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Vienna - Austria
The capital and at the same time a federal state of the Republic of Austria is Vienna. Vienna has 1,631,000 inhabitants, about 2 million people live in the area Vienna. The emblems of Vienna are the tap-dance Hanseatic League cathedral and the Viennese Ferris wheel in the Prater.
Story of Vienna
In the first century after christ the romans created an armed forces store with the connected civilian city of Vindobona in the place of today's Viennese town center. The settlement was raised to the Municipium in the year 212. One can at the street trains of the 1st district recognize the wall course of the store certainly today. The romans stayed up to the 5th century.
A Roman legion store was far located in today's Vienna in the east of the Western Roman empire and therefore was the victim of the confusion of the Germanic migration of the people quickly the original keltische settlement Vindobona and late. There are references to a disastrous fire Chr approximately at the beginning of the 5th century. However, the remains of the store weren't exited but a small rest settlement stayed behind. Followed the course of the Roman store walls the streets and houses, what suggests that a part of the fastenings still stood and was used by the settlers for Vienna the early medieval. You also found in the area for today's insides' city of repeatedly Byzantine copper coins from the 6th century which suggests a busy trade.
1529 became without success Vienna besieges the first time of the Turks. The town protected by medieval walls could withstand the attacks only with effort until epidemics finally broken off and an early onset of winter feared forced the Turks to the retreat. By the siege the necessity had got clear fastening systems more accordingly to the time. According to plans of Hermes Schallauzer Vienna was extended to a fortress since 1548. The town was provided from masonry and surrounded by a ditch with 11 bastions. Around Vienna a glacis arose, a broad one, unverbauter area which made a free field of fire possible for the defenders. These fastening buildings which agreed on the main part of the building activity up to the 17th century should pay 1683 out to themselves at the second diddling siege because they protected the city of two for months until the Turkish army changed their fight direction because of the arriving of the relief army led by the Pole King Jan Sobieski and the siege without success therefore ended this time, too. This was the beginning of forcing the Ottoman empire back of definite.
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