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A map from 1874 showing South Tirol with approximately the borders of today's South and East Tyrol. South Tyrol (occasionally South Tirol) is the term most commonly used in English for the province, [10] and its usage reflects that it was created from a portion of the southern part of the historic County of Tyrol, a former state of the Holy Roman Empire and crown land of the Austrian Empire of ...
Under Austrian rule the territory of today's province of South Tyrol was called südliches Tirol or Deutschsüdtirol, [18] but was occasionally also referred to as Mitteltirol, i.e. Middle Tyrol, due to its geographic position, [19] while Südtirol (Italian: Tirolo meridionale), i.e. South Tyrol, indicated mostly today's province of Trentino. [20]
Trentino-South Tyrol Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: Autonomous ... Italian name Regions Major city Population January 2022 Area (km 2) Population density (km 2) MEPs;
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 .
The newly composed Bozner Bergsteigerlied quickly became one of South Tyrol's unofficial hymns by celebrating an unbroken attachment of the South Tyroleans to their homeland. In the 21st century, just over 100 years after the Italian annexation of the region, [10] 64% of the population of South Tyrol speak German as their first and everyday ...
The museum is located below the Victory Monument and documents the time of the population of Bolzano and South Tyrol during the Italian fascism and after 1943 the German National Socialism. It is the first museum in Italy to work on the fascism under Benito Mussolini.
Linguistically, the population in Austrian Tyrol is German-speaking, while the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of the Trentino is Italian-speaking. In South Tyrol, approximately two-thirds speak German as their mother tongue and one-quarter speak Italian. [1] Overall, 62% of the Euroregion are German speakers and 37% Italian speakers.
Trentino-South Tyrol North-East 542,166 6,206.87 km 2 (2,396.49 sq mi) 87 166 1923 O: ... Italian provinces by population. Italian provinces by population density.