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The history of Tyrol, a historical region in the middle alpine area of Central Europe, dates back to early human settlements at the end of the last glacier period, around 12,000 BC. Sedentary settlements of farmers and herders can be traced back to 5000 BC. Many of the main and side valleys were settled during the early Bronze Age, from 1800 to ...
Tyrol (/ t ɪ ˈ r oʊ l, t aɪ ˈ r oʊ ... in 2023 for the first time. AC Trento has a long history as it was founded in 1921, [40] whereas FC Südtirol was founded ...
Contents. History of South Tyrol. Modern-day South Tyrol, an autonomous Italian province created in 1948, was part of the Austro-Hungarian County of Tyrol until 1918 (then known as Deutschsüdtirol and occasionally Mitteltirol[ 1 ]). It was annexed by Italy following the defeat of the Central Powers in World War I.
Tyrol was a Cisleithanian Kronland (royal territory) of Austria-Hungary from 1867. The County of Tyrol then extended beyond the boundaries of today's federal state, including North Tyrol and East Tyrol; South Tyrol and Trentino (Welschtirol) as well as three municipalities, which today are part of the adjacent province of Belluno.
The (Princely) County of Tyrol was an estate of the Holy Roman Empire established about 1140. After 1253, it was ruled by the House of Gorizia and from 1363 by the House of Habsburg . In 1804, the County of Tyrol, unified with the secularised prince-bishoprics of Trent and Brixen , became a crown land of the Austrian Empire .
The middle part of Tyrol, partitioned in 1919, contained a large German-speaking majority. [1] In 1919, at the time of its annexation, the middle part of the County of Tyrol which is today called South Tyrol (in Italian Alto Adige) was inhabited by almost 90% German speakers. [1] Under the 1939 South Tyrol Option Agreement, Adolf Hitler and ...
Order of battle in the Tyrolean campaign. At the beginning of the War of the Fifth Coalition on 9 April 1809, the armies of the Austrian Empire invaded the Kingdom of Bavaria, an ally of the First French Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy, a French satellite. After Austria's defeat in the War of the Third Coalition the County of Tyrol and the ...
0471. Website. Official website. Bolzano (Italian: [bolˈtsaːno] ⓘ or [bolˈdzaːno]; German: Bozen [ˈboːtsn̩] ⓘ; Ladin: Balsan or Bulsan) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol, in Northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third largest in historical Tyrol.