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The Federal Republic of Austria, created in 1920, is now ranked among the ‘old’ European federal systems. After the breakdown of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1918, its German-speaking crown lands, known as Länder, played an important role in building up the new republic. Yet Austria was initially proclaimed as the Republic of German-Austria in October 1918 by the interim assembly in Vienna—without any Länder. That changed in 1920. Parallel to the creation of the central government, seven of today’s nine Länder, which were surviving entities of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, constituted their own provisional Länder assemblies.
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Bußjäger, P., Schramek, C. (2020). Austria (Federal Republic of Austria). In: Griffiths, A., Chattopadhyay, R., Light, J., Stieren, C. (eds) The Forum of Federations Handbook of Federal Countries 2020. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42088-8_4
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