From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque
seat of the Hapsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and
expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western
capital of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, but the
twentieth century saw it degraded to a 'hydrocephalus' cut off from
its former economic hinterland. After the inglorious Nazi
interlude, Vienna began the long climb back to the prosperous and
cultivated city of 1.7 million inhabitants that it is today.
Subjected to constant infusions of new, Vienna has both assimilated
and resisted cultural influences from outside, creating its own sui
generis culture.
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