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HISTORY Austria was greatly affected by the Protestant reformation, to the point where a majority of the population was eventually Protestant . Due to the prominent position of the Habsburg s in the Counter-Reformation , however, Protestantism was all but wiped out and Catholicism once more restored to the dominant religion. The significant Jewish population (around 200,000 in 1938) in the country, mainly residing in Vienna , was reduced to a mere couple of thousand by the mass emigration in 1938 (more than 2/3 of the Jewish population emigrated from 1938 until 1941) and the following Holocaust during the Nazi regime in Austria. Immigration in more recent years, primarily from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia , has led to an increase in the number of Muslims and Serbian Orthodox Christians.1 SEE ALSO
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