Vienna
(Ger. Wien)
- Theophil Antonicek,
- Derek Beales,
- Leon Botstein,
- Rudolf Klein
- and Harald Goertz
Extract
Capital city of Austria. Originally a Celtic settlement, it later became a Roman military town and finally the capital of the Duchy of Austria in the 12th century. It came under Habsburg rule in 1278 and expanded greatly as the capital of the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was dissolved after World War I; since that time the city has been the capital of the Federal Republic of Austria....
