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See also:TIROL (or TYROL 1) , the most southerly See also:province of the See also:Austrian See also:Empire . It makes a See also:great See also:bend southwards towards See also:Italy, by which it is bounded on the S.E., S. and S.W., while on the W. it adjoins See also:part of See also:present See also:Switzerland (till 1652 the See also:Lower See also:Engadine was Tirolese, and not Swiss) and also the Austrian province of Voralberg; to the N. it See also:borders on See also:Bavaria and to the E. the province of Upper See also:Austria . It is traversed from See also:west to See also:east by the See also:main See also:chain of the See also:Alps, which rises in various See also:snow-covered summits, the more important being the See also:Ortler (12,802 ft., the loftiest See also:peak in See also:Tirol and in the Eastern Alps generally), the Wildspitze (12,382 ft., Oetzthal See also:group), the Zuckerhiitl (11,520 ft., Stubai group), the Hochfeiler (11,559 ft., Zillerthal group), the See also:Gross Venediger (12,008 ft.) and the Gross Glockner (12,461 ft., both in the Tauern range), while more to the See also:south are the See also:Dolomites, which culminate in the Marmolata (10,972 ft.) . It is divided into two very distinct portions by the See also:Brenner Pass (4495 ft.), connecting the Stubai and the Zillerthal See also:groups; over this pass a splendid railway was built in 1864–1867 from See also:Innsbruck to See also:Verona, while the See also:highway over the pass has from the earliest times been of immense importance from every point of view . The Brenner, too, being on the main See also:watershed of the Alps, separates the two main See also:river systems of which Tirol is composed . To the See also:north this province comprises the See also:middle portion of the See also:Inn Valley, with its tributaries, as well as the upper portion of the See also:Lech valley, all flowing towards the See also:Danube and so to the See also:Black See also:Sea, while south of the pass is the great upper valley of the See also:Adige or Etsch, with many tributaries, as well as (since 1500) a portion of the upper See also:Drave valley, which physically belongs to See also:Carinthia—all these (See also:save the Drave) flow to the Adriatic Sea . The See also:area of Tirol is 10,204 sq. m . In 1900 its See also:population was 852,712 (all but wholly Romanist), of whom more than See also:half were See also:German-speaking, and many in the south See also:Italian-speaking, while in certain See also:side valleys of the Adige See also:system the See also:quaint old Ladin See also:dialect, still surviving also in the Swiss Engadine, is the prevailing See also:tongue; in. the See also:southern half of the region there are a few German-speaking among the Italian-speaking folk . The See also:capital is Innsbruck, while other important towns are See also:Trent, See also:Botzen and See also:Rovereto . The present very irregular shape of the See also:district is due to See also:historical causes . The See also:original Tirol consisted of part of the middle Inn valley and of the uppermost portion (the Vintschgau) of the Adige valley . In 1500, by See also:inheritance from the See also:counts of See also:Gorz, the Pusterthal and upper Drave valley (east) were added; in 1505 the lower portion of the Zillerthal; with the Inn 1 To speak, as is commonly done, of " the Tirol " is as absurd as speaking of " the See also:England." As regards the See also:English spelling of the name adopted throughout the Ency .
Brit., it should, however, be stated that the writer of this See also:article regards " Tyrol " as more correct.—(ED.)
valley from its entrance to Kufstein, and the Kitzbti.See also:hel region (north-east) were all won from Bavaria; in 1517 Rovereto and several other places on the present south-eastern frontier were acquired from See also:Venice; in 18o3 many fiefs in the bishoprics of Trent and See also:Brixen were annexed on the secularization of those two bishoprics; while finally the See also:rest of the Zillerthal, with Windisch Matrei, was obtained in 1816 from the archbishopric of See also:Salzburg
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Besides the great railway See also:line over the Brenner, there are other lines from Botzen past See also:Meran to Mals, from Franzensfeste up the Pusterthal to Lienz in the Drave valley, and from Innsbruck, by a See also:tunnel beneath the Arlberg Pass to the See also:Vorarlberg and the See also:Rhine valley
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The See also:majority of the population is devoted to See also:pastoral, and in some degree to agricultural pursuits, the See also:cattle, as in other Alpine lands, being the mainstay of the peasants
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In summer they are driven up to the See also:mountain pastures (called here Almen, but Alpen in Switzerland), which are, however, less carefully looked after than in Switzerland, partly because in many cases they have been alienated by the neighbouring hamlets to far distant places
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Forestry also employs a certain proportion of the population, but the See also:felling of trees is carried on wastefully, though less so than in former years
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A few minerals are found in the district, but in this See also:department the saltworks of See also:
Ecclesiastically, Tirol is ruled by the See also:archbishop of Salzburg and his two suffragans, the bishops of Trent and of Brixen
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The See also:country is divided into 21 administrative districts (Bezirke), each composed of a number of communes or See also:civil parishes
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Tirol sends 25 representatives to the Austrian See also:parliament at See also:Vienna
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Locally it is ruled by an Imperial See also:governor (the Statthalter) who resides at Innsbruck, where, too, meets annually the local legislature or See also:Diet (the Landtag), composed (according to the constitution of 1861) of 68 members; the archbishop of Salzburg, the bishops of Trent and Brixen, and the See also:rector of the university of Innsbruck sit in See also:person, while the great ecclesiastical corporations send four deputies, the See also:chambers of See also:commerce of Innsbruck, Trent and Rovereto each one, the nobles ten, the towns 13, and the peasants 34
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See also:History.—By far the greater portion of the region later called Tirol was inhabited, when it makes its See also:appearance in history, by the Raetians (perhaps a See also:Celtic See also:race, though some still hold that they were connected with the Etruscans), who were conquered (14 B.c.) by See also:Drusus and Tiberius, and were later organized into the Roman province of See also:Raetia
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In the 5th and following centuries the north portion was Teutonized, first by the See also:Ostrogoths, mainly by the Baiouarii, but the See also:Teutonic Langobardi who pressed up from the south became Romanized them-selves, so that the See also:double See also:character of the inhabitants of the land appears quite See also:early
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In 774 the See also:Carolingians, conquered the Langobardi or See also:Lombards, and in 788 the Baiouarii
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But the officials charged with the See also:rule of these parts gradually became semi-See also:independent, particularly the Bavarian See also:dukes in the region north of Trent
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Some See also:time after the break-up of that duchy in 976, the See also:emperor See also:Conrad II. entrusted all temporal See also:powers in the See also:northern region to the See also:bishop of Brixen, and in the southern portion to the bishop of Trent, detaching these southern districts from Italy (to which they had always belonged, save from 951 to 962, when the See also:
Albert's See also:elder daughter,' See also:Adelaide, married Meinhard, count of Gorz (north of See also:Trieste) ; their elder son Meinhard (d
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1295) took Tirol, and the younger Gorz; but in 1500 the latter's line became See also:extinct, and the elder line inherited its possessions
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See also:Long before that time the See also:senior See also:branch of the elder Iine had ended in See also:Margaret, nicknamed See also:die Maultasche (the See also:Pocket-mouth), who, in 1342, married See also: In 18o5, by the See also:peace of See also:Pressburg, See also:Napoleon forced Austria to See also:hand over Tirol to his ally, Bavaria, which held it till 1814 . On the outbreak cf war (1809) between See also:France and Bavaria, the See also:people See also:rose in revolt . Their See also:leader was Andreas See also:Hofer (b . 1767), a small innkeeper of the Passeyerthal, and under him the peasants repeatedly defeated the Bavarian, French and Saxon troops . Three times (See also:April 13, May 29 and Aug . 13) did they drive the foe out of Innsbruck . On the 15th of See also:August, Hofer, yielding to the popular wish, assumed the See also:government of Tirol . But in See also:October the See also:ill-success of the Austrians against the French elsewhere forced them to conclude the peace of Vienna, by which Tirol was definitely secured to Bavaria . The peasants refused to believe in the See also:bad See also:news, and continued to resist the French, but were at last overpowered by See also:numbers . The French occupied the Passeyerthal on the 23rd of See also:November, and Hofer was obliged to seek shelter in a hut on the mountain pastures . Here he was betrayed by a See also:neighbour to the French (See also:Jan . 27, 181o), who took him See also:captive to See also:Mantua, where, by See also:express See also:order of Napoleon, he was shot (Feb . 20, 181o) for the See also:sole offence of being loyal to his emperor and his native land . His bones now See also:lie in the great church at Innsbruck, side by side with those of his two chief supporters, the Capuchin See also:friar and See also:army See also:chaplain, See also:Joachim Haspinger (d . 1858), and the See also:peasant, See also:Joseph Speckbacher . See in See also:general vol. xiii., Tirol (Vienna, 1893), of the great See also:official See also:work entitled Die oesterreichisch-ungarische lbionarchie in Wort and Bild . The following more See also:special See also:works may be consulted : A . Achleitner and E . Uhl, Tirol and Vorarlberg (See also:Leipzig, 1895) ; J . See also:Alton, Die ladinischen Idiomen in Ladinien, Groden, Fassa, Buchenstein, Ampezzo (Innsbruck, 1879) ; F . Arens, Das tiroler See also:Volk in semen Weisthumern (See also:Gotha, 1904) ; W . A . See also:Baillie-Grohman, Tirol and the Tirolese (See also:London, 1876), Gaddings with a See also:Primitive People (2 vols., London, 1878), See also:Sport in the Alps (London, 1896), and The Land in the Mountains (1907) ; See also:Miss R . H .
See also:Busk, The Valleys of Tirol (London, 1874) ; E
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See also: D . McCrackan, The Tyrol (London, 1905) ; E . Oefele, Geschichte der Grafen von Andechs (Innsbruck, 1877) ; L . Purtscheller and H . See also:Hess, Der Hochtourist in den Ostalpen, 3rd ed., 3 vols . (Leipzig and Vienna, 1903) ; E . See also:Richter Die Erschliessung der Ostalpen (3 vols., See also:Berlin, 1893–1894); A . Schaubach, Deutsche Alpen (2nd ed., 5 vols., See also:Jena, 1865–1871); Chr . Schneller, Landeskunde von Tirol (Innsbruck, 1872) ; F . A . Sinnacher, Beitrage zur Geschichte der bischofl . Kirche Saben and Brixen (really a special territorial history of Tirol) (To vols., Brixen, 1821–1837); J .
Staffler, Tirol and Vorarlberg, (2 vols., Innsbruck, 1839–1846) ; A
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Steinitzer, Geschichtliche and kulturgeschichtliche Wanderungen durch Tirol and Vorarlberg (Innsbruck, 1905); Th
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Vernaleken, Alpensagen (largely Tirolese; Vienna, 1858); Beda See also:Weber, Das Land Tirol (3 vols., Innsbruck, 1837–1838) ; See also: |
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