The current Austrian territory has a history of thousands of years in terms of civilization. In prehistoric times the lands of Austria They were populated by various tribes of Celtic origin, first the so-called Illyrians and then Celtic tribes from the north. The Illyrians came from Epirus to the shores of the Baltic Sea, from what is now Switzerland to Poland. Although they walked many places, it was in Upper Austria where they developed the most, between the end of the Bronze Age and the first half of the Iron Age. They were engaged in piracy and were fought and defeated by the Romans.
It was the Romans who claimed the Celtic kingdom of noricum making it a province from 15 BC There is a theory that the Romans Latinized as Noricum an ancient Celtic name, Norig (not as "oriental") and that this is where the current name Austria / Osterreich comes from. When the Roman Empire began to decline, the barbarian tribes, Goths, Huns, Vandals and Lombards began to cross the borders and when it definitively fell the area was filled with Avars, Slavs and Bavarians.
Over the centuries the Bavarians began to go down the Danube and up the Alps and it was in this process that Austria became a German-speaking land. The Carolingians dominated them, forming a duchy of the Holy Roman German Empire and it was in the Middle Ages the Carolingian Empire that occupied the region. First the Babenbergs took power and then the Habsburgor that they stayed with him for long centuries, until the end of the First World War.