Coordinates	29°25′″N98°30′″N
Name	Vienna
Native name	Wien
Image shield	Wien Wappen.svg
Shield size	80px
Image seal	Vienna seal 1926.svg
Map caption	Location of Vienna in Austria
Pushpin map	Austria
Pushpin label position	left
Coordinates region	AT
Subdivision type	Country
Subdivision type1	State
Subdivision name	Austria
Subdivision name1	Wien
Leader title	Bürgermeister
Leader name	Michael Häupl (SPÖ)
Leader title1	Vizebürgermeisterin
Leader name1	Maria Vassilakou (Grüne)
Area total km2	414.65
Area land km2	395.26
Area water km2	19.39
Population as of	2011
Population total	1714200
Population density km2	auto
Population urban	1983836
Population metro	ca. 2419000
Population note	Statistik Austria, VCÖ – Mobilität mit Zukunft
Timezone	CET
Utc offset	+1
Timezone dst	CEST
Utc offset dst	+2
Elevation m	151 (Lobau) – 542 (Hermannskogel)
Elevation ft	495–1778
Website	www.wien.gv.at
Footnotes	}}

Whs	Historic Centre of Vienna
State party
Type	Cultural
Criteria	ii, iv, vi
Id	1033
Region	Europe and North America
Year	2001
Link	http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1033 }}

Vienna (; ;) is the capital of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.714 million (2.4 million within the metropolitan area, more than 25% of Austria's population), and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 10th-largest city by population in the European Union. Vienna is host to many major international organizations, such as the United Nations and OPEC.

Vienna lies in the east of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. These regions work together in a European Centrope border region. Along with nearby Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants, and this region is referred to as Twin City. In 2001, the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first (in a tie with Vancouver, Canada) for quality of life. This assessment was mirrored by the Mercer Survey in 2009 and 2010. Analytically, the city was ranked 1st globally for a culture of innovation in 2007 and 2008, and 2nd globally after Boston in 2009 from 256 cities on an analysis of 162 indicators in the Innovation Cities Index on a 3-factor score covering culture, infrastructure and markets. As a city, Vienna regularly hosts urban planning conferences and is often used as a case study by urban planners.

This city rates highly in popular opinion-based journalistic rankings from magazines such as the ''Economist Intelligence Unit'', whom rated it the second best city in which to live according to their Global Livability Survey in 2011 as well as ''Monocle'', where it is rated 8th among the "Top 25 Livable Cities" in 2010.

Name

The English name ''Vienna'', the official German name ''Wien'', and the names of the city in most languages, are thought to be derived from the Celtic word "windu", meaning bright or fair – as in the Irish "fionn" – but opinions vary on the precise origin. Some claim that the name comes from ''Vedunia'', meaning "forest stream," which subsequently became Venia, Wienne and Wien. Others claim that the name comes from the Roman settlement ''Vindobona'', probably meaning "white base/bottom," which became Vindovina, Vídeň (Czech) and Wien.

The name of the city in Hungarian (''Bécs''), Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (''Beč'') and Ottoman Turkish (''Beç'') appears to have a different, Slavonic origin. In Slovene, the city is called ''Dunaj'', which in other Slavic languages means the Danube River, on which it is located.

History

thumb|center|600px|Vienna in 1493 (from the Nuremberg Chronicle).

Evidence of continuous habitation has been found since 500 BC, when the site of Vienna on the Danube River was settled by the Celts. In 15 BC, the Romans fortified the frontier city they called Vindobona, to guard the empire against Germanic tribes to the north.

thumb|[[Ancient Rome|Roman ruins at Michaelerplatz]]Close ties with other Celtic peoples continued down through the ages with such figures as the eighth-century Irish monks like Saint Colman (or Koloman), who is buried in Melk Abbey and Saint Fergil (Virgil the Geometer) who was Bishop of Salzburg for forty years, to the twelfth century monastic settlements founded by Irish Benedictines. Echoes of that time are still evident in Vienna's great Schottenstift monastery, once home to many Irish monks.

In the 13th century, Vienna came under threat from the Mongolian Empire, which stretched over much of present-day Russia and China. Due to the death of their leader Ogedei Khan, the Mongolian armies retreated from the European frontier and did not return.

During the Middle Ages, Vienna was home to the Babenberg dynasty; in 1440, it became the resident city of the Habsburg dynasties. It eventually grew to become the ''de facto'' capital of the Holy Roman Empire and a cultural centre for arts and science, music and fine cuisine. Hungary occupied the city between 1485–1490.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Ottoman armies were stopped twice outside Vienna (see Siege of Vienna, 1529 and Battle of Vienna, 1683). A plague epidemic ravaged Vienna in 1679, killing nearly a third of its population.

Austro-Hungarian Empire

In 1804, during the Napoleonic wars, Vienna became the capital of the Austrian Empire and continued to play a major role in European and world politics, including hosting the 1814 Congress of Vienna. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, Vienna remained the capital of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city was a centre of classical music, for which the title of the First Viennese School is sometimes applied.

thumb|260px|View of Vienna in 1758, by Bernardo BellottoDuring the latter half of the 19th century, the city developed what had previously been the bastions and glacis into the Ringstraße, a new boulevard surrounding the historical town and a major prestige project. Former suburbs were incorporated, and the city of Vienna grew dramatically. In 1918, after World War I, Vienna became capital of the First Austrian Republic.

From the late 19th century to 1938, the city remained a centre of high culture and modernism. A world capital of music, the city played host to composers such as Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss. The city's cultural contributions in the first half of the 20th century included, amongst many, the Vienna Secession movement, psychoanalysis, the Second Viennese School, the architecture of Adolf Loos and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Within Austria, it was seen as a centre of socialist politics, for which it was sometimes referred to as "Red Vienna". The city was a stage to the Austrian Civil War of 1934, when Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss sent the Austrian Army to shell civilian housing occupied by the socialist militia.

The Anschluss and World War II

thumb|260px|Vienna in 1900In 1938, after a triumphant entry into Austria, Adolf Hitler spoke to the Austrian people from the balcony of the Neue Burg, a part of the Hofburg at the Heldenplatz. Between 1938 (''see Anschluss'') and the end of the Second World War, Vienna lost its status as a capital to Berlin.

On 2 April 1945, the Soviets launched the Vienna Offensive against the Germans holding the city and besieged it. British and American air raids and artillery duels between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army crippled infrastructure, such as tram services and water and power distribution, and destroyed or damaged thousands of public and private buildings. Vienna fell two weeks later. Austria was separated from Germany, and Vienna was restored as the republic's capital city.

Four-power Vienna

thumb|right|300px|Occupation zones in Vienna, 1945–55After the war, Vienna was surrounded by the Soviet-occupied zone. As in Berlin, Vienna was divided into sectors by the four powers and supervised by an Allied Commission. The four-power occupation of Vienna differed in one key respect from that of Berlin: the central area of the city, known as the first district, constituted an international zone in which the four powers alternated control on a monthly basis. The Berlin Blockade of 1948 raised allied concerns that the Russians might repeat the blockade in Vienna. The matter was raised in the UK House of Commons,

There were a lack of airfields in the Western sectors, and authorities drafted contingency plans to deal with such a blockade. Plans included the laying down of metal landing mats at Schönbrunn. The Soviets did not embark on a wholesale blockade of the city. Some historians have argued that the Potsdam Agreement included written rights of land access to the western sectors, whereas no such written guarantees had covered the western sectors of Berlin. During the 10 years of the four-power occupation, Vienna became a hot-bed for international espionage between the Western and Eastern blocs. In the wake of the Berlin Blockade, the Cold War in Vienna took on a different dynamic. While accepting that Germany and Berlin would be divided, the Russians had decided against allowing the same state of affairs to arise in Austria and Vienna.

They put up barbed wire fences around the perimeter of West Berlin in 1953, but not in Vienna. By 1955, the Russians agreed to relinquish their occupation zones in Eastern Austria, and East Vienna, as well as their sector in the fourth and tenth districts in South Vienna. In exchange they required a permanent neutrality clause to be enshrined into the new Austrian State Treaty. In 1955, the Russians pulled out of Austria.

The atmosphere of four-power Vienna is captured in the Graham Greene screenplay for the film ''The Third Man'' (1949), directed by Carol Reed. Later he adapted the screenplay as a novel and published it. Occupied Vienna is also colourfully depicted in the Philip Kerr novel, "A German Requiem."

Austrian State Treaty

The four-power control of Vienna lasted until the Austrian State Treaty was signed in 1955. That year, after years of reconstruction and restoration, the State Opera and the Burgtheater, both on the Ringstraße, reopened to the public. The State Treaty ensured that modern Austria would align with neither NATO nor the Soviet bloc, and is considered one of the reasons for Austria's late entry into the European Union.

In the 1970s, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky inaugurated the Vienna International Centre, a new area of the city created to host international institutions. Vienna has regained a part of its former international stature by hosting international organizations, such as the United Nations (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United Nations Office at Vienna and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Historical population

Due to the industrialization and migration from other parts of the Empire, the population of Vienna increased sharply during its time as the capital of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918). In 1910, Vienna had more than two million inhabitants, and was one of the six largest cities in the world. At the turn of the century, Vienna (Czech ''Vídeň'', Hungarian ''Bécs'') was the city with the second-largest Czech population in the world (after Prague). At the height of the migration, about one-third of the Viennese population was of Slavic or Hungarian origin. After World War I, many Czechs and Hungarians returned to their ancestral countries, resulting in a decline in the Viennese population.

In 1923 there were 201,513 Jews living in Vienna, which had become the third-largest Jewish community in Europe. Most were deported and killed in concentration camps by Nazi and Austrian forces.

By 2001, 16% of people living in Austria had nationalities other than Austrian, nearly half of whom were from former Yugoslavia, primarily Serbs; the next most numerous nationalities in Vienna were Turks (39,000; 2.5%), Poles (13,600; 0.9%) and Germans (12,700; 0.8%).

:{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" ! Year | 1754 || 1800 || 1850 || 1900 || 1910 || 1923 || 1939 |- ! Totalpopulation | 175,460 || 271,800 || 551,300 || 1,769,137 || 2,083,630 || 1,918,720 || 1,770,938 |- | colspan="8" | |- ! Year | 1951 || 1961 || 1971 || 1981 || 1991 || 2001 || 2008 |- ! Totalpopulation | 1,616,125 || 1,627,566 || 1,619,885 || 1,531,346 || 1,539,848 || 1,550,123 || 1,678,435 |}

Geography and climate

Vienna is located in northeastern Austria, at the easternmost extension of the Alps in the Vienna Basin. The earliest settlement, at the location of today's inner city, was south of the meandering Danube while the city now spans both sides of the river. Elevation ranges from .

Vienna lies within a transition of oceanic climate and humid continental climate according to the Köppen classification. The city has warm summers with average high temperatures of , with maxima exceeding and lows of around . Winters are relatively cold with average temperatures at about freezing point, and snowfall occurring mainly from December through March. Spring and autumn are cool to mild. Precipitation is generally moderate throughout the year, averaging 620 mm (24.4 inches) annually.

Districts and enlargement

Vienna is composed of 23 districts (''Bezirke''). Administrative district offices in Vienna (called Magistratisches Bezirksamt) serve similar to those in the other states (called Bezirkshauptmannschaft), the officers being subject to the Landeshauptmann (which in Vienna is the mayor); with the exception of the police, which in Vienna is governed by the President of the Police (at the same time one of the nine Directors of Security of Austria), a federal office, directly responsible to the Minister of the Interior.

As had been planned in 1919 for all of Austria but not introduced, the district residents in Vienna (Austrians as well as EU citizens with permanent residence here) are electing a District Assembly (Bezirksvertretung) which chooses the District Head (Bezirksvorsteher) as political representative of the district on city level. City hall has delegated maintenance budgets, e.g., for schools and parks, so that they are able to set priorities autonomously. Any decision of a district can be overridden by the city assembly (Gemeinderat) or the responsible city councillor (amtsführender Stadrat).

thumb|Map of the districts of Vienna with numbersThe heart and historical city of Vienna, a large part of today's Innere Stadt, was a fortress and surrounded by fields in order to defend itself from potential attackers. In 1850, Vienna with the consent of the emperor included 34 surrounding villages, called Vorstädte, into the city limits (districts no. 2 to 8, since 1861 with the separation of Margareten from Wieden no. 2 to 9). Consequently the walls were razed after 1857, making it possible for the city centre to expand.

In their place, a broad boulevard called the Ringstraße was built, along which imposing public and private buildings, monuments, and parks were created until the turn of the century. These buildings include the Rathaus (town hall), the Burgtheater, the University, the Parliament, the twin museums of natural history and fine art, and the Staatsoper. It is also the location of New Wing of the Hofburg, the former imperial palace, and the Imperial and Royal War Ministry finished in 1913. The mainly Gothic Stephansdom is located at the centre of the city, on Stephansplatz. The Imperial-Royal Government set up the Vienna City Renovation Fund (Wiener Stadterneuerungsfonds) and sold many building lots to private investors, thereby partly financing public construction works.

From 1850 to 1890, city limits in the West and the South have mainly followed another wall called Linienwall. Outside this wall from 1873 onwards a ring road called Gürtel was built. In 1890 it was decided to integrate 33 suburbs (called Vororte) beyond that wall into Vienna by 1 January 1892 and transform them into districts no. 11 to 19 (district no. 10 had been constituted in 1874); hence the Linienwall was torn down from 1894 onwards. In 1900, district no. 20, Brigittenau, was created by separating the area from the 2nd district. From 1850 to 1904, Vienna had expanded only on the right bank of the Danube, following the main branch before the regulation of 1868–1875, i.e., the Old Danube of today. In 1904, the 21st district was created by integrating Floridsdorf, Kagran, Stadlau, Hirschstetten, Aspern and other villages on the left bank of the Danube into Vienna, in 1910 Strebersdorf followed. On 15 October 1938 the Nazis created Great Vienna with 26 districts by merging 97 cities and villages into Vienna, 80 of which have returned to surrounding Lower Austria in 1954. Since then Vienna has 23 districts.

Industries are located mostly in the southern and eastern districts. The Innere Stadt is situated away from the main flow of the Danube, but is bounded by the ''Donaukanal'' ("Danube canal"). Vienna's second and twentieth districts are located between the Donaukanal and the Danube River. Across the Danube, where the Vienna International Centre is located, and in the southernmost area are the newest parts of the city (districts 21–23).

Politics

Until 1918, Viennese politics were shaped by the Christian Social Party, in particular long-term mayor Karl Lueger. Vienna is today considered the centre of the Social Democratic Party of Austria. During the period of the First Republic (1918–1934), the Vienna Social Democrats undertook many overdue social reforms. At that time, Vienna's municipal policy was admired by Socialists throughout Europe, who therefore referred to the city as "Red Vienna" (''Rotes Wien''). In February 1934 troops of the Conservative Austrian federal government and paramilitary socialist organisations were engaged in the Austrian civil war, which led to the ban of the Social Democrat party.

For most of the time since the First World War, the city has been governed by the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) with absolute majorities in the city parliament. Only between 1934 and 1945, when the Social Democratic Party was illegal, mayors were appointed by the austro-fascist and later by the Nazi authorities. The current mayor of Vienna is Michael Häupl. The Social Democrats currently hold 55% of the seats with a 49% share of the vote. Many Austrian political experts believe that if not for the Social Democrats' nearly unbreakable hold on Vienna, the rival Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) would dominate Austrian politics.

An example of the city’s many social democratic policies is its low-cost residential estates called ''Gemeindebauten''.

Ever since Vienna obtained federal state (''Bundesland'') status of its own in 1921, the mayor has also had the role of the state governor (''Landeshauptmann''). The Rathaus accommodates the offices of the mayor and the state government (''Landesregierung''). The city is administered by a multitude of departments (''Magistratsabteilungen'').

In the 1996 City Council election, the SPÖ lost its overall majority in the 100-seat chamber, winning 43 seats and 39.15% of the vote. In 1996 the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), which won 29 seats (up from 21 in 1991), beat the ÖVP into third place for the second time running. From 1996–2001, the SPÖ governed Vienna in a coalition with the ÖVP. In 2001 the SPÖ regained the overall majority with 52 seats and 46.91% of the vote; in October 2005 this majority was increased further to 55 seats (49.09%). In course of the 2010 city council elections the SPÖ lost their overall majority again and consequently forged a coalition with the Green Party – the first SPÖ/Green coalition in Austria.

Religions

Vienna is the seat of the Viennese Roman Catholic archdiocese, and its current Archbishop is Cardinal Christoph Schönborn. The religions of the Viennese resident population is divided according to the 2001 census as follows: {| |- |Roman Catholic |49.2% |- |No religion |25.7% |- |Muslim |7.8% |- |Orthodox |6.0% |- |Protestant (mostly Lutheran) |4.7% |- |Jewish |0.5% |- |Other or none indicated |6.3% |}

Many Roman Catholic churches in central Vienna also feature performances of religious or other music, including masses sung to classical music and organ. Some of Vienna's most significant historical buildings are Roman Catholic churches, including the Stephansdom (St. Stephen's Cathedral), the Karlskirche (St. Charles' Church) and the Votivkirche.

As of 2010, the percentage of Catholics dropped to under 50%. In 1961, there were still about 90% Catholics.

Culture

Music, theatre and opera

Art and culture have a long tradition in Vienna, including theatre, opera, classical music and fine arts. The Burgtheater is considered one of the best theatres in the German-speaking world alongside its branch, the Akademietheater. The Volkstheater Wien and the Theater in der Josefstadt also enjoy good reputations. There is also a multitude of smaller theatres, in many cases devoted to less mainstream forms of the performing arts, such as modern, experimental plays or cabaret.

Vienna is also home to a number of opera houses, including the Theater an der Wien, the Staatsoper and the Volksoper, the latter being devoted to the typical Viennese operetta. Classical concerts are performed at well known venues such as the Wiener Musikverein, home of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Wiener Konzerthaus. Many concert venues offer concerts aimed at tourists, featuring popular highlights of Viennese music (particularly the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Strauss).

In recent years, the Theatre an der Wien has become widely known for hosting premieres of musicals, although it has recently devoted itself to the opera again. The most successful musical by far was "Elisabeth", which was later translated into several other languages and performed all over the world. The Haus der Musik ("house of music") opened in 2000.

The Wienerlied is a unique and very popular song genre from Vienna. There are approximately 60,000 – 70,000 Wienerlieder

Musicians from Vienna

Many notable musicians were born in Vienna, here is a list of several.

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Gerhard Potuznik

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Arnold Schönberg

Museums

thumb|MuseumsquartierThe Hofburg is the location of the Schatzkammer (treasury), holding the imperial jewels of the Habsburg dynasty. The Sisi Museum (a museum devoted to Empress Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie of Austria) allows visitors to view the imperial apartments as well as the silver cabinet. Directly opposite the Hofburg are the ''Kunsthistorisches Museum'', which houses many paintings by old masters, ancient and classical artifacts, and the ''Naturhistorisches Museum''.

A number of museums are located in the Museumsquartier (museum quarter), the former Imperial Stalls which were converted into a museum complex in the 1990s. It houses the Museum of Modern Art, commonly known as the MUMOK (Ludwig Foundation), the Leopold Museum (featuring the largest collection of paintings in the world by Egon Schiele, as well as works by the Vienna Secession, Viennese Modernism and Austrian Expressionism), the AzW (museum of architecture), additional halls with feature exhibitions, and the Tanzquartier. The Liechtenstein Palace contains one of the world's largest private art collections of the baroque. Castle Belvedere, built under Prinz Eugen, has a gallery containing paintings by Gustav Klimt (The Kiss), Egon Schiele, and other painters of the early 20th century, also sculptures by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, and changing exhibitions too.

There are a multitude of other museums in Vienna, including the Albertina, the Military History Museum, the Technical Museum, the Burial Museum, the Museum of Art Fakes, the KunstHausWien, the Sigmund Freud Museum, and the Mozarthaus Vienna. The museums on the history of the city, including the former Historical Museum of the City of Vienna on Karlsplatz, the Hermesvilla, the residences and birthplaces of various composers, the Museum of the Romans, and the Vienna Clock Museum, are now gathered together under the group umbrella Vienna Museum. The museums dedicated to Vienna's districts provide a retrospective of the respective districts.

Architecture

thumb|250px||Palais Ferstl A variety of architectural styles can be found in Vienna, such as the Romanesque Ruprechtskirche and the Baroque Karlskirche. Styles range from classicist buildings to modern architecture. Art Nouveau left many architectural traces in Vienna. The Secession, Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station, and the Kirche am Steinhof by Otto Wagner rank among the best known examples of Art Nouveau in the world.

Concurrent to the Art Nouveau movement was the Wiener Moderne, during which some architects shunned the use of extraneous adornment. A key architect of this period was Adolf Loos, whose works include the Looshaus (1909), the Kärntner Bar or American Bar (1908) and the Steiner House (1910).

The Hundertwasserhaus by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, designed to counter the clinical look of modern architecture, is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions. Another example of unique architecture is the Wotrubakirche by sculptor Fritz Wotruba. In the 1990s, a number of quarters were adapted and extensive building projects were implemented in the areas around Donaustadt (north of the Danube) and Wienerberg (in southern Vienna). The 202 m-high Millennium Tower located at Handelskai is the highest building in Vienna. In recent years, Vienna has seen numerous architecture projects completed which combine modern architectural elements with old buildings, such as the remodelling and revitalisation of the old Gasometer in 2001. Most buildings in Vienna are relatively low; in early 2006 there were around 100 buildings higher than 40 m. The number of high-rise buildings is kept low by building legislation aimed at preserving green areas and districts designated as world cultural heritage. Strong rules apply to the planning, authorisation and construction of high-rise buildings. Consequently, much of the inner city is a high-rise free zone.

Vienna balls

Vienna is the last great capital of the nineteenth century ball. There are over 200 significant balls per year, some featuring as many as nine live orchestras. Balls are held in the many beautiful palaces in Vienna, with the principal venue being the Hofburg Palace at Heldenplatz. While the Opera Ball is the best known internationally of all the Austrian balls, other balls such as the Kaffeesiederball (Cafe Owners Ball), the Jägerball (Hunter's Ball), Life Ball (AIDS Charity Event) and the Rudolfina Redoute are almost as well known within Austria and even better appreciated for their cordial atmosphere. Viennese of at least middle class may visit a number of balls in their lifetime. For many, the ball season lasts three months and can include up to ten or fifteen separate appearances.

Dancers and opera singers from the Vienna Staatsoper often perform at the openings of the larger balls.

A Vienna ball is an all-night cultural attraction. Major Viennese balls generally begin at 9 pm and last until 5 am, although many guests carry on the celebrations into the next day.

Sub and Youth Culture

Some known venues and art spaces of the city are Arena, Flex, Mo.ë, Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus and WUK. Arena and Flex are mainly focused on live of pop music acts (indie, techno, rock, etc.), while Mo.ë, Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus (EKH) and WUK have a stronger focus on contemporary visual arts, modern dance and experimental music. The Volxtheater Favoriten is based out of the Ernst Kirchweger Haus. Since May 2001, the Publixtheatre Caravan has been creating international travelling informational, media, and artistic campaigns, to squat reality by directly interposing theater and artistic installations into everyday life.

Education

Vienna is also Austria's main centre of education and home to many universities, professional colleges and gymnasiums (high schools).

Universities

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Diplomatic Academy of Vienna

Medical University of Vienna

PEF Private University of Management Vienna

University of Applied Arts Vienna

University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

University of Vienna

Vienna University of Economics and Business

University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna

Vienna University of Technology

Webster University Vienna

International Anti-Corruption Academy (in Laxenburg, 24 km south of Vienna)

International schools

American International School Vienna

Danube International School

International University Vienna

Lycée Français de Vienne

Vienna Christian School

Vienna International School

Lauder Business School

Leisure activities

Viennese parks and gardens

Vienna possesses many park facilities, including the ''Stadtpark'', the ''Burggarten'', the ''Volksgarten'' (part of the ''Hofburg''), the ''Schloßpark'' at Schloss Belvedere (home to the Vienna Botanic Gardens), the ''Donaupark'', the ''Schönbrunner Schlosspark'', the ''Prater'', the ''Augarten'', the ''Rathauspark'', the ''Lainzer Tiergarten'', the ''Dehnepark'', the ''Resselpark'', the ''Votivpark'', the ''Kurpark Oberlaa'', the ''Auer-Welsbach-Park'' and the ''Türkenschanzpark''. Green areas include ''Laaer-Berg'' (including the Bohemian Prater) and the foothills of the ''Wienerwald'', which reaches into the outer areas of the city. Small parks, known by the Viennese as ''Beserlparks'', are everywhere in the inner city areas. Many of Vienna's famous parks include monuments, such as the Stadtpark with its statue of Johann Strauss II, and the gardens of the baroque palace, where the State Treaty was signed. Vienna's principal park is the Prater which is home to the Riesenrad, a Ferris wheel. The imperial Schönbrunn's grounds contain an 18th century park which includes the world's oldest zoo, founded in 1752. The Donauinsel, part of Vienna's flood defences, is a 21.1 km long artificial island between the Danube and Neue Donau dedicated to leisure activities.

Sport

Vienna hosts many different sporting events including the Vienna City Marathon, which attracts more than 10,000 participants every year and normally takes place in May. In 2005 the Ice Hockey World Championships took place in Austria and the final was played in Vienna. Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium was the venue of four Champions League and European Champion Clubs' Cup finals (1964, 1987, 1990 and 1995) and on 29 June it hosted the final of Euro 2008 which saw a Spanish 1–0 victory over Germany.

Austria's capital is home to numerous teams. The best known are the local football clubs FK Austria Wien (21 whole-Austrian Austrian Bundesliga titles and record 27-time cup winners) SK Rapid Wien (record 32 whole-Austrian Austrian Bundesliga titles), and the oldest team, First Vienna FC. Other important sport clubs include the Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna (American Football), who won the Eurobowl title between 2004 and 2007 4 times in a row, the Aon hotVolleys Vienna, one of Europe's premier Volleyball organisations, the Superfund Wanderers (baseball) who won the 2009 Championship of the Austrian Baseball League, and the Vienna Capitals (Ice Hockey). Vienna was also where the European Handball Federation (EHF) was founded. There are also three rugby clubs; Vienna Celtic, the oldest rugby club in Austria, RC Donau, and Stade Viennois

Culinary specialities

Food

Vienna is well known for ''Wiener Schnitzel'', a cutlet of ''veal'' that is pounded flat, coated in flour, egg and breadcrumbs, and fried in clarified butter. It is available in almost every restaurant that serves Viennese cuisine. Other examples of Viennese cuisine include ''Tafelspitz'' (very lean boiled beef), which is traditionally served with ''Geröstete Erdäpfel'' (boiled potatoes mashed with a fork and subsequently fried) and horseradish sauce, ''Apfelkren'' (a mixture of horseradish, cream and apple) and ''Schnittlauchsauce'' (a chives sauce made with mayonnaise and old bread).

Vienna has a long tradition of producing the finest cakes and desserts. These include ''Apfelstrudel'' (hot apple strudel), ''Millirahmstrudel'' (milk-cream strudel), ''Palatschinken'' (sweet pancakes), and ''Knödel'' (dumplings) often filled with fruit such as apricots (''Marillenknödel''). Sachertorte, a dry chocolate cake with apricot jam created by the Sacher Hotel, is world famous.

In winter, small street stands sell traditional ''Maroni'' (hot chestnuts) and potato fritters.

Sausages are popular and available from street vendors (''Würstelstand'') throughout the day and into the night. The sausage known as ''Wiener'' (German for Viennese) in the US and Germany is, however, called ''Frankfurter''. Other popular sausages are ''Burenwurst'' (a coarse beef and pork sausage, generally boiled), ''Käsekrainer'' (spicy pork with small chunks of cheese), and ''Bratwurst'' (a white pork sausage). Most can be ordered "mit Brot" (with bread) or as a "hot dog" (stuffed inside a long roll). Mustard is the traditional condiment and usually offered in two varieties: "süß" (sweet) or "scharf" (spicy).

Kebab and pizza are, increasingly, the snack food most widely available from small stands.

The ''Naschmarkt'' is a permanent market for fruit, vegetables, spices, fish, meat, etc. from around the world. The city centre has many coffee and breakfast stores, such as the ''Julius Meinl am Graben''.

Drink

Vienna, along with Paris, Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw and London is one of the few remaining world capital cities with its own vineyards. The wine is served in small Viennese pubs known as Heuriger, which are especially numerous in the wine growing areas of Döbling (Grinzing, Neustift am Walde, Nußdorf, Salmannsdorf, Sievering), Floridsdorf (Stammersdorf, Strebersdorf), Liesing (Mauer) and Favoriten (Oberlaa). The wine is often drunk as a Spritzer ("G'spritzter") with sparkling water. The Grüner Veltliner, a dry white wine, is the most widely cultivated wine in Austria.

Beer is next in importance to wine. Vienna has a single large brewery, Ottakringer, and more than ten microbreweries. A "Beisl" is a typical small Austrian pub, of which Vienna has many.

Viennese cafés

Viennese cafés have an extremely long and distinguished history that dates back centuries, and the caffeine addictions of some famous historical patrons of the oldest are something of a local legend. Traditionally, the coffee comes with a glass of water. Viennese cafés claim to have invented the process of filtering coffee from booty captured after the second Turkish siege in 1683. Viennese cafés claim that when the invading Turks left Vienna, they abandoned hundreds of sacks of coffee beans. The Emperor gave Franz George Kolschitzky (Polish – Franciszek Jerzy Kulczycki) some of this coffee as a reward for providing information that allowed the Austrians to defeat the Turks. Kolschitzky then opened Vienna's first coffee shop. Julius Meinl set up a modern roasting plant in the same premises where the coffee sacks were found, in 1891.

Tourist attractions

Major tourist attractions include the imperial palaces of the Hofburg and Schönbrunn (also home to the world's oldest zoo, Tiergarten Schönbrunn) and the Riesenrad in the Prater. Cultural highlights include the Burgtheater, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Lipizzaner horses at the spanische Hofreitschule and the Vienna Boys' Choir, as well as excursions to Vienna's Heurigen district Döbling.

There are also more than 100 art museums, which together attract over eight million visitors per year. The most popular ones are Albertina, Belvedere, Leopold Museum in the Museumsquartier, KunstHausWien, BA-CA Kunstforum, the twin ''Kunsthistorisches Museum'' and ''Naturhistorisches Museum'', and the Technisches Museum Wien, each of which receives over a quarter of a million visitors per year.

There are many popular sites associated with composers who lived in Vienna including Beethoven's various residences and grave at Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) which is the largest cemetery in Vienna and the burial site of many famous people. Mozart has a memorial grave at the Habsburg gardens and at St. Marx cemetery (where his grave was lost). Vienna's many churches also draw large crowds, the most famous of which are St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Deutschordenskirche, the Jesuitenkirche, the Karlskirche, the Peterskirche, Maria am Gestade, the Minoritenkirche, the Ruprechtskirche, the Schottenkirche and the Votivkirche.

Modern attractions include the Hundertwasserhaus, the United Nations headquarters and the view from the Donauturm.

International organizations in Vienna

Vienna is the seat of a number of United Nations offices and various international institutions and companies, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Currently Vienna is the world's 4th "UN city" (after New York, Geneva and The Hague). Additionally, Vienna is the seat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law's secretariat (UNCITRAL). In conjunction, the University of Vienna annually hosts the prestigious Willem C. Vis Moot, an international commercial arbitration competition for students of law from around the world.

Various special diplomatic meetings have been held in Vienna in the latter half of the 20th century, resulting in various documents bearing the name Vienna Convention or Vienna Document. Among the more important documents negotiated in Vienna are the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, as well as the 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).

Charitable organizations in Vienna

Alongside the international and intergovernmental organisations, there are dozens of charitable organisations based in Vienna; these organisations provide relief goods and assistance to tens of thousands of disadvantaged children and needy people in developing countries.

One such organisation is the network of SOS Children's Villages, founded by Hermann Gmeiner in 1949. Today, SOS Children's Villages are active in 132 countries and territories worldwide. Others include HASCO and the Childrens Bridge of Hope.

Another extremely popular, international event is The Life Ball in aid of AIDS. Guests such as Bill Clinton and Whoopi Goldberg were recent attendants at this now annual gala.

Transportation

Vienna has an extensive transportation network. Public transport is provided by buses, trams and 5 underground metro lines (U-Bahn). Trains are operated by the ÖBB. Vienna has multiple road connections including motorways.

Vienna is served by Vienna International Airport, located southeast of the city centre next to the town of Schwechat.

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Vienna is twinned with the following cities:

* Belgrade in Serbia

* Bratislava in Slovakia

* Brno in Czech Republic

* Budapest in Hungary

* Istanbul in Turkey ''(since 2007)''

* Kiev in Ukraine

* Ljubljana in Slovenia

Moscow in Russia

* Tabriz in Iran ''(since 2009)''

* Tel Aviv in Israel

* Tunis in Tunisia

* Warsaw in Poland ''(since 2001)''

* Zagreb in Croatia ''(since 1994)''

Other forms of cooperation and city friendship similar to the twin city programmes:

	* Niš in Serbia

In addition, individual Viennese districts are twinned with Japanese cities/districts:

	* Alsergrund with Takarazuka, Hyōgo	with Setagaya, Tokyo>Setagaya, Tokyo. ''(since 1985)''	Donaustadt with Arakawa, Tokyo>Arakawa, Tokyo. ''(since 1996)''	Floridsdorf with Katsushika, Tokyo>Katsushika, Tokyo. ''(since 1987)''		Hernals with Fuchū, Tokyo>Fuchu, Tokyo. ''(since 1992)''	* Hietzing with Habikino, Osaka	with Taitō, Tokyo>Taito, Tokyo. ''(since 1989)''	* Meidling with Gifu, Gifu

Further, the Viennese district [[Leopoldstadt and the New York City borough Brooklyn entered into a partnership in 2007.

See also

Donauinsel

Donauinselfest

History of Vienna

List of Freemen of Vienna

List of mayors of Vienna

List of Viennese

Vienna (Billy Joel song)

Vienna (Ultravox song)

Vienna Circle

Vienna International Airport

Viennese German

Vienna Biennale

Soviet war memorial (Vienna)

References

Material translated from :de:Wien on ''The German language Wikipedia''

Notes

External links

Official websites

Wien.gv.at – Official site of the municipality, with interactive map.

Wien.info – Official site of the tourism board: events, sightseeing, cultural information, etc.

List of Embassies in Vienna

Pictures and videos of Vienna

surfvienna.net – Virtual Tour of Old Vienna and more

Photos of Vienna at night (very-bored.com)

Photos of Vienna (zoomvienna.com)

PhotoGlobe Vienna – a collection of georeferenced photos of Vienna

Vienna. Pleasure and Melancholy A collection of photos of Vienna (willypuchner.com)

Panoramic pictures of Vienna (wienkultur.info)

360° virtual tour of Vienna, Austria (VRVienna.com)

Vienna Christmas market "Wiener Christkindlmarkt" (butkaj.com)

Photos of Vienna Sightseeings (butkaj.com)

History of Vienna

Hundreds of articles on historical buildings of Vienna: Churches, Palaces, Art, Culture and History of Vienna

Jews in Vienna (from Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971).

German flaktowers in Vienna

History of the Coat of Arms of Vienna and all (former) districts and municipalities

Further information on Vienna

Vienna Information Sorted by categories. Choose from 5 Languages

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Coordinates	29°25′″N98°30′″N
name	Paja JovanovićПаја Јовановић
birth date	June 16, 1859
birth place	Vršac, Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar, Austrian Empire
death date	November 30, 1957
death place	Vienna, Austria
nationality	Serbian
field	Painting
training	Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
movement	Realism
works	''Čas Mačevanja (Fencing)'' (1884)''Velike seobe Srba (Serbian Migrations)'' (1896)''Krunisanje cara Dušana (Crowning of Stefan Dušan)'' (1900)
influenced by	Pavel ĐurkovićChristian Griepenkerl
website	www.pajajovanovic.rs }}

Pavle "Paja" Jovanović (; ; June 16, 1859 – November 30, 1957) was the most prominent Serbian Realist painter alongside Uroš Predić. He is considered one of Serbia's greatest academic painters. His most famous and recognizable paintings include ''Serbian Migrations'', ''Crowning of Stefan Dušan'', ''Takovo Uprising'', ''Cockfighting'', ''Decorating of the Bride'', and ''Fencing''. He also painted many famous portraits. His works can be found in many European museums across the continent.

Biography

Paja Jovanović was born in Vršac, Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar, Austrian Empire (today Vojvodina province, Serbia), into the family of a photographer Stevan Jovanović and Ernestina, née Deot. He spent his childhood and early youth in this town, where he had the opportunity to see the iconostasis of Pavel Đurković and Arsa Teodorović in the town churches. He received his first lectures and knowledge from his teacher of painting, Vodecki. His father took him to Vienna in 1875 when he was 15, where he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in 1877 in the class of the professor Christian Griepenkerl. He finished the Academy of Fine Arts in 1880, attending several important courses taught by Leopold Carl Müller, known as an “orientalist”. In the following period, having noticed greater interest of Europe for the Balkans, he painted mostly scenes from the life of the Albanians, Montenegrins, Herzegovinians, which brought him great reputation. Encouraged to visit the Balkan region during his hiatus, he studied the customs and folklore of the people, and in 1882 he was awarded the prize of the Academy and was given the czar scholarship for the composition ''The Wounded Montenegrin''.

The public and many art critics directed their attention to the young painter, and in 1883 he signed a contract with the London gallery simply named “French”. He continued his travelling through Caucasus, Morocco, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Italy, and Spain. A great number of sketches, notes, and studies, along with the collected objects from the life of the common people, will find their place in his famous genre-compositions, such as: ''Fencing'', ''Decorating of the Bride'', and ''Cockfighting.'' Some of Jovanović's most remarkable praises were gathered at two of his greatest exhibitions: Millennium exhibition in Budapest in 1896, where he prepared ''Migration of Serbs'' for entry, but ''Triptych'' was sent instead, and the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, for which he had painted a great historical composition ''The Proclamation of Dušan's Law''.

As early as in 1893 he was proclaimed for the member of the Serbian Royal Academy. He was given the task to make the monumental, historical compositions. After 1905 he devoted himself exclusively to painting the portraits in the style of academic realism for the rich clientele, and he became very famous thanks to them. Some of the most famous include ''Portrait of the Painter Simington'', ''Portrait of Mihajlo Pupin'', ''Portrait of the Artist's Wife Muni'', ''Portrait of the Sculptor Đoka Jovanović'', and others. He painted the portraits of his longtime model and wife, Muni with special care.

He made the iconostasis in the ''Dolovo'' and ''Saborna'' churches in Novi Sad, which was painted without commission. He spent most of his time in his atelier in Vienna where he settled, and occasionally travelled to Belgrade. In 1940 he was given the title of the honorary citizen of Vršac, and in 1949 he was given the Order ''zasluga za narod'' (Merit for People) of the first category. He lived quietly and lonely, after his wife's early death, in Vienna until his own death in 1957. According to his will, the urn with his ashes was to be moved to Belgrade and where “The Legacy of Paja Jovanović” was opened in 1970, as well in Vršac. Later, in the building of the Old Pharmacy on the Stairs, in 1977 the permanent commemorative exhibition of Paja Jovanović was opened. The works of Paja Jovanović have been kept in the Town Museum of Vršac, along with the exceptionally famous Vršac Triptych. Most of his works and personal belongings can be found in the Town Museum of Belgrade.

Partial list of works (in Serbian)

# RANjENI CRNOGORAC (1882.) ulje na platnu, 186×114 cm (u Galeriji Matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # MAČEVANjE (oko 1884.) ulje na platnu, 60,5×40,5 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # MAČEVANjE (oko 1883.) skica, olovka na hartiji, 90,5 x 59 -{cm}- (u Muzeju grada Beograda) # U ZASEDI (1884 - 1886.) ulje na platnu, 27,5×38 cm (u Galeriji Matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # ARBANAS (1884 - 1886.) ulje na dasci, 18×24,3 cm (u Galeriji Matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # ARNAUT S ČIBUKOM (1884 - 1886.) ulje na dasci, 36,5×43,5 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # IZDAJICA (1886.) ulje na platnu, 148×100 cm (u Narodnom muzjeu u Beogradu # KIĆENjE NEVESTE (1886.) ulje na platnu, 135×96,5 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # BORBA PETLOVA (1920 - 1926.) ulje na platnu, 95×63 cm, (u Galeriji Matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # UMIR KRIVI (1889.) ulje na platnu, 137×95 cm (u Galeriji matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # FUROR TEUTONIKUS(1889.) heliogravura, 81,7 h 62 -{cm}- (u Muzeju grada Beograda) # SEOBA SRBA 1896.) ulje na platnu, 190×126 cm (u [Narodnom muzeju u Pančevu ) # SEOBA SRBA i SEOBA SRBA I(1908; oko 1895.) heliogravura; skica, olovka na hartiji, 94,8 h 62,3 -{cm}-; 119 h 84 -{cm}- (u Muzeju grada Beograda) # TAKOVSKI USTANAK (1898.) ulje na platnu, 190×125,5 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # MANASTIR SOPOĆANI (oko 1898.) ulje na platnu, 71,2×51,8 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # PROGLAŠENjE DUŠANOVOG ZAKONIKA (oko 1900.) ulje na platnu 126×190 cm (u Muzeju grada Beograda) # KRUNISANjE CARA DUŠANA (posle 1900.) ulje na platnu, 238×157 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # STEFAN DEČANSKI (oko 1900.) ulje na platnu, 20×41 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # RADE NEIMAR PRODAJE MODEL MANASTIRA MANASIJE (oko 1905.) ulje na platnu, 53,3×36,5 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # KRALj MILUTIN (1906-1912.) ulje na platnu, 131,5×201 cm (u Sabornoj crkvi u Sremskim Karlovcima) # ARHIEPISKOP DANILO (1906-1912.) ulje na platnu, 121×200 cm (u Sabornoj crkvi u Sremskim Karlovcima) # RASPEĆE (1919.) ulje na platnu, 174×275 cm (u Galeriji Matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # PORTRET SLIKARA SIMINGTONA (oko 1895.) ulje na platnu, 76,5×99 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # PORTRET VAJARA ĐOKE JOVANOVIĆA (1906-1908.) ulje na dasci, 19,6×25 cm (u Galeriji Matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # PORTRET MIHAILA PUPINA (1903.) ulje na platnu, 96×114 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # PORTRET GOSPOĐICE PUPUN (1903.) ulje na platnu, 80,5×103 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # ŽENA U RUŽIČASTOJ HALjINI (1904.) ulje na platnu, 62,3×117 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # PORTRET DR ŠENKA (1906.) ulje na platnu, 55×73 cm (u Galeriji Matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # PORTRET GOSPOĐE HADSON (1910.) ulje na platnu, 89×150 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # IGRAČICA BERGEL (oko 1913.) ulje na platnu, 92,5×126,5 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # GEDEON DUNĐERSKI (1916.) ulje na platnu, 115×221 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # SOFIJA DUNĐERSKI (1916.) ulje na platnu, 115×210,5 cm (u Galeriji Matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # TEODORA DUNĐERSKI (1916-1920.) ulje na platnu, 170×144 cm (u Galeriji Matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # PORTRET KRUNE BOGDANOVIĆ (1919.) ulje na platnu, 115×210 cm (u privatnoj kolekciji Milana St. Markovića) # PORTRET NIKOLE PAŠIĆA (1922-1926.) ulje na platnu, 60,4×73 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # PORTRET SUPRUGE MUNI (1925.) ulje na platnu, 73×99 cm (u Galeriji Matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # AKT NA CRVENOM OGRTAČU(1918-1920.) ulje na platnu, 115 h 211 -{cm}- (u Muzeju grada Beograda) # AUTOPORTRET (posle 1930.) ulje na platnu, 29×46 cm (u Galeriji Matice srpske u Novom Sadu) # MARŠAL TITO (1947.) ulje na platnu, 100×150,5 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # MARŠAL TITO((1952.) skica, olovka na hartiji, 30,5 h 24 -{cm}- (u Muzeju grada Beograda) # VILINSKA ZEMLjA - PARSIFALOV SAN(1906.) litografija i heliografija (u Muzeju grada Beograda) # MILOŠ, MARKO I VILA (oko 1906.) ulje na platnu, 33,5×53 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # DIJANA (1906-1908.) ulje na platnu, 77×68 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # KUPAČICA (1906-1908.) ulje na platnu, 40,5×50,5 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # CVEĆE (1942.) ulje na dasci, 30×40,2 cm (u Narodnom muzeju u Beogradu) # CVEĆE (oko 1950.) ulje na dasci, 30,5×40,5 cm (u Muzeju grada Beograda) # PORTRET KRALjICE MARIJE KARAĐORĐEVIĆ(1925-1930.) ulje na platnu, 210×102 cm (u Muzeju grada Beograda) # PORTRET MILUTINA MILANKOVIĆA :sr:Слика:MilutinMilankovic.PNG (1943.) ulje na platnu # PORTRET MILUTINA MILANKOVIĆA(1945.) olovka, papir, kalk-skica, 29,8 h 36,7 cm (u Muzeju grada Beograda)

Gallery

External links

Memorial Museum

In Remembrance of Paja Jovanovic

Further reading

''A Survey of Serbian art'' by Ljubica D Popovich

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