AustriaBy: Coleman Evans

Ethnic Makeup

ETHNIC MAKEUP : 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)

Austrians Yugoslavs Germans

Population Fact: Population:8,210,281 (July 2010 est.) Growth Rate: 0.052% (2010 est.) Birth Rate: 8.65 births/1,000 population

(2010 est.) Death Rate: 9.98 deaths/1,000 population

(July 2010 est.

Language: 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)

Religion

Roman Catholic 73.6%, Protestant 4.7%, Muslim 4.2%, other 3.5%, unspecified 2%, none 12% (2001 census)

Every young person over the age of 14 can freely choose his or her religion according to Austrian law. Religious education in Austrian schools is not restricted to the Roman Catholic confession, but most schools are Roman Catholic.

Roman Catholic ChurchCatholic Cross Muslim Church

Communicating

In Austria, there are strict rules. Even at a dining table, such as, remain standing until invited to sit down. You may be shown to a particular seat. Table manners are Continental -- the fork is held in the left hand and the knife in the right while eating.

There are others like, first impressions. They are important and you will be judged on your clothing and demeanor.

Business dress is conservative and follows most European conventions.. Men should wear dark colored, conservative business suits with white shirts. . Women should wear either business suits or conservative dresses, complimented with elegant accessories.

Continental Eating Formal Clothing Austria Convention

Austria Food

The popular kind of meats are pork, beef, and chicken. The famous Wiener Schnitzel is traditionally made of veal. Pork in particular is used extensively, with many dishes using offal and parts such as the snout and trotters.

The most popular desert was Apple Strudel, which was layers of thin pastry surrounding a filling of apple, usually with cinnamon and raisins. Other strudels are also popular, such as those filled with sweetened curd cheese called Topfen, sour cherry (Weichselstrudel), sweet cherry and poppy seed strudel (Mohnstrudel).

Drinking coffee together is an important social activity in Austrian culture. It is quite common for Austrians to invite friends or neighbors over for coffee and cake. This somewhat ritualized activity can be compared to the British afternoon tea tradition. It is also very common to go to a coffeehouse for dating.

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Wiener Schnitzel

Austrian Coffee

Apple Strudel

There are many sports and recreation activities to do in Austria. There are activities like windsurfing, biking, hiking, boating, and baseball.

Residents of the lowlands enjoy thousands of venues—swimming pools, stadiums, riding arenas, bicycle paths, and other facilities

Austria Sports and Recreation

Another thing Austria is known for is their soccer team. They aren’t that good in the world ranks though.

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Austrian Soccer Jersey

Austrian soccer won the Austrian trophy last season

Ballooning on Austrian Alps.

Austrian Holidays

Austrians have a few holidays the same as the U.S., like Christmas and New Year’s Day.

Most of their holidays are different. They have a lost of religious holidays like “All Saints Day”, “Assumption of the Virgin Mary”, and “Corpus Christi”.

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Assumption of the Virgin Mary

Austria Government

Government Type: Federal Republic

Capital: Vienna

Three Branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial

Flag Description-Three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and red; the flag design is certainly one of the oldest - if not the oldest - national banners in the world.

Economy: Austria, with its well-developed market economy and high standard of living, is closely tied to other EU economies, especially Germany's. Its economy features a large service sector, a sound industrial sector, and a small, but highly developed agricultural sector.

Austria FlagFederal Republic Gov.

Vienna capital building.

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Austria Geography

Location: Central Europe, north of Italy and SloveniaCoordinates: 47 20 N, 13 20 E

Area: total: 83,871 sq km land: 82,445 sq km water: 1,426 sq km

Compared As: slightly smaller than Maine

Climate: temperate; continental, cloudy; cold winters with frequent rain and some snow in lowlands and snow in mountains; moderate summers with occasional showers.

Austria Alps.

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Current Issues: 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.

Natural Resources: oil, coal, lignite, timber, iron ore, copper, zinc, antimony, magnesite, tungsten, graphite, salt, hydropower.

Coal Oil Pumper

Austria Military:

Land Forces (KdoLdSK), Air Forces (KdoLuSK)

18-35 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of age for male or female voluntary service; service obligation 6 months of training, followed by an 8-year reserve obligation; conscripts cannot be deployed in military operations outside Austria (2009)

Males age 16-49: 1,960,781Females age 16-49: 1,926,134

Armed Forces Logo

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Austrian Tank Austrian Land Forces

Austrian History

Settled in prehistoric times, the central European land that is now Austria was overrun in pre-Roman times by various tribes, including the Celts. After the fall of the Roman Empire, of which Austria was part, the area was invaded by Bavarians and Slavic Avars. Charlemagne conquered the area in 788 and encouraged colonization and Christianity. In 1252, Ottokar, king of Bohemia, gained possession, only to lose the territories to Rudolf of Hapsburg in 1278.

During World War I, Austria-Hungary was one of the Central powers with Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey, and the conflict left the country in political chaos and economic ruin. Austria, shorn of Hungary, was proclaimed a republic in 1918, and the monarchy was dissolved in 1919. A parliamentary democracy was set up by the constitution of Nov. 10, 1920. To check the power of Nazis advocating union with Germany, Chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss in 1933 established a dictatorship, but he was assassinated by the Nazis on July 25, 1934.

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City of Graz in Prehistoric Austria

Bottom Left: Austrians in World War IBottom Right: Austrian Refugees in World War II

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Created By: Coleman Evans