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5 days ago · The history of Vienna has been long and varied, beginning when the Roman Empire created a military camp in the area now covered by Vienna's city centre. Vienna grew from the Roman settlement known as Vindobona to be an important trading site in the 11th century.
2 days ago · 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, such as Johann Strauss I and II and Kurt Waldheim.
4 days ago · The new permanent exhibition Vienna. My History takes visitors on a journey through the centuries. Over 1,700 objects, from prehistoric to contemporary times, await across three levels and 35,000 square feet. The exhibition focuses on people and their lives, shaped by politics and religion, social structures, and the environment around them.
1 day ago · Johannes Brahms (German: [joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.His music is rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of his Classical (and earlier) forebears, including Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach.
4 days ago · The Congress of Vienna. The Congress of Vienna was an agreement between the powers of Europe to reorganize Europe geographically and politically after the Napoleonic Wars. Completed in 1815, it was the most comprehensive yet seen in Europe. A series of wars beginning in the 1790s had pitted Revolutionary France against a series of other ...
5 days ago · Austria, largely mountainous landlocked country of south-central Europe. Together with Switzerland, it forms what has been characterized as the neutral core of Europe, notwithstanding Austria’s full membership since 1995 in the supranational European Union (EU). A great part of Austria’s prominence can be attributed to its geographic position.
5 days ago · Read on to learn about 10 famous people buried in New York City. 1. Alexander Hamilton & Eliza Schuyler: Trinity Church. Alexander Hamilton’s tombstone in the Trinity Churchyard Cemetery. As one ...
