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: 1 752 845 (2015 est). Area: 1075 sq km (415 sq miles)
German name: Wien. Latin name: Vindobona
Vienna in American English
(viˈɛnə)
capital of Austria, on the Danube: pop. 1,516,000: Ger. name Wien: site (1814-15) of a conference (Congress of Vienna) of the major European powers at the end of the Napoleonic wars, to restore monarchies and readjust territories throughout Europe
a small sausage like a short, slim frankfurter , used esp. as an hors d'oeuvre
Vienna Secession
the a Viennese movement of the late 19th and early 20th cent . in the arts and architecture , that rejected prevailing academic styles in favor of these of art nouveau
Congress of Vienna
the European conference held at Vienna from 1814–15 to settle the territorial problems left by the Napoleonic Wars
the Vienna Union
an international conference of socialists who came together in Vienna in 1921 in an attempt to reconstruct a united International by offering an alternative to the right-wing remnant of the Second International and to the Comintern : merged into the Labour and Socialist International in 1923