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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in
1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945,
Austria's status remained unclear for a decade. A State Treaty signed in
1955 ended the occupation, recognized Austria's independence, and
forbade unification with Germany. A constitutional law that same year
declared the country's "perpetual neutrality" as a condition for Soviet
military withdrawal. The Soviet Union's collapse in 1991 and Austria's
entry into the European Union in 1995 have altered the meaning of this
neutrality. A prosperous, democratic country, Austria entered the EU
Economic and Monetary Union in 1999.
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Note: Austria did try to sell guns to King Kalakaua.
Reference: Archives, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
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Central Europe, north of Italy and Slovenia
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47 20 N, 13 20 E
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total: 83,871 sq km
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land:
82,445 sq km
water:
1,426 sq km
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slightly smaller than Maine
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total: 2,562 km
border countries:
Czech Republic 362 km, Germany 784 km, Hungary 366
km, Italy 430 km, Liechtenstein 35 km, Slovakia 91 km, Slovenia 330 km,
Switzerland 164 km
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0 km (landlocked)
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none (landlocked)
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Current Weather
temperate; continental, cloudy; cold winters with frequent rain and some snow in lowlands and snow in mountains; moderate summers with occasional showers
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in the west and south mostly mountains (Alps); along the eastern and northern margins mostly flat or gently sloping
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lowest point: Neusiedler See 115 m
highest point:
Grossglockner 3,798 m
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oil, coal, lignite, timber, iron ore, copper, zinc, antimony, magnesite, tungsten, graphite, salt, hydropower
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arable land: 16.59%
permanent crops:
0.85%
other:
82.56% (2005)
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40 sq km (2003)
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84 cu km (2005)
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total: 3.67 cu km/yr (35%/64%/1%)
per capita:
448 cu m/yr (1999)
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landslides; avalanches; earthquakes
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some forest degradation caused by air and soil pollution; soil pollution results from the use of agricultural chemicals; air pollution results from emissions by coal-
and oil-fired power stations and industrial plants and from trucks
transiting Austria between northern and southern Europe
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party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94,
Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic Treaty,
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol,
Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification,
Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship
Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified:
none of the selected agreements
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landlocked; strategic location at the crossroads of central Europe with many easily traversable Alpine passes and valleys; major river is the Danube;
population is concentrated on eastern lowlands because of steep slopes,
poor soils, and low temperatures elsewhere
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8,214,160 (July 2010 est.)
country
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0-14 years: 14.5% (male 609,748/female 581,144)
15-64 years:
67.5% (male 2,785,091/female 2,756,402)
65 years and over:
18% (male 612,613/female 865,283) (2010 est.)
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total: 42.6 years
male:
41.5 years
female:
43.6 years (2010 est.)
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0.042% (2010 est.)
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8.65 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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10.05 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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1.83 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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urban population: 67% of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization:
0.7% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
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at birth: 1.051 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.71 male(s)/female
total population:
0.95 male(s)/female (2010 est.)
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total: 4.37 deaths/1,000 live births
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male:
5.31 deaths/1,000 live births
female:
3.38 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
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total population: 79.65 years
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male:
76.74 years
female:
82.71 years (2010 est.)
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1.39 children born/woman (2010 est.)
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0.2% (2007 est.)
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9,800 (2007 est.)
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fewer than 100 (2003 est.)
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noun: Austrian(s)
adjective:
Austrian
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Austrians 91.1%, former Yugoslavs 4% (includes Croatians, Slovenes, Serbs, and Bosniaks), Turks 1.6%, German 0.9%, other or unspecified 2.4% (2001 census)
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Roman Catholic 73.6%, Protestant 4.7%, Muslim 4.2%, other 3.5%, unspecified 2%, none 12% (2001 census)
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German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene, official in Carinthia, and
Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census)
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definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
98%
male:
NA
female:
NA
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total: 15 years
male:
15 years
female:
15 years (2008)
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5.4% of GDP (2007)
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conventional long form: Republic of Austria
conventional short form:
Austria
local long form:
Republik Oesterreich
local short form:
Oesterreich
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federal republic
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name: Vienna
geographic coordinates:
48 12 N, 16 22 E
time difference:
UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during
Standard Time)
daylight saving time:
+1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last
Sunday in October
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9 states (Bundeslaender, singular - Bundesland); Burgenland, Kaernten (Carinthia), Niederoesterreich (Lower Austria), Oberoesterreich (Upper Austria),
Salzburg, Steiermark (Styria), Tirol (Tyrol), Vorarlberg, Wien (Vienna)
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12 November 1918 (republic proclaimed); notable earlier dates: 976 (Margravate of Austria established); 17 September 1156 (Duchy of Austria founded); 11 August
1804 (Austrian Empire proclaimed)
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National Day, 26 October (1955); note - commemorates the passage of the law on permanent neutrality
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1920; revised 1929; reinstated 1 May 1945; note - during the period 1 May 1934-1 May 1945 there was a fascist (corporative) constitution in place
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civil law system with Roman law origin; judicial review of legislative acts by the Constitutional Court; separate administrative and civil/penal supreme
courts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
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16 years of age; universal; note - reduced from 18 years of age in 2007
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chief of state: President Heinz FISCHER (SPOe) (since 8 July 2004)
head of government:
Chancellor Werner FAYMANN (SPOe) (since 2 December
2008); Vice Chancellor Josef PROELL (OeVP) (since 2 December 2008)
cabinet:
Council of Ministers chosen by the president on
the advice of the chancellor
(For more information visit the World Leaders website  )
elections:
president elected for a six-year term (eligible
for a second term) by direct popular vote and formally sworn into office
before the Federal Assembly or Bundesversammlung; presidential election
last held on 25 April 2010 (next to be held on 25 April 2016);
chancellor formally chosen by the president but determined by the
coalition parties forming a parliamentary majority; vice chancellor
chosen by the president on the advice of the chancellor
election results:
Heinz FISCHER reelected president with 79.3% of
the vote
note:
government coalition - SPOe and OeVP
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bicameral Federal Assembly or Bundesversammlung consists of Federal Council or Bundesrat (62 seats; delegates appointed by state parliaments with each state
receiving 3 to 12 seats in proportion to its population; members serve
five- or six-year terms) and the National Council or Nationalrat (183
seats; members elected by popular vote for a five-year term under a
system of proportional representation with partially-open party lists)
elections:
National Council - last held on 28 September 2008
(next to be held by September 2013)
election results:
National Council - percent of vote by party - SPOe
29.3%, OeVP 26%, FPOe 17.5%, BZOe 10.7%, Greens 10.4%, other 6.1%;
seats by party - SPOe 57, OeVP 51, FPOe 34, BZOe 21, Greens 20
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Supreme Judicial Court or Oberster Gerichtshof; Administrative Court or Verwaltungsgerichtshof; Constitutional Court or Verfassungsgerichtshof
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Alliance for the Future of Austria or BZOe [Josef BUCHER]; Austrian People's Party or OeVP [Josef PROELL]; Freedom Party of Austria or FPOe [Heinz Christian
STRACHE]; Social Democratic Party of Austria or SPOe [Werner FAYMANN];
The Greens [Eva GLAWISCHNIG]
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Austrian Trade Union Federation or OeGB (nominally independent but primarily Social Democratic); Federal Economic Chamber; OeVP-oriented Association of
Austrian Industrialists or IV; Roman Catholic Church, including its
chief lay organization, Catholic Action
other:
three composite leagues of the Austrian People's
Party or OeVP representing business, labor, farmers, and other
nongovernment organizations in the areas of environment and human rights
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ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-9, IADB, IAEA,
IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO,
Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO,
NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club,
PCA, PFP, Schengen Convention, SECI (observer), UN, UN Security Council
(temporary), UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU,
WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
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chief of mission: Ambassador Christian PROSL
chancery:
3524 International Court NW, Washington, DC
20008-3035
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Amelia,
Okay extermination that is true: Taking a look at the statistics for drop outs and analyzing from the fed data--not the state. Our teens numbers are huge, and growing because they are the producers of babies, poverty, and welfare state. The next problem is how the 'State' (fake Hawaii) hide their numbers. Realizing the sampling, populace and the schorlarhips and grantship--the ship leaves the harbor for secret missions. So, what are these secret missions?
Fortunately, these writers: Noam, Zinn, Fanon, C. West, Durant ( not my favorite), Said, and many others I have not mentioned--dared to write to the social injustice of humanity. What is being said over and over that humans exist, but not necessarily are they all treated as equals. And your contention of extermination in the Pacific Ocean and it's island people are so very real.
Spending the whole 2010 year, I can only listen to Noelani voice that one made a difference. But, I cannot say to myself that is all that I could have done. I got deaf ear! So, stuck in the rut of could da, should da don'ah, I agree to the systematic genocide syndrom and that the stockholm 'Nationalist' are the producers of in their aftermath of confronting the 'fake' State. Just look at their leader, the big ass A that worked for the US military and tried (loser) to run for OHA trusteeship. Talk about fakery!
To anticipate the extermination in little groups measured by the Unvierstiy of Hawaii at Manoa would be the only plausible purpose for 2011, in trying to prevent the actual event of pure extermination of the native Hawaiian humanity. I don't know where the love exist for our people. I know dam well it doesn't exist in the minds and mouths of the 'Nationals'. For me to not identify the problem at this juncture, would mean that I am too a participant. And to, not do something about the extermination of our people would also mean that I too am a participant of this atrocity. I don't have all the answers at this time. Except to say well done on the Kahea!!!
Amelia,
Sorry for being such a drag on your postings, but it is intriguing for me when I look at the ancients especially the paintings. I forgot to share with you another aspect of my elements of framing into text and understanding my writings. A serious understanding of 'golden rectangle' is important and I suck at math. I can see these measurements at different places in the islands when visiting ancient and sacred places. It's interesting too because in elemenatary classes we teach these very same shapes. When one sees these youngsters running around the Iolani Palace, I wonder how much are they taking into their thought processes. I'm sure long after, I'm gone Joshua will return to the Palace and ponder scientific observation and through the windows of his thoughts will see the ancients too.
Yes, Austria was a big problem during Iraq too, it was a scary moment in time. This was during baby Bushes time in office.
I watched some of the Soviet Union last night. I think I mentioned once before I had a Russian and Ukraine in my classroom and boy they were at each other, but friends. 7 million Ukraine exterminated by the Soviet Union. The French are more to the point and no nonsence. The Latinos are more romantic.
Just read the Kalakaua part that is so very interesting.
One should go on a student exchange to a foreign country and share their's and our's as a comparative research. If I could go to Denmark on a student exchange I would, I also wanted to go to Russia too!
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Note: Austria tried to sell guns to King David Kalakaua.
Austria is on record for selling guns to a number of foreign countries, especially those who get plundered upon by the U.S., Great Britain with the help of the bankers...........
aloha.
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