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Historic region in the Alps between Austria and Italy
German Tyrol
(
German
:
Deutschtirol
;
Italian
:
Tirolo tedesco
) is a historical region in the
Alps
now divided between
Austria
and
Italy
. It includes largely
ethnic German
areas of historical
County of Tyrol
: the
Austrian state
of
Tyrol
(consisting of
North Tyrol
and
East Tyrol
) and the province of
South Tyrol
but not the largely
Italian
-speaking province of
Trentino
(formerly
Welschtirol
).
History
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German Tyrol was historically an integral part of the
Habsburg
constituent
Princely County of Tyrol
but, with the imminent collapse of Habsburg
Austria-Hungary
at the end of
World War I
, areas of the empire with an ethnic German majority began to take actions to form a new state.
On 11 November 1918, Emperor
Charles I of Austria
relinquished power and, on 12 November, these ethnic German areas, including the Province of German Tyrol (German:
Provinz Deutschtirol
) were declared the Republic of
German Austria
with the intent of unifying with
Germany
. However,
South Tyrol
had been promised as spoils of war to Italy by the Entente powers in the
Treaty of London
. The remainder of German Tyrol became the
Austrian federal state
of
Tyrol
.
The status of Tyrol was definitively settled by the 1919
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
that established the division of the region that remains to this day
[update]
.
See also
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