Austrianization

the act or process of making Austrian.

Noun

  1. the act or process of making Austrian.
    • 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. - 1995, Richard Ned Lebow, Thomas...
    • 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. - 2001,...
    • (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.) - 2014, Willard Sunderland, The...

Origin

From Austrian + -ization.