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District - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (2078 words) |
 | In Austria, a district is an administrative subdivision normally encompassing several municipalities, roughly equivalent to the Landkreis in Germany. |
| In Alberta, the district (known as municipal districts) acts like a county or a city but not like the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia, all districts and counties are part of census subdivisions of their respective census divisions. |
| A district ("amphoe") is a subdivision of a Province ("changwat") in Thailand. |
| 1938: Austria - Archive Article - MSN Encarta (3423 words) |
| In November 1937, the twenty-fifth birthday of the Habsburg Prince Otto, the pretender to the throne, was used for a demonstration by the Legitimists, the adherents of a Habsburg restoration. |
| The occupation of Austria, with its large and influential Jewish population in Vienna, led to a rapid intensification of the anti-Jewish measures of the Nazi Government. |
| These measures hit the Jewish population of Austria infinitely harder than they had the German Jewish population, for in Germany in 1933 they were introduced gradually and had only progressively led to the complete exclusion of the Jews from the economic and social life of the country. |
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