concerts in total darkness.
Autel EVO II
The Autel EVO II is a series of folding camera drones made by Shenzhen-based Autel Robotics, announced at CES 2020 as a direct competitor to DJI's Mavic 2 line.