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Austrian people (918 words) |
 | Count Aeneas Sylvius de Caprara (1631- February 1701), also known as Enea Silvio, was an Austrian field marshal during the War of the League of Augsburg as well as a decedent of generals Raimondo Montecuccoli and Ottavio Piccolomini. |
| Ignaz Franz Castelli (1781- 1862) was an Austrian dramatist born at Vienna on the 6th of March 1781. |
| Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle (1825-1892), Austrian poet and scholar, was born, the son of the Roman Catholic theologian and orientalist Pius Zingerle (1801-1881), at Meran-Merano on the 6th of June 1825. |
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Austria (818 words) |
| The Austrian parliament consists of two chambers, the Bundesrat (federal council), which consists of 64 representatives of the states, based on population, and the Nationalrat (national council), which has 183 directly elected members. |
| About ten percent of the Austrians are of non-Austrian descent, many from surrounding countries, especially from the former East Bloc nations. |
| The official language, German, is spoken by everybody; the dialect is similar to that spoken in southern Germany. |
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