Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino Euroregion was founded in 1998. The aim is to strengthen cooperation between the separated countries. [ 11 ] In several areas, such as mobility, agriculture, education and culture will be tried to promote exchange and to raise the awareness of the cultural and historical heritage of the region of Tyrol in the ...
Tyrol (/ t ɪ ˈ r oʊ l, t aɪ ˈ r oʊ l, ˈ t aɪ r oʊ l / tih-ROHL, ty-ROHL, TY-rohl; [3] German: Tirol ⓘ; Italian: Tirolo [tiˈrɔːlo]) is an Austrian federal state.It comprises the Austrian part of the historical Princely County of Tyrol.
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 ...
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.
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 .
North Tyrol, rarely North Tirol (German: Nordtirol), is the main part of the Austrian federal state Tyrol, located in the western part of the country. The other part of the federal state is East Tyrol , which also belongs to Austria, but doesn't share a border with North Tyrol.
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
The whole historic region of Tyrol, comprising the Austrian state of Tyrol and the Italian Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, forms a Euroregion, a region of intensified cross-border cooperation within the EU, called "Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino", and a joint Tyrolean parliament has been established, albeit with limited powers.