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Parent topics
- European Union [r]: Hybrid intergovernmental and supranational organization, which consists of 27 European states. [e]
- Europe [r]: Sixth largest continent; area 10,000,000 km2; pop. 720,000,000 [e]
Subtopics
International
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- Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye [r]: Treaty drawn up between the victorious Allied powers of World War One and Austria, the remaining rump state of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. [e]
- Treaty of Trianon [r]: Treaty drawn up between the victorious Allied powers of World War One and Hungary. The treaty changed the face of the post Imperial Hungarian State, seeing it lose millions of its population to other states, such as Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. [e]
- Treaty of Versailles [r]: The treaty developed at the Paris Peace Conference following World War I. [e]}
- 1956 Hungarian revolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Euro [r]: Official currency of the majority of the European Union member states. [e]
- Euro 2008 [r]: 13th UEFA European Football Championship, contested by European nations, and hosted by Austria and Switzerland (7 June 2008 - 29 June 2008). [e]
- U.S. Ambassador to Austria [r]: William Eacho, III, a business executive, is Ambassador-Designate [e]
- Austrian Ambassador to the U.S. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. policy towards Austria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Austrian policy towards the U.S. [r]: Add brief definition or description
Geography
- Vienna (Austria) [r]: Capital city of Austria, in the northeastern part of the country on the Danube River. [e]
Biology
- Vipera ammodytes gregorwallneri [r]: Venomous viper subspecies found mainly in Austria and the former Yugoslavia. [e]
Culture
- Vienna Circle [r]: Group of philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians formed in the 1920s that met regularly in Vienna to investigate scientific language and scientific method. [e]
Medicine
- Ignaz Semmelweis [r]: (1 July 1818 - 13 August 1865) Hungarian-born pioneer of antisepsis in obstetrics, and demonstrated that many cases of infection could be prevented. [e]
- Sigmund Freud [r]: (1856 – 1939) Pioneering psychologist who developed psychoanalysis. [e]
Cuisine
Other related topics
- German dialects [r]: Dialect dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects the German with the Dutch language. [e]
- German language [r]: German is a West-Germanic language, the official language of Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein, one of several official languages in Switzerland and Belgium, and also spoken in Italy and Denmark. [e]
- Germany [r]: Federal republic in central Europe (population c. 82.4 million; capital Berlin), with the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the north; Poland and the Czech Republic to the east; France, Switzerland and Austria to the south; and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west; founding member of the European Union. [e]
- Hungary [r]: Landlocked central European republic (population c. 9.9 million; capital Budapest) in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. [e]
- Italy [r]: Southern European republic (population c. 58.1 million; capital Rome) that has northern borders with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, and coastlines on the Tyrrhenian, Mediterranean, Inonian and Adriatic seas; founding member of the European Union. [e]
- Slovakia [r]: The Slovak Republic (population c. 5.5 million; capital Bratislava) is a landlocked nation adjoining Austria to the west, the Czech Republic to the north-west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. [e]
- Slovenian language [r]: An Indo-European language that belongs to the family of South Slavic languages, spoken by about two million speakers. [e]
- Slovenia [r]: Former Yugoslav republic (population c. 2 million; capital Ljubljana) at the north-eastern end of the Adriatic Sea, and bordering Italy and Austria to the alpine west and north, Hungary to the north-east, and Croatia along a long frontier to the east and south. [e]
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- Action T4 [r]: Secret program in Nazi Germany in which Adolf Hitler's regime killed up to 250,000 people with disabilities. [e]
- Alps [r]: European mountain range streching from Austria and Slovenia to Switzerland and France; contains Mont Blanc, the highest point of which is 4,808 meters. [e]
- Arthritis [r]: A group of medical conditions where there is damage caused to the joints of the body. [e]
- Bavaria [r]: The southernmost state in Germany whose capital is Münich (München). [e]
- Beer [r]: Alcoholic fermented beverage. [e]
- Benito Mussolini [r]: (1883-1945) The Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943; as part of the Axis alliance, he led his country into war against France and Britain in 1940, and against the United States in 1941. [e]
- Bundesländer [r]: The largest political subdivisions of Austria and Germany. [e]
- Carinthia (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carinthia (province) [r]: A province in the north of Slovenia. [e]
- Carinthia (state) [r]: The southernmost Austrian state. [e]
- Catalog of political philosophers [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Civil law [r]: A system of law which starts with abstract rules, which judges must then apply to the various cases before them. [e]
- Country [r]: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. [e]
- Czech Republic [r]: Landlocked republic (population c. 10.2 million; capital Prague) comprising the territories of Bohemia and Moravia; formerly part of Czechoslovakia; bordered by Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Austria. [e]
- Danube River [r]: Europe's second longest river, about 2860 km long, second only to the Volga River. [e]
- Diplomacy (board game) [r]: A board game involving 7 players, each controlling one of the major European powers just before World War I: England, Germany, Italy, France, Russia, Turkey, or Austria. [e]
- Douglas Adams [r]: (1952–2001) English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician, best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. [e]
- Drava River [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Elbe River [r]: The Elbe River is a large river draining into the North Sea. [e]
- France, history [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen [r]: City of south-central Germany in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps near Oberammergau, historically a noted winter resort. [e]
- German Resistance [r]: Individuals and groups in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945. [e]
- György Ligeti [r]: (1923 – 2006) Jewish Hungarian composer best known for his opera Le Grand Macabre and pieces which feature in the films '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'The Shining', and 'Eyes Wide Shut'. [e]
- Italy [r]: Southern European republic (population c. 58.1 million; capital Rome) that has northern borders with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, and coastlines on the Tyrrhenian, Mediterranean, Inonian and Adriatic seas; founding member of the European Union. [e]
- Jacob Pavlovich Adler [r]: International star of Yiddish theater in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [e]
- Knights Templar [r]: Medieval order of chivalry suppressed in the thirteenth century. [e]
- Lacrosse [r]: Team sport played outdoors by ten players (men) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (the crosse) in order to pass and catch a very hard rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals by propelling the ball into the opponent's goal. [e]
- Liechtenstein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- List of rivers by length [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Maximilien Robespierre [r]: (6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) One of the most famous (or infamous, depending on perspective) leaders of the French Revolution. [e]
- Mercantilism [r]: A term broadly describing Western European economic theory from the Early Modern period to the 1750s. [e]
- Munich Conference [r]: Conference held in Munich on 28-29 September 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. [e]
- National Socialism [r]: The totalitarian ideology of Adolph Hitler and the German Nazi Party. [e]
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [r]: Award conferred once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institute, for physiology or medicine, since 1901. [e]
- Orchid [r]: Any plant classified under Orchidaceae, one of the largest plant families and the largest among Monocotyledons. [e]
- Pitch (music) [r]: Perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. [e]
- Reference conditions of gas temperature and pressure [r]: The temperature and pressure conditions that define the density of a gas and serve to document a stated gas volume. [e]
- Richard Réti [r]: (1889-1929), An Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player and chess problemist whose writings become 'classics' in the chess world; New Ideas in Chess (1922) and Masters of the Chessboard (1930) are still studied today. [e]
- Romansh language [r]: Romance language spoken in the Graubünden canton of eastern Switzerland; one of the official languages of the country, with about 40,000 speakers. [e]
- Sephardi Jews [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Steel [r]: An alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon content between 0.02% and 1.7% by weight, depending on grade. [e]
- Stephen Krashen [r]: emeritus professor of education at the University of Southern California; his research concerns second language acquisition (SLA), bilingual education, literacy and neurolinguistics. [e]
- Theoretical chemistry [r]: The description of atoms, molecules and reactions in mathematical form. [e]
- Venice [r]: City and major seaport in Nothern Italy that is famous for its canals, and for its role as a republic and major trade hub in medieval Europe. [e]}
- Zugspitze [r]: Highest mountain in Germany, in the Wetterstein Range of the Northern Limestone Alps, between Austria and Germany. [e]
