Austria–Poland relations
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Austria–Poland relations are foreign relations between Austria and Poland. The two nations have a very long historical relationship dating back several centuries, which has been complicated throughout most of their history.[1]
At the peak of their power, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Austria's Habsburg monarchy enjoyed a very strong and cordial relationship. Polish hussars under the banner of John III Sobieski helped Austrians to fend off the Turks in the Battle of Vienna, and there were many internal and political exchanges between both states. However, Austria's participation in the Partitions of Poland with Prussia and Russia a century later strained relations. Several Polish uprisings against Austrian rule broke out in the Austrian-occupied part of Poland, the largest of which were the Austro-Polish War of 1809 and the Kraków uprising of 1846. Poles also joined the insurgencies of other nations against Austria, most notably Hungarians and the Italians, during the Revolutions of 1848.
However, of the three partitioning nations, Austria was the most tolerant towards the Poles. In 1867, Poles were given wide autonomy, and Polish culture flourished in the Austrian Partition. In the 20th century, after the collapse of Austria-Hungary, both Austria and Poland re-established relations, only to be interrupted by Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria and then its invasion of Poland that was helped by the Soviet Union.
After World War II, both re-established relations, but the relationship between the Austria and the Polish People's Republic was strained. Poland was a communist satellite of the Soviet Union, and Austria was under the Western Bloc and closely tied to the West and the United States. Their relationship improved in 1989, after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Since then, the relationship between them has undergone significant progress, as Austria supported Poland to join NATO and European Union, which Poland occurred in 1999 and 2004 respectively. Both countries are full members of the OECD, OSCE, European Union, Three Seas Initiative, Council of Europe, United Nations and World Trade Organization. Austria has given full support to Poland's membership of the European Union.