Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Croatian and Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austria's nine states (Land Wien). With a population of about 1.6 million, Vienna is the largest city and the cultural and political centre of Austria. Situated in both sides of the river Danube, Vienna is 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the Austrian-Slovak border, i.e. also from the Slovak capital, ...

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Vienna is also Austria's main center of education and home to many universities, professional colleges and gymnasiums. Vienna - Universities. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Medical University of Vienna University of Applied Arts Vienna University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna University of Vienna University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna University of Technology ...

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Vienna - Nightlife. Vienna has a variety of nightlife options. Its low crime rate and extensive public transportation network make going out at night safe and convenient. Regular public transportation (subway, tram, and bus) runs until approximately 12:30. After this, nighttime bus lines provide service every half hour (fifteen minutes on some segments). Almost all night lines circle the inner city before heading outbound. Most lines are numerated the same as their corresponding daytime line. For example, if you ...

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The Archbishop of Vienna is the prelate of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna who is concurrently the metropolitan bishop of its ecclesiastical province which includes the dioceses of Eisenstadt, Linz and St. Pölten. From 1469 to 1513, bishops from elsewhere were appointed as administrators. The first bishop residing in Vienna was Georg von Slatkonia. From 1861 to 1918, the archbishops, as members of the Herrenhaus, were represented in the Reichsrat ...

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The Vienna Circle was a group of philosophers and scientists organized in Vienna under Moritz Schlick. They met weekly, for the most part, beginning in 1922 and ending in 1936, when Schlick was shot to death by an irate graduate student, Johann Nelböck. Many members had left Austria during the rise of the Nazi party. The Circle clashed with the Nazi party over its ideological and mysticism-based scientific research. Their approach to philo ...

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The Congress of Vienna was a conference between ambassadors from the major powers in Europe that was chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich and held in Vienna, Austria, from September 1, 1814, to June 9, 1815. Its purpose was to redraw the continent's political map after the defeat of Napoleonic France the previous spring. The discussions continued despite the ex-Emperor Napoleon I's return from exile and resumption of power in France in March 1815, and the Congress's Final Act was signed nine days before his ...

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The Battle of Vienna in 1683 (Turkish: İkinci Viyana Kuşatması) (as distinct from the Siege of Vienna in 1529) was the first large-scale battle of the Habsburg-Ottoman Wars, yet with the most far-reaching consequences. The battle pitted a Habsburg army of about 100,000 troops and their allies, led by Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, a 30,000-man relief force under Jan III Sobieski, King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, against the Ottoman army, commanded by Grand Vizier Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, which numbered approxi ...

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The Vienna Boys' Choir (German: Wiener Sängerknaben) is a choir of boy sopranos based in Vienna, Austria. It is one the most well known boys' choir in the world. The boys are selected from Germany as well as Austria. It is the modern-day descendant of the boys' choirs of the Viennese Court, dating back to the late Middle Ages. The role of the choir (numbering between fourteen and twenty) was to provide musical accompaniment to the church mass. The youth received a solid musical education, which in most cases had a significant ...

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The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (in German: Wiener Philharmoniker) is the best known orchestra in Austria and one of the best ensembles in the world. Its home base is the world-famous Musikverein. The members of the orchestra are chosen from the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. Although the orchestra is widely acknowledged as one of the world's finest, it has come in for some criticism because until 1997 it has not allowed women to join their society (although women were allowed just to play in it for quite ...

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The Vienna Opera Ball (Wiener Opernball in German) is an annual Austrian society event which takes place in the building of the Vienna State Opera on the Thursday preceding Ash Wednesday. Together with the New Year Concert, the Opera Ball is one of the highlights of the Viennese carnival season. The dress code is evening dress: white tie and tails for men; floor-length ballgowns for women. Austrian businessman Richard Lugner has attracted famous people as his guests to the ball. Among them have been Sarah Ferguson and Sophia Loren. In a joint venture, ORF and BR b ...

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The University of Vienna (German: Universität Wien) in Austria was founded in 1365 by Rudolph IV and hence named Alma Mater Rudolphina. It is the largest and oldest university in the German-speaking world (except the University of Prague, which used to be partly German-speaking). To distinguish it from other Viennese universities, it is also often informally referred to as Hauptuni ("main university"). University of Vienna - Organizational Structure: History and Present DevelopmentsIncluding:

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The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is an international treaty designed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the contracting parties. This convention was agreed upon at the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Conference on Road Traffic (October 7, 1968 - November 8, 1968). This conference also produced the Vienna Convention for Road Signs and Signals. See also. Geneva Convention on Road Traffic (1949)Including:

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On 1 October, however, a miner of Christian parentage who escaped into the city reported that the real purpose of the bombardment was to mask tunnelling efforts beneath the city. The Carinthian Gate, one of the city's four entrances, was the apparent target of this new assault, with the intent being to blow up the towers and then attack with assault troops. Salm, an expert in tunnelling, quickly took ingenious steps against the efforts, including placing buckets of water and dried peas near the cellar walls of homes adjacent to the gate. Whe ...

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The Turks quickly packed their campsites that night, tossing captured Austrians into the fire as they did. Pandemonium reigned throughout, however, and many Austrian captives managed to escape to the walls of the city, where ladders were lowered for them; the Viennese still not believing it was all over. The next day, as the Ottomans disappeared, snow began to fall on Vienna as the defenders cautiously crept out of their fortress; the weather that had saved it was once more displaying itself. Ottoman casualties were thought to have been in the neighborhood of 20,000 - 25,000 men, many more than the garrison's; although most ...

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In August of 1526, Sultan Suleiman I (also known as Suleiman the Lawgiver or Suleiman the Magnificent) smashed the forces of King Lajos II of Hungary at the Battle of Mohács. Following the partial conquest of Hungary, and the disintegration of the rest as a state, Suleiman turned his attention to Austria, whose ruler gained control of the Northern, Western and Southwestern (Croatia) parts of the former Kingdom of Hungary. Recognising Austria as a powerful enemy, he intended to launch an attack straight at its heart: the ...

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The populace of the city reacted with terror when news reached them of the advancing Ottoman force. Stories of their inexorable approach, especially the tales of the janissaries' murderous brutality (a notable example being the massacre of the surrendering German garrison and, subsequently, the populace of the town of Pest) infused the city with first a sense of fear and then a resigned will to fight to the death that would serve it well during the siege to come. Ferdinand I, however, had none of this will - he fled to the relative safety of ...

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By the time they arrived, the Turkish army was far more formidable on paper than it was in reality. From the drenching country rains barely 20,000 of the camels remained as many of the men, too, took ill with fever or chills. Even of those able to fight, a third were light cavalry (sipahis), next to useless in siege warfare. Even so, the sight of tents as far as they could see struck renewed fear into the besieged city. It is possible they might have capitulated if not for Von Salm's steely resolve, and when Ottoman emissaries threatened to raze the city if it did not surrender, he ...

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To capture the city of Vienna had long been a strategic aspiration for the Ottoman Empire, due to its inter-locking control over Danubean (Black Sea-to-Western Europe) southern Europe, and the overland (Eastern Mediterannean-to-Germany) trade routes. During the years preceding the second siege, under the auspicies of grand viziers from the influential Köprülü family, the Ottoman Empire undertook extensive logistical preparations this time, including the repair and establishment of roads and bridges leading into Austria, and logistical cen ...

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