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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] ). It was annexed by Italy following the defeat of the Central Powers in World War I.
The poster is located on the Austrian side of the border, not in South Tyrol. After the end of the Second World War, reform processes tolerated the dual use of names on street signs, while the Italian names remain as the official ones, based on the 1940 law.
- Archie. Apparently derived from an old music hall song called Archibald, Certainly Not! , Archie was a British military slang word for German anti-aircraft fire.
- Basket Case. While it tends to be used in a fairly lighthearted way today (usually describing someone who constantly makes stupid mistakes, or who crumbles under pressure), the original basket case is an unexpectedly gruesome reminder of just how bloody the War became.
- Blighty. Derived from vilayati, an Urdu word meaning "foreign," blighty is an old military nickname for Great Britain. It first emerged among British troops serving in India in the late 19th century, but didn’t really catch on until the First World War; the Oxford English Dictionary records only one use in print prior to 1914.
- Blimp. As a military slang name for an airship, blimp dates back to 1916. No one is quite sure where the word comes from, although one popular theory claims that because blimps were non-rigid airships (i.e., they could be inflated and collapsed, unlike earlier rigid, wooden-framed airships), they would supposedly be listed on military inventories under the heading “Category B: Limp.”
Definitions of the important terms you need to know about in order to understand World War I (1914–1919), including Allied Powers, Austria’s Ultimatum to Serbia, Battle of the Bight, Battle of Coronel, Battle of the Falkland Islands, Battle of Gallipoli, Battle of the Marne, Battle of the Masurian Lakes, Battle of Messines Ridge, Battle of ...
This World War I glossary contains significant words, terms and concepts relating to the 1914-18 conflict, its causes and consequences. Contains words from A to D. It has been written by Alpha History authors.
The South Tyrol Option Agreement (German: Option in Südtirol; Italian: Opzioni in Alto Adige) was an agreement in effect between 1939 and 1943, when the native German and Ladin-speaking people in South Tyrol and several other municipalities of northern Italy, which had belonged to Austria before WWI, were given the option of either emigrating ...
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