AUSTRIA

Thursday 29 January 2009

100 HUNDERT SCHILLING

CURTSY: MD. NISHATH CHOUDHURY
KENT, ENGLAND

Sunday 30 November 2008

OLD BANK NOTES FROM AUSTRIA

20 SCHILLING / 1956

1 KRONE / 1922
COLLECTION FROM ENGLAND

COUNTRY INFORMATION

Local name: Oesterreich
Capital: Vienna
Government: federal republic
Currency: euro (EUR)
Official language: German
Other languages spoken: Slovene (official in Carinthia), Croatian (official in Burgenland), Hungarian (official in Burgenland)
Famous people: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Brief History. Austria is a landlocked country of central Europe. It was settled by Celtic tribes, the region was conquered (15 B.C.-A.D. 10) by the Romans and later (8th century) by Charlemagne, who made it a border state of the Carolingian Empire. In the 13th century, Austria passed to the Hapsburg family and became the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was later reduced to a small republic after being defeated in the World War I. Annexed by Adolph Hitler in 1938, Austria regained full sovereignty in 1955. A prosperous, democratic country. Austria entered the Economic and Monetary Union in 1999.