Editing Demographics of Austria (section)

===Traditional ethnic minorities in Austria===
Only three numerically significant traditional minority groups exist – 13,109 [[Carinthian Slovenes]] (according to the 2001 census – unofficial estimates of Slovene organisations put the number at 50,000) in Austrian [[Carinthia (state)|Carinthia]] (south central Austria) and about 25,000 [[Burgenland Croats|Croats]] and 20,000 [[Hungarians]] in [[Burgenland]] (on the Hungarian border). The Slovenes (also called 'Windische') form a closely knit community. Their rights as well as those of the Croats are protected by law and generally respected in practice. The present boundaries of Austria, once the center of the [[Habsburg monarchy]] that constituted the second-largest [[composite monarchy]] in Europe, were established in accordance with the [[Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)|Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye]] in 1919. Some Austrians, particularly near [[Vienna]], still have relatives in countries that made up the Monarchy, namely Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary.