AUSTRIA STATE


Austria state has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the EUROPEAN STATES category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.


Austria

Austria is an aeternitas of the history of european integration that will have influence on the future of Europe. The name given by the inhabitants is REPUBLIK D’ÖSTERREICH with the official national languages of German (belonging to he group of German family) spoken by the citizens who today live in the parliamentary federal republic of Austria, together with the residents of others European peoples speaking Hungarian, Slovean or Serbo-Croatian.


Austria is situated in central Europe in the eastern side of the Alps: its western borders are delimited by Liechenstein and Switzerland, while Austria confines on the North with Germany and the Czech Republic, at East with Hungary and Slovakia, on South with Slovenia and Italy. The territory of Austria is mostly hilly with a medium altitude of 1000 meters, along the series of Alps chains descending towards east and the Danube river valley along with the deep glacial grooves modeled in the Quartenarian Age: so the Alps of Otztal, Stubai, Tux and Zillertal are high over 3000 meters and nice place for skying and touristic activities. All the rivers of the Austrian hydrographic network (Inn, Lech, Traun, Enns, Leitha, Drava) are tributaries of Danube that runs for over 350 kilometers separating the Alps from the Bohemian Massif, in the middle of hundreds of alpines lakes distributed all around mountains to form pretty paesagistic sites, even if the climate is tipically alpine continental because the long Alps chain avoid the mediterranean current to pass over.


The history of Austria started with the first settlements of Alpines people (as you can read in this article) who had been followed along the ancient times by the ancient Celts in Neolitich age, then by the Norics and Boi tribes of Celts and in the I century AD by the Marcomanni tribe of Germans: they all had been submitted by Romans and within the reform of Augustus (see Roman Empire), Austria was included into the Noricum and Raetia provinces that with the reform of Constantine I (see Christian Empire) became part respcetively of the Gallia and Annonaria diocesi. At the falling of Western Roman Empire, those provinces was invaded by the german tribe of Bavari that formed an independent duchy ruled by the Agilolfingi dinasty until 788 AD when it was annexed to Regna Francorum.


With the renovatio imperii reform of Charlemagne the land of Austria entered the Carolingian Empire, as part of the Mark of Osterreich within the Regna Germanorum starting from 843 AD with the Verdun treaty and ruled by the Carolingian dinasty until 976 AD when it was enfeoffed to the Babengerg dinasty by Otto II imperator of the Reich Empire. In 1156 AD Austria was elevated as duchy and successively joined (1180 AD) to the duchy of Styria, instituted by the emperor Frederick I and assigned to the bohemian royal dinasty of Premyslid until 1278 AD when they lost the decisive battle against the new Reich emperor Rudolf I of the Habsburg dinasty, who obtained all the Austrian fiefs forever.


With the splitting of the family in the Albertinian and the Leopoldinian branches, their possessions went divided respectively in Duchy of Austria plus County of Tyrol (inherited by the ancient house owner) and Duchy of Styria and Carinthia (joining the ancient carolingian mark) until 1457 AD when all the Austrian duchies were rejoined under the new Reich emperor Frederick III, even when they all passed to the Habsburg-Lothringen dinasty who ruled the Empire of Austria-Hungary until the end of the First World War. In 1919 AD Austria became and independent state as I Republic but was annexed to the III Reich since 1938 AD (anschluss) and occupied by Allied at the end of the Second World War until 1950 AD when was established the federal Republic of nowadays, formed by the autonomous Landers of A. Inferior, A. Superior, Tirol, Burgenland, Styria, Carinthia, Salzburg and Vorarlberg, whose capital is Wien the ancient roman capital of the Noricum and of the Habsburg's empire. Which are the most famous cities of Austria? They are the historical centres of Linz, Salzburg (seat a large and important christian archibischopric and monastir), Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and Graz, while Hallstatt is the most ancient site where had origin a fundamental european civilty. Austria is a member of the European Union since 1986 AD, then is admitted to the E.E.C. and adopted the Euro coin.






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