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Complete the sentence about Vienna with the correct year: With the formation of the Austrian Empire in ______, Vienna became the capital of it and all its successor states.
Complete the sentence about Linz with the correct year: In ______, the city was designated a European Capital of Culture.
Complete the sentence about Linz with the correct year: On 15 May ______ he discovered Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Complete the sentence about Salzburg with the correct year: The historic centre was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ______.
Complete the sentence about Innsbruck with the correct year: In ______, the town passed into the hands of the Counts of Tyrol.
Complete the sentence with the correct year: The city's arms show a bird's-eye view of the Inn bridge, a design used since ______.
Complete the sentence about Innsbruck with the correct year: A regular postal service between Innsbruck and Mechelen was established in ______ by the Thurn-und-Taxis-Post.
Complete the sentence about Innsbruck with the correct year: In ______, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria received the rulership over Tyrol and other Further Austrian possessions administered from Inn…
Complete the sentence about Villach with the correct year: In ______, Villach was the first town to be awarded Alpine Town of the Year.
Complete the sentence about Villach with the correct year: In ______ the city area was further enlarged through the incorporation of Landskron, Maria Gail and Fellach.
Complete the sentence about Villach with the correct year: After his death, King Henry II in ______ ceded the settlement to the newly established Bishopric of Bamberg.
Complete the sentence about Sankt Pölten with the correct year: Until ______, St Pölten was part of the diocese of Passau, and then became the property of the state.
Complete the sentence about Dornbirn with the correct year: In ______ Dornbirn became the seat of the new Dornbirn district administrative authority.
Complete the sentence about Wiener Neustadt with the correct year: The area once belonged to the County of Pitten, which had been inherited by Margrave Ottokar III of Styria in ______.
Complete the sentence about Wiener Neustadt with the correct year: In ______, a small Mongol squadron raided Neustadt during the Mongol incursions in the Holy Roman Empire but was later repulsed by Du…
Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, it was the scene of a victory of the Hungarians over the Austrians.
Complete the sentence about Leoben with the correct year: The Peace of Leoben, an armistice between Austria and France preliminary to the Treaty of Campo Formio, was signed in Leoben in ______.
Complete the sentence about Leoben with the correct year: The city parish church, Saint Francis Xavier, built in ______, comprises a 17th-century interior and is considered one of the most significant…
Complete the sentence about Krems an der Donau with the correct year: At the end of the Thirty Years' War, Swedish troops captured Krems in ______ during their invasion of Lower Austria.
Complete the sentence about Krems an der Donau with the correct year: The city was recaptured by Imperial troops under Hans Christoph von Puchheim and Johann Wilhelm von Hunolstein on 5 May ______.
Complete the sentence about Baden bei Wien with the correct year: In ______, the Sauerhof became the first freestanding spa hotel in Europe.
Complete the sentence about Wolfsberg, Austria with the correct year: The castle above the town was first mentioned as Wolfsperch in an ______ deed of St.
Complete the sentence about Wolfsberg, Austria with the correct year: In ______ the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa acquired all Bamberg lands in Carinthia.
Complete the sentence about Wolfsberg, Austria with the correct year: Wolfsberg Castle was purchased by Count Hugo Henckel von Donnersmarck in ______ and rebuilt in a Tudorbethan style.
Complete the sentence about Leonding with the correct year: In ______, Hitler's father died when drinking a glass of wine in a guesthouse in Leonding.
Complete the sentence about Eisenstadt with the correct year: The city's name means "Iron City" and was first recorded in ______ as Castrum ferrum, referring to the history of iron mining and iron tra…
Complete the sentence about Hallstatt with the correct year: Hallstatt is at the core of the Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape declared as one of the World Heritage Sites in Austria…
Complete the sentence about Kitzbühel with the correct year: The first known settlers were Illyrians mining copper in the hills around Kitzbühel between ______ and 800 BC.
Complete the sentence about Kitzbühel with the correct year: Kitzbühel became part of Upper Bavaria in ______ when Bavaria was first partitioned.
Complete the sentence about Kitzbühel with the correct year: Duke Ludwig II of Bavaria granted Kitzbühel town rights on 6 June ______, and it was fortified with defensive town walls.
Complete the sentence about Bad Ischl with the correct year: The Hotel Post, opened in ______, was the first one in the whole Salzkammergut area.
Complete the sentence about Bad Ischl with the correct year: In ______ Franz Karl's son, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria chose the town for his summer residence.
Complete the sentence about Bad Ischl with the correct year: The Saint Nicholas parish church was first mentioned in a ______ deed.
Complete the sentence about Bad Ischl with the correct year: The ruins of Wildenstein Castle, which burnt down in ______, are nearby.
Complete the sentence about Lienz with the correct year: The area of Lienz had been settled since the Bronze Age about ______ BC.
Complete the sentence about Lienz with the correct year: Lienz itself was first mentioned as Luenzina in a deed issued by the Bishop of Brixen about ______.
Complete the sentence about Lienz with the correct year: Located on the important trade route from Venzone in Friuli to Salzburg, the market town of Lienz received city rights on 25 February ______.
Complete the sentence about Schwaz with the correct year: Schwaz received its city rights in ______ by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.
Complete the sentence about Kufstein with the correct year: The Fortress is first documented in ______ as a possession of the Bishop of Regensburg and the Duke of Bavaria.
Complete the sentence about Melk with the correct year: The bluff which holds the current monastery held a Babenberger castle until the site was given to Benedictine monks from nearby Lambach by Leopo…
Complete the sentence about Melk with the correct year: After several metres, the Wiener Straße opens to the restored Rathausplatz, which got its name from the Rathaus built in ______.
Complete the sentence about Melk with the correct year: The Danube reached 15.8 metres above the usual water level in ______.
Complete the sentence about Mödling with the correct year: In ______, Henry the Elder, son of Henry II Jasomirgott, became landlord in an area reaching from Liesing to Piesting and Bruck an der Leitha…
Complete the sentence about Mödling with the correct year: In ______, Duke Albrecht II granted the rights of a market town to Mödling.
Complete the sentence about Mödling with the correct year: In ______, the Ottomans devastated Mödling for the first time during their first siege of Vienna.
Complete the sentence about Amstetten, Austria with the correct year: In ______, the town was linked to the rest of Austria-Hungary by railroad.
Complete the sentence about Lustenau with the correct year: Until ______, Lustenau was an independent county ruled over by the Counts of Waldburg-Zeil-Lustenau-Hohenems.
Complete the sentence about Lustenau with the correct year: In ______, the county lost its Imperial immediacy and was mediatised to Bavaria.
Complete the sentence about Hohenems with the correct year: In ______ both castles were destroyed during the Appenzell Wars, but rebuilt shortly afterwards.
Complete the sentence about Hohenems with the correct year: The Jewish community in Hohenems had its beginnings with a charter in ______.
Complete the sentence about Bludenz with the correct year: The town was established by the comital Werdenberg dynasty; town privileges were granted in ______.
Complete the sentence about Bludenz with the correct year: A stay by the Habsburg Duke Frederick IV of Austria, who had just received an imperial ban at the Council of Constance, is documented from 30…
Complete the sentence about Bludenz with the correct year: At the end of World War One, the region voted against joining Switzerland in the ______ Vorarlberg annexation referendum, being one of only t…
Complete the sentence about Spittal an der Drau with the correct year: Together with the Ortenburg estates, Spittal in ______ was inherited by Count Hermann II of Celje.
Complete the sentence about Spittal an der Drau with the correct year: From ______ onwards, the Counts of Salamanca-Ortenburg had Schloss Porcia erected on the main square as their residence.
Complete the sentence about Spittal an der Drau with the correct year: In ______ the Carinthian Khevenhüller noble family had a residence erected opposite the castle, nowadays serving as the town hall…
Complete the sentence about Ried im Innkreis with the correct year: Ried was first mentioned on 13 November ______, as a castle of the Bavarian sovereign with the seat of the noble house of Ried.
Complete the sentence about Ried im Innkreis with the correct year: Already in ______, the townsmen of Ried were first mentioned in records, indicating a settlement near the castle.
Complete the sentence about Ried im Innkreis with the correct year: The line of the lords of Ried ended around ______ and the Bavarian dukes took over the area.
Complete the sentence about Ried im Innkreis with the correct year: Přemysl, and it was again conquered on 24 September ______ by Rudolf IV. der Stifter and destroyed.
Complete the sentence about Ried im Innkreis with the correct year: The First Treaty of Ried, negotiated in ______, halted these border conflicts for the time being.
Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Ried obtained its own coat of arms from Duke Henry XVI of Bavaria.
Complete the sentence about Ried im Innkreis with the correct year: But by ______, the Counter-Reformation had been completed, which led many to emigrate.
Complete the sentence about Braunau am Inn with the correct year: Braunau received town rights in ______, one of the first in present-day Austria.
Complete the sentence about Waidhofen an der Ybbs with the correct year: Rothschildschloss: A castle has existed on this site inside the Old City since the twelfth century, although the oldest portion…
Complete the sentence about Mariazell with the correct year: In ______, Emperor Conrad II gave his sister-in-law Beatrix, married to Adalbero of Eppenstein, parts of the county in the Mürztale as a gi…
Complete the sentence about Mariazell with the correct year: Eberhard, Archbishop of Salzburg, decided in ______ in favor of the Monastery of St.
Complete the sentence about Ischgl with the correct year: The bar was eventually closed on 10 March and the whole town quarantined from 13 March until 22 April ______.
Complete the sentence about St. Anton am Arlberg with the correct year: Anton was shown in the ______ film Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford and Gene Hackman.
Complete the sentence about Sölden with the correct year: A building on the site of the Berghof was first mentioned in ______.
Complete the sentence about Seefeld in Tirol with the correct year: The pilot project by Telesystem Tirol for cable TV was conducted in ______ by a family firm based in Auland.
Complete the sentence about Schönbrunn Palace with the correct year: In ______, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II purchased a large floodplain of the Wien river beneath a hill, situated between Meidlin…
Complete the sentence about Schönbrunn Palace with the correct year: Following the downfall of the Habsburg monarchy in November ______, the palace became the property of the newly founded Austrian Re…
Complete the sentence about Schönbrunn Palace with the correct year: During World War II, the palace was bombed by American warplanes in February ______.
Complete the sentence about Hofburg with the correct year: Since ______, it has been the official residence and workplace of the president of Austria.
Complete the sentence about Hofburg with the correct year: Since ______, the Hofburg area has been the documented seat of government.
Complete the sentence about Hofburg with the correct year: In September ______, parts of the Hofburg were opened to the public as a convention centre.
Complete the sentence about Belvedere, Vienna with the correct year: Records indicate that construction of the Lower Belvedere had begun by ______.
Complete the sentence about Belvedere, Vienna with the correct year: Prince Eugene submitted a request for a building inspection on 5 July ______.
Complete the sentence about Hohensalzburg Fortress with the correct year: Construction of the current fortress began in ______ under Archbishop Gebhard von Helfenstein.
Complete the sentence about Hohensalzburg Fortress with the correct year: The ring walls and towers were built in ______ under Prince-Archbishop Burkhard II von Weißpriach.
Complete the sentence about Hohensalzburg Fortress with the correct year: In ______ the deposed Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau died in the fortress prison.
Complete the sentence about Melk Abbey with the correct year: The abbey was founded in ______ when Leopold II, Margrave of Austria gave one of his castles to Benedictine monks from Lambach Abbey.
Complete the sentence about Melk Abbey with the correct year: Since ______ the abbey has been a member of the Austrian Congregation, now within the Benedictine Confederation.
Complete the sentence about Heiligenkreuz Abbey with the correct year: The monastery of Neukloster at Wiener-Neustadt was joined to Heiligenkreuz in ______.
Complete the sentence about Klosterneuburg Monastery with the correct year: From ______ on, the Habsburg rulers had the facilities rebuilt in the Baroque style, continued by the architects Jakob Prand…
Complete the sentence about Klosterneuburg Monastery with the correct year: In ______, the abbey church and monastery were restored according to plans by Friedrich von Schmidt, and the neo-Gothic twin…
Complete the sentence about Klosterneuburg Monastery with the correct year: Klosterneuburg Monastery contains the Verduner Altar, made in ______ by Nicholas of Verdun.
Complete the sentence about Schloss Esterházy with the correct year: After the death of Count Ladislaus Esterházy in the battle of Vezekény in ______, his younger brother Paul inherited the palace.
Complete the sentence about Grossglockner with the correct year: The name Glocknerer is first documented in a ______ map designed by the Viennese cartographer Wolfgang Lazius.
Complete the sentence about Grossglockner with the correct year: The denotation Glogger is mentioned in a ______ description of the Tyrolean Kals legal district, then referring to the whole ridge sout…
Complete the sentence about Grossglockner with the correct year: The region around the mountain has formed part of the Grossglockner-Pasterze special protected area within the High Tauern National Par…
Complete the sentence about Grossglockner with the correct year: On 28 July ______, 62 people, among them the pedagogue Franz Michael Vierthaler and the botanist David Heinrich Hoppe, started again in…
Complete the sentence about Großglockner High Alpine Road with the correct year: The popular overlook was named after a visit by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and his consort Elisabeth in ______.
Complete the sentence about Großglockner High Alpine Road with the correct year: The impulse to build a road, intended to open the barren alpine valleys to motorized tourism, was sparked by the New Yo…
Complete the sentence about Großglockner High Alpine Road with the correct year: On 30 August ______ at 9:30 am, the first explosives roared in Ferleiten.
Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: The Middle Mongolian name for the Danube was transliterated as Tho-na in ______ by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat.
Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: The amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million tons in ______.
Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: In ______, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of three bridges in Serbia during the Kosovo War.
Complete the sentence about Traun with the correct year: In ______, a large prehistoric cemetery was discovered close by the current location of Hallstatt.

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