Austria Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
country in Central Europe
About Austria
Österreichliterally means "the Eastern Realm" or "Eastern Empire" in German. Today's Austria is what was once the German-speaking core and centre of power for the large multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire with its imperial capital in Vienna. This empire stretched eastwards from present-day Austria through much of east-central and south-central Europe. It included the entire territories of modern-day Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and portions of Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Poland and Italy, and also had a small colonial possession inTianjin,China. WhilePrussiaunited the German states to the north into one "German Empire" in 1867-1871, Austria remained oriented eastwards towards its diverse empire. However, from the start of the 20th century, the political h
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