Austria

Austria, officially the Republic of Austria. Country located in the southern portion of Central Europe. It belongs to the European Union since 1995, politically constituted as a federal parliamentary republic. Its territory, with its capital Vienna, is located in southern Germany and the Czech Republic, western Slovakia and Hungary, northern Slovenia and Italy, and eastern Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Its

Prehistory The earliest evidence of human presence in present-day Austria dates from the Early Paleolithic (about 500,000–300,000 years ago) and has been found in Austria’s more low-lying parts. During various favorable climatic stages, parts of the alpine area were also