Vienna

American  

[vee-en-uh] / viˈɛn ə /

noun

1. German Wien. a port in and the capital of Austria, in the NE part, on the Danube.

2. a city in NE Virginia.

3. a town in W West Virginia.

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Vienna British  

/ vɪˈɛnə /

noun

1. Latin name: Vindobona. German name: Wien. the capital and the smallest state of Austria, in the northeast on the River Danube: seat of the Hapsburgs (1278-1918); residence of the Holy Roman Emperor (1558–1806); withstood sieges by Turks in 1529 and 1683; political and cultural centre in the 18th and 19th centuries, having associations with many composers; university (1365). Pop: 1 590 242 (2003 est). Area: 1075 sq km (415 sq miles)

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Vienna Cultural  

1. Capital of Austria and largest city in the country, located in northeastern Austria on the south bank of the Danube River; Austria's leading cultural, economic, and political center.

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It is the home of composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Johann Strauss, the Younger.

During World War II, German troops occupied the city. It was badly damaged by bombing by the Allies, who controlled the city from 1945 to 1955.

Vienna was the capital of the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire under the Hapsburgs, who ruled from 1278 to 1918.

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Capt. Ryan A. Vienna, commander of the Crescenta Valley Station, credited the fire department with extinguishing “a potentially disastrous fire that could have affected all LA County residents.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

Over the next dozen years, audiences flocked to experience the “Ring” in Vienna, Berlin, London and New York, where it arrived at the Metropolitan Opera in 1889.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Aegean Airlines said it "was informed of a bomb threat" concerning two of its flights from Thessaloniki in Greece to Milan, and also from Athens to Vienna.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

"Our results show that eastern and western European populations were not as genetically isolated as previously assumed," says first author Pere Gelabert, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

We had lunch on Howard’s front porch, sitting on the couch eating Vienna sausages and cold pork and beans off of paper plates on our laps.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

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