Gwamnatin tarayya kuma a lokaci guda Jamhuriyar Majalisa ita ce sunan hukuma na Jamhuriyar Ostiryia. Na farko da aka ambace shi daga shekarar 996 AD Austria yana tsakiyar Turai. Tarihin ƙasar yana da nasaba sosai da Jamus Jihar tarayya na Bavaria - kawai a 1156, jamhuriyar ta zama mai zaman kanta. A wani lokaci a cikin ƙasar an haɗa ta Czech Jamhuriyar Republican, Croatia da Hungary, kuma yana da wuyar samun dangantaka daTurkiya, Faransa kuma ba shakkaJamus. Babban birnin kasar birnin Vienna ne. Bayan ƙarshen yakin duniya na biyu Austria Jamus an raba shi zuwa yankunan 4.