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75th Anniversary of Burgenland
This year, Austria's most easterly province celebrates 75 years of affiliation with Austria as an independent province. Indeed, this is not the only superlative in its history, for it is also the youngest of Austria's nine provinces. Until the end of World War I, the region of present-day Burgenland belonged to the Hungarian part of the Habsburg Monarchy and formed the western parts of the three Hungarian administrative districts of Wieselburg, Ödenburg, and Eisenburg. The name Burgenland emerged when these district names were discontinued. After the peace treaty of Saint Germain en Laye was signed on September 10, 1919, Hungary ceded Burgenland to Austria, indeed only after Austria obliged itself to hold a public vote in the city of Ödenburg which was foreseen to be the provincial capital. Sixty-five percent of Ödenburgers voted to remain with Hungary. The new provincial capital was firmly established in Eisenstadt only in the mid 1920s. In the post-war era, Burgenland struggled in particular with its position on the outer edge of western European development. Yet political transformation in the east in 1989 and above all Austria's entry into the European Union on January 1, 1995 brought about economic reform.
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