See also:

• BOTZEN, or BOZEN (Ital. Bolzano)

BOTZEN, or BOZEN (Ital. See also:

• BOLZANO, BERNHARD (1781-1848)

Bolzano)  , a See also:

• TOWN

town in the See also:

• AUSTRIAN

Austrian See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• TIROL (or TYROL 1)

Tirol, situated at the confluence of the Talfer with the Eisak, and a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short way above the junction of the latter with the See also:

• ADIGE (Ger. Etsch, anc. Athesis)

Adige or Etsch . It is built at a height of 869 ft., and is a station on the See also:

• BRENNER

Brenner railway, being 58 m . S. of that pass and 35 M . N. of See also:

• TRENT
• TRENT (Lat. Tridentum; Ital. Trento; Ger. relent)
• TRENT, COUNCIL OF

Trent . In 1900 it had a See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of 13,632, Romanist and mainly See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German-speaking, though the See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element is said to be increasing . See also:

• BOTZEN, or BOZEN (Ital. Bolzano)

Botzen is a See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic town amid Italian surroundings . It is well built, and boasts of a See also:

• FINE

fine old See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, opposite which a statue was erected in 1889 to the memory of the famous Minnesinger, See also:

• WALTHER, BERNHARD (1430-15o4)

Walther von der Vogelweide, who, according to some accounts, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born (c . 1170) at a See also:

• FARM

farm above Waidbruck, to the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of Botzen . Botzen is the busiest commercial town in the German-speaking portion of Tirol, being admirably situated at the junction of the Brenner route from See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy with that from See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland down the Upper Adige valley or the Vintschgau . Hence the transit See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade has always been very considerable (it has four large fairs annually), while the See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine is mentioned as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as the 7th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Lately its prosperity has been increased by the rise into favour as a See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter resort of the See also:

• VILLAGE

village of Gries, on the other See also:

• BANK

bank of the Talfer, and now practically a suburb of Botzen . The pons Drusi (probably over the Adige, just below Botzen) is mentioned in the 4th century by the Peutinger Table .

In the 7th to 8th centuries Botzen was held by a See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty of Bavarian See also:

• COUNTS

counts . But in 1027, with the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the See also:

• DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of Trent, it was given by the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• CONRAD (d. 955)
• CONRAD, JOSEPH (1856– )
• CONRAD, or KONRAD (M. H. Ger. Kuonrdl, i.e. " keen in counsel," Lat. Conradus, It. Corrado, cf. the A.S. Ccenred)

Conrad II. to the See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of Trent . From 1028 onwards it was ruled by local counts, the vassals of the bishops, but after Tirol See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell into the hands of the Habsburgers (1363) their See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew at the expense of that of the bishops . In 1381 See also:

• LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

Leopold granted to the citizens the See also:

• PRIVILEGE

privilege of having a town See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council, while in 1462 the bishops resigned all rights of See also:

• JURISDICTION
• JURISDICTION, CRIMINAL LAW, DIVORCE

jurisdiction over the town to the Habsburgers, so that its later See also:

• HISTORY

history is merged in that of Tirol . (W . A . B .