The Austrian Empire of the Habsburgs had been reconstituted as a dual monarchy by the Compromise of 1867. It … See more

On 21 October 1918, the deputies representing German-speaking areas in the Abgeordnetenhaus, the lower chamber of the Reichsrat, the imperial Parliament of Cisleithania, declared that they were the new … See more

On 22 November, the national assembly officially claimed sovereignty over all the majority-German territory of the former Habsburg realm: a total area of 118,311 km (45,680 sq mi) with 10.4 million inhabitants. This includ… See more

Despite the prohibition of the use of the term "German-Austria", the republic's unofficial national anthem between 1920 and 1929 was "German Austria, you wonderful country" (Deutschösterreich, du herrliches L… See more

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• Barker, Elisabeth (1973). Austria 1918–1972. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 27–28. ISBN 978-0-333-13369-9.
• Beller, Steven (2006). A Concise History of Austria. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52147-886-1… See more