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Austrian people

Austrians
Österreicher
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Total population
(c. 9 million)
Regions with significant populations
 Austria        7.46 million
 United States 684,184
 Germany 345,620
 Canada 197,990
 Australia 45,530
  Switzerland 40,300–65,090
 United Kingdom 21,600–25,000
 Argentina 17,000
 France 12,500–20,000
 Italy 16,331
 South Africa 14,000
 Spain 10,100
 Brazil 10,000
 Hungary 9,044
 Israel 6,800
 Netherlands 6,600–8,000
 Sweden 4,100–5,936
 Liechtenstein 3,868
 Poland 3,790
 Slovakia 3,154
 Slovenia 3,052
 Belgium 3,020
 Romania 3,000
 Mexico

3,000

Languages
German (Standard: Austrian German; Dialects: Austro-Bavarian and Alemannic)
Religion
Historically:
primarily Roman Catholic
minority Lutheran
Nowadays (2016):
Christian (68%)
Irreligious (24%)
Related ethnic groups
Germanic peoples
(especially Germans, the Swiss and Liechtensteiners)

3,000

c. 7,000

Austrians (German: Österreicher) are a Germanic people and nation, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria, who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent and history. The English term Austrians was applied to the population of Habsburg Austria from the 17th or 18th century. Subsequently, during the 19th century, it referred to the citizens of the Empire of Austria (1804–1867), and from 1867 until 1918 to the citizens of Cisleithania. In the closest sense, the term Austria originally referred to the historical March of Austria, corresponding roughly to the Vienna Basin in what is today Lower Austria.

Historically, Austrians were regarded as ethnic Germans and viewed themselves as such. Austria was part of the Holy Roman Empire and the German Confederation until the Austro-Prussian war in 1866 which resulted in Prussia expelling Austria from the Confederation. Thus, when Germany was founded as a nation-state in 1871, Austria was not a part of it. In 1867, Austria was reformed into the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 at the end of World War I, Austria was reduced to a rump state and adopted and officially used the name the Republic of German-Austria (Republik Deutschösterreich) in an attempt for union with Germany, but was forbidden due to the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919). The First Austrian Republic was founded in 1919. The Third Reich annexed Austria with the Anschluss in 1938.


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