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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.
Contents. hide. (Top) Prehistory. Antiquity. Middle Ages. Birth of the County of Tyrol. Habsburg rule. Napoleonic Wars. Crownland of Tyrol. World War I. The armistice. After World War I. See also. References. Further reading. External links. History of Tyrol. Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino Euroregion.
The 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.
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; German: Tirol ; Italian: Tirolo) is a state (Land) in western Austria. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical Princely County of Tyrol.
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.
The region of Tyrol is similar to the former County of Tyrol. This county was part of Austria-Hungary till 1919 . After World War I it was divided between Austria (North Tyrol) and Italy (South Tyrol).
