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is largely theoretical, as the federal states are granted few legislative powers. Austria's constitution initially granted all legislative powers to the federal states, but many powers have been subsequently taken away, and only a few remain, such as planning and zoning codes, nature protection,
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All other matters, including but not limited to criminal law, civil law, corporate law, most aspects of economic law, defense, most educational matters and academia, telecommunications, and much of the healthcare system are regulated by national law. There is also no
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of the federal states, since Austria's constitution defines the judiciary as an exclusively national matter. This centralisation follows a historic model where central power during the time of the empire was largely concentrated in Vienna.
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is a community defined to be a city by Austrian law, and a town is a community not defined to be a city. Many of Austria's cities have population figures on the order of 10,000 inhabitants; some are even smaller.
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States in which the FPÖ is involved in the state government as a small coalition partner (Dark Blue). States in which the FPÖ is represented in the state parliament as an opposition party (Light Blue)
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have identical memberships, they hold separate meetings, and each body has separate presiding officers. When meeting as a city council, the deputies can only deal with city affairs; when meeting as a
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also functions as a federal state parliament. Under the municipal constitution, however, city and federal state business must be kept separate. Hence, while the city council and the
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valley and thus consists almost completely of accessible and easily arable terrain. Austria's most densely populated federal state is Vienna, the heart of what is Austria's only
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The city-federal state of Vienna was a part of Lower Austria up until 1921. The federal state of Burgenland is made up of the predominantly German-speaking area that the
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saw most of these areas lose their autonomy. Federal state charters were put in place in 1861, although power remained with the central government. Following the
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The majority of the land area in the federal states of Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, and Burgenland is situated in the
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hunting, fishing, farming, youth protection, certain issues of public health and welfare and the right to levy certain taxes.
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The federal states of Upper Austria and Lower Austria are essentially equivalent to what were the two halves of the
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Considered European for cultural, political and historical reasons but is geographically in Western Asia.
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Austrian federal states are formally and practically endowed with a much smaller degree of autonomy than
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in the 14th and 15th centuries, and was a semi-autonomous part of the County of Tyrol from 1861.
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In terms of boundaries, the present-day federal states arose from the
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Spans the conventional boundary between Europe and another continent.
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when Austria emerged in its present form. The federal state of
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Distribution of seats in Austrian federal state parliaments
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after World War I as a result of the Treaties of
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Austria within Nazi Germany
German

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Carinthia
Lower Austria
Upper Austria
Salzburg
Styria
Tyrol
Tyrol
Vorarlberg
Vienna
Federal state
Republic of Austria
Provincial parliament
Districts
statutory cities
Politics of Austria

Law
Constitution
B-VG
Taxation
State Treaty
Human rights
Neutrality
Supreme organs
Executive

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