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South Tyrol (occasionally South Tirol) is the term most commonly used in English for the province, 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 the Habsburgs.
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History of South Tyrol. The former Tyrol today. Tyrol (state) Austria. South Tyrol Italy. Trentino. 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] ).
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The South Tyrolean independence movement ( German: Südtiroler Unabhängigkeitsbewegung, Italian: Movimento d'Indipendenza dell'Alto Adige) is a political movement in the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol that calls for the secession of the region from Italy and its reunification with the State of Tyrol, Austria.
History of Tyrol. Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino Euroregion. The history of Tyrol, a historical region in the middle alpine area of Central Europe, dates back to early human settlements at the end of the last glacier period, around 12,000 BC. Sedentary settlements of farmers and herders can be traced back to 5000 BC.
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; historically the Tyrole; Austrian German: Tirol ⓘ; Italian: Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria.
Almost one third of South Tyroleans live in urban areas—with 107,760 persons inhabiting the predominantly Italian-speaking capital of Bolzano/Bozen (ibid.). According to the linguistic declaration at the last census in 2011, 69.41% are German, 26.06% Italian and 4.53% Ladin [6] speakers (out of 453,272 valid linguistic declarations of ...
The province is the northernmost of Italy, the second largest with an area of 7,400 square kilometres (2,857 sq mi), and has a total population of about 534,000 inhabitants as of 2021. Its capital and largest city is Bolzano.
