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The Tyrolean dialect comes from the Bavarian language. In South Tyrol, the Tyrolean dialect was mixed with a few individual Italian words. Due to the difficult accessibility of the valleys in earlier years, many other valleys developed a slightly differentiated dialect compared to the Tyrolean.
The Tyrolean lands were reunited when the Habsburgs inherited the estates of the extinct Counts of Görz in 1500. In the course of the German mediatization in 1803, the prince-bishoprics of Trent and Brixen were secularized and merged into the County of Tyrol (which in the next year became a constituent land of the Austrian Empire ), but Tyrol ...
Tyrolean may refer to: Anything from Tyrol (state) (Austria), South Tyrol (Italy) or the historical County of Tyrol or region of Tyrol; Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car;
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 ...
View from the Wetterkreuz in St. Jakob over the Defereggen Valley looking toward Austria’s highest mountain, Großglockner Near St. Veit. The Defereggen Valley (German: Defereggental), or simply Defereggen (German pronunciation: [ˈdɛfəʁɛɡn̩] ⓘ), is the middle of the three East Tyrolean high mountain valleys running from east to west.
Austrian men in their Tracht. Tracht (German pronunciation: ⓘ) refers to traditional garments in German-speaking countries and regions. Although the word is most often associated with Bavarian, Austrian, South Tyrolean and Trentino garments, including lederhosen and dirndls, many other German-speaking peoples have them, as did the former Danube Swabian populations of Central Europe.
Lake Achen (German: Achensee) is a lake in Austria, north of Jenbach in Tyrol.Lake Achen is also called "Fjord of the Alps" and "Tyrolean Sea". [1] The largest lake within the federal state, its maximum depth is 133 metres (436 ft).
Ötztal valley in Tirol, Austria, looking south from the town of Oetz. The Ötztal (German: [ˈœt͡sˌtaːl] ⓘ) [1] is an alpine valley located in Tyrol, Austria. [citation needed] The Ötztaler Ache river flows through the valley in a northern direction.