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Migration
Due to industrialization and immigration from other parts of the Empire the population of Vienna increased heavily during its time as capital of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918). However, after World War I many Czechs and Hungarians returned to their ancestral countries, resulting in a decline of the Viennese population. At the peak of the immigration about one third of Vienna′s inhabitants had been of Slavic or Hungarian descent. By 2001 16% of the people living in Vienna had nationalities other than Austrian. In January 2008 of Vienna′s 1.7 million inhabitants about 330.000 had migrational background. Hence the largest ethnicities in Vienna are Turkish or former Yugoslavia.
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