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2020 In Austria
Events in the year 2020 in Austria. Incumbents * President: Alexander Van der Bellen * Chancellor: Brigitte Bierlein (until 7 January); Sebastian Kurz (from 7 January) Governors * Burgenland: Hans Peter Doskozil * Carinthia: Peter Kaiser * Lower Austria: Johanna Mikl-Leitner * Salzburg: Wilfried Haslauer Jr. * Styria: Hermann Schützenhöfer * Tyrol: Günther Platter * Upper Austria: Thomas Stelzer * Vienna: Michael Ludwig * Vorarlberg: Markus Wallner Events *7 January – Sebastian Kurz takes over as Chancellor of Austria, replacing Brigitte Bierlein *9 – 26 January – The 2020 European Men's Handball Championship is hosted by Austria, Norway and Sweden. *20 – 26 January – The 2020 European Figure Skating Championships is held in Graz. Deaths January *3 January – Wolfgang Brezinka, educational scientist (b. 1928). *17 January – Oswald Oberhuber, sculptor and painter (b. 1931). *19 January – Manfred Clynes, Austrian-born Australian-American scientist, invent ...
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Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state. A landlocked country, Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has a population of 9 million. Austria emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium. Originally a margraviate of Bavaria, it developed into a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1156 and was later made an archduchy in 1453. In the 16th century, Vienna began serving as the empire's administrative capital and Austria thus became the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy. After the dissolution of the H ...
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