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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. Important rivers in Tyrol are the Adige, Inn and Drau. The region is ...
Innsbruck (German: [ˈɪnsbʁʊk] ⓘ; Austro-Bavarian: Innschbruck [ˈɪnʃprʊk]) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria.On the River Inn, at its junction with the Wipp Valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass 30 km (19 mi) to the south, it had a population of 132,493 in 2018.
Later, South Tyrol was ceded to the Kingdom of Italy, a client state of the First French Empire, by Bavaria in 1810. After Napoleon's defeat, the whole of Tyrol was returned to Austria in 1814. Tyrol was a Cisleithanian Kronland (royal territory) of Austria-Hungary from 1867.
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 ...
Bolzano (Italian: [bolˈtsaːno] ⓘ or [bolˈdzaːno]; German: Bozen [ˈboːtsn̩] ⓘ; Ladin: Balsan or Bulsan) is the capital city of South Tyrol (officially the province of Bolzano), 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.
In 553, southern Tyrol was incorporated into the Lombards' Kingdom of Italy, northern Tyrol came under the influence of the Bavarii, and western Tyrol became part of Alamannia—the three areas meeting at present-day Bolzano. In 774, Charlemagne conquered the Lombards, and as a consequence, Tyrol became an important bridgehead to Italy.
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]
Merano (UK: / m ə ˈ r ɑː n oʊ /, [3] US: / m eɪ ˈ-/; [4] Italian: ⓘ) or Meran (German: ⓘ) is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol, Northern Italy.Generally best known for its spa resorts, it is located within a basin, surrounded by mountains standing up to 3,335 metres (10,942 feet) above sea level, at the entrance to the Passeier Valley and the Vinschgau.