German-Austria
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Proper noun
[edit]- (historical) A country created following World War I as the initial rump state for areas with a predominantly German-speaking population within what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- 2009, Bernard Wasserstein, Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time, page 101:
- On 12 November the National Assembly unanimously declared a republic and simultaneously announced that German-Austria was part of Germany.