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- When Emperor Ferdinand I died in 1564, he bequeathed the rule over Tyrol and Further Austria to his second son Archduke Ferdinand II. Both territories thereafter fell to the younger sons of the Habsburg Emperors: Archduke Matthias in 1608 and Maximilian III in 1612.
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The acquisition of Tyrol was strategically important to the Habsburg dynasty, since it allowed it to connect their Austrian territories with their territorial possessions in the area of today's Switzerland. From that time, Tyrol was ruled by various lines of the Habsburg family, who bore the title Count.
Maximilian received Austria proper, known then as Lower and Upper Austria; Ferdinand received Tyrol and Further Austria, which after his death with no descendants passed to the elder Austrian line; Charles received Inner Austria (the duchies of Styria, Cartinhia and Carniola).
NamePortraitBornReignc. 940 Son of Berthold of Nordgau or ...21 July 976 – 10 July 994c. 965 (?) First son of Leopold I and ...10 July 994 – 23 June 1018c. 985 Third son of Leopold I and ...23 June 1018 – 26 May 10551027 Son of Adalbert I and Frozza ...26 May 1055 – 10 June 1075After World War I, the victors ruled in 1919 that the southern part of the Austrian crown land of Tyrol was to be ceded to the Kingdom of Italy, including the territory of the former Bishopric of Trent, roughly corresponding to the modern-day Trentino, as well as the southern part of the medieval County of Tyrol county, the present-day province ...
- 26,674 km² (10,299 sq mi)
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The History of Tyrol is characterized by a fascinating mix of cultural diversity and historical significance. Tyrol, a region now divided between Austria and Italy, has a past shaped both by its geography and by the diverse peoples and cultures that have come to this region over the centuries.
North and East Tyrol was assigned to the Republic of Austria, which was invaded by the Wehrmacht in 1938. South Tyrol became part of Italy and is still today. In the years following, a large number of Tyrolean citizens lost their lives in battles.
In order to spare his own sons similar ordeals, he willed the division of the Austrian lands into three: Maximilian received Danubian Austria (present-day Lower and Upper Austria) and the kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia; Ferdinand was ruler in Tyrol and the Austrian.
Duke Frederick IV, who ruled over Tyrol and the ancestral territories on the upper Rhine, increasingly found himself facing difficulties. Having come into conflict with the emperor, he was put under imperial ban: he was deprived of his territorial.
