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A variant of this Celtic name could be preserved in the Czech, Slovak, Polish and Ukrainian names of the city ( Vídeň, Viedeň, Wiedeń and Відень respectively) and in that of the city's district Wieden.

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The Celtic word vindos may reflect a widespread prehistorical cult of Vindos, a Celtic deity who survives in Irish Mythology as the warrior and seer Fionn mac Cumhaill. Others believe that the name comes from the Roman settlement name of Celtic extraction Vindobona, probably meaning "fair village, white settlement" from Celtic roots, vindo-, meaning "bright" or "fair" – as in the Irish fionn and the Welsh gwyn –, and -bona "village, settlement". Some claim that the name comes from vedunia, meaning "forest stream", which subsequently produced the Old High German uuenia ( wenia in modern writing), the New High German wien and its dialectal variant wean. The etymology of the city's name is still subject to scholarly dispute. The English name Vienna is borrowed from the homonymous Italian name.

18.2 Charitable organizations in Vienna.

18.1 International organizations in Vienna.

2.5 Austrian State Treaty and afterwards.

2.2 Austrian Empire and the early 20th century.

It attracts over 6.8 million tourists a year. Between 20, Vienna was the world's number-one destination for international congresses and conventions. Vienna regularly hosts urban planning conferences and is often used as a case study by urban planners. The city was ranked 1st globally for its culture of innovation in 20, and sixth globally (out of 256 cities) in the 2014 Innovation Cities Index, which analyzed 162 indicators in covering three areas: culture, infrastructure, and markets. The UN-Habitat classified Vienna as the most prosperous city in the world in 2012–2013. Monocle's 2012 "Quality of Life Survey" ranked Vienna fourth on a list of the top 25 cities in the world "to make a base within" (up from sixth in 2011 and eighth in 2010). Monocle's 2015 "Quality of Life Survey" ranked Vienna second on a list of the top 25 cities in the world "to make a base within". Between 20, Vienna was ranked second, behind Melbourne. In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first (in a tie with Vancouver and San Francisco) for the world's most livable cities. Vienna is known for its high quality of life. The historic center of Vienna is rich in architectural ensembles, including Baroque palaces and gardens, and the late-19th-century Ringstraße lined with grand buildings, monuments and parks. It is well known for having played a pivotal role as a leading European music center, from the age of Viennese Classicism through the early part of the 20th century. Vienna's ancestral roots lie in early Celtic and Roman settlements that transformed into a Medieval and Baroque city. Vienna is also said to be the "City of Dreams" because it was home to the world's first psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud. Additionally, Vienna is known as the "City of Music" due to its musical legacy, as many famous classical musicians such as Beethoven and Mozart called Vienna home. In July 2017 it was moved to the list of World Heritage in Danger. In 2001, the city center was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Along with nearby Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants. These regions work together in a European Centrope border region. The city is located in the eastern part of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Vienna is host to many major international organizations, including the United Nations, OPEC and the OSCE. Today, it is the second-largest German-speaking city after Berlin. Until the beginning of the 20th century, Vienna was the largest German-speaking city in the world, and before the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I, the city had two million inhabitants. It is the 6th-largest city proper by population in the European Union and the largest of all cities on Danube river. Vienna is Austria's most populous city and its primate city, with about two million inhabitants (2.9 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of the country's population), and its cultural, economic, and political center. Vienna ( / v i ˈ ɛ n ə/ ( listen) vee- EN-ə German: Wien ( listen) Austro-Bavarian: Wean ) is the capital, largest city, and one of nine states of Austria.