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The whole region of Tyrol is located in the Alps. Tyrol is bordered to the north by the state of Bavaria and to the east by the states of Carinthia and Salzburg. West of Tyrol lies the state of Vorarlberg and the canton of Grisons. On the southern side of Tyrol, the land is bordered by the regions of Veneto and Lombardy.
German Tyrol (German: Deutschtirol; Italian: Tirolo tedesco) is a historical region in the Alps now divided between Austria and Italy.It includes largely ethnic German areas of historical County of Tyrol: the Austrian state of Tyrol (consisting of North Tyrol and East Tyrol) and the province of South Tyrol but not the largely Italian-speaking province of Trentino (formerly Welschtirol).
There is a portal at Portal:Tyrol The historical region of Tyrol (de: Tirol ) was divided between Austria and Italy in 1918, which is why the name pertains both to the Austrian state of Tyrol and the Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol .
Plansee. Regions: Außerfern - East Tyrol - North Tyrol - Tyrolean Oberland - Tyrolean Unterland - See also: South Tyrol Mountain ranges: Brandenberg Alps - Carnic Alps - Hohe Tauern - Karwendel - Kitzbühel Alps - Kaisergebirge - Lechtal Alps - Mieming Chain - Nordkette - Ötztal Alps - Samnaun Alps - Silvretta - Stubai Alps - Tannheim Mountains - Verwall Alps - Wetterstein - Zillertal Alps
Castle Tyrol was the seat of the Counts of Tyrol and gave the region its name Margaret, Countess of Tyrol. Over the centuries, the Counts residing in Tirol Castle, near Merano, extended their territory over the region. Later counts would hold much of their territory directly from the Holy Roman Emperor.
The Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino Euroregion (German: Europaregion Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino; Italian: Euregio Tirolo-Alto Adige-Trentino) is a Euroregion formed by three different regional authorities in Austria and Italy: the Austrian state of Tyrol (i.e. North and East Tyrol) and the Italian autonomous provinces of South Tyrol and Trentino.
East Tyrol's present-day situation arose from the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I and its subsequent dissolution. By the 1915 Treaty of London , the Kingdom of Italy , which had joined the victorious Triple Entente , was to obtain the Tyrolean lands south of the Brenner Pass , as claimed by the Italian irredentism movement.
The Tyrolean Unterland should not be confused with the Tyrolean Lower Inn Valley (Tiroler Unterinntal) which is in the same region but only describes the Inn valley, nor with the South Tyrolean Unterland (Südtiroler Unterland). Besides the Unterland there is also the Tyrolean Oberland, which lies west of Innsbruck. Innsbruck itself is usually ...