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Austrianization

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English

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Etymology

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From Austrian +‎ -ization.

Noun

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Austrianization (uncountable)

  1. the act or process of making Austrian.
    • 1995, Richard Ned Lebow, Thomas Risse-Kappen, International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 155:
      The acceleration of revolutions across Eastern Europe during the winter of 1989 ushered in Austrianization as a possible mode of transforming the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe.
    • 2001, Modern Austrian Literature, page 19:
      The centralization and Austrianization of Bukovina and other eastern regions imposed changes on all spheres of life, and thereby created pseudo-Viennese models in places such as Bukovina, Galicia, and Slovenia.
    • 2014, Willard Sunderland, The Baron's Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution, Cornell University Press, →ISBN:
      (A telling exception to the general rule was the Austrian half of the Habsburg Empire where, for a variety of reasons, no comparable process of Austrianization ever quite took hold.)