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See also:TRENT (See also:Lat. Tridentum; Ital. Trento; Ger. relent)
, the See also:capital of the See also:south or See also:Italian-speaking portion of the See also:Austrian See also:province of See also:Tirol
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It stands on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Adige where this See also:river is joined by the Fersina, and is a station on the See also:Brenner railway, 35 M
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S. of See also:Botzen and 56a m
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N. of See also:Verona
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It has a very picturesque See also:appearance, especially when approached from the See also:north, with its embattled walls and towers filling the whole breadth of the valley
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A conspicuous feature in the view is the isolated rocky citadel of Doss Trento (the See also:Roman Verruca), that rises on the right hank of the Adige to a height of 308 ft. above the See also:city and is now very strongly fortified, as are various other positions near See also:Trent giving See also:access to Trent from the See also:east (Val Sugana) or the See also:west (valley of the Sarca)
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With its numerous palaces, substantial houses, broad streets, and spacious squares, Trent presents the aspect of a thoroughly Italian city, and its inhabitants (24,868 in 19oo, including a See also:garrison of over 2000 men) speak Italian only—it is the centre of the region called Italia Irredenla by fervent Italian patriots
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The Duomo or See also:cathedral See also: Ecclesiastically Trent is a See also:suffragan see of the archbishopric of See also:Salzburg . Opposite the railway station a statue of See also:Dante was erected in 1896, for he is believed to have visited this region about 1304 . Trent was originally the capital of the Tridentini, and is mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary as a station on the See also:great road from Verona to Veldidena (See also:Innsbruck) over the Brenner . It was later ruled by the See also:Ostrogoths (5th See also:century) and the See also:Lombards (6th century) after the See also:conquest of whom by the See also:Franks (774) Trent became See also:part of the See also:kingdom of See also:Italy . But in 1027 the See also:emperor See also:Conrad II. bestowed all temporal rights in the region on the bishop (the see See also:dates from the 4th century) and transferred it to See also:Germany, an event which fixed all its later See also:history . The Venetian attacks were finally re-pulsed in 1487, and the bishop retained his temporal See also:powers till 1803 when they passed to See also:Austria, to which (See also:save 1805-1814, when first the Bavarians and then See also:Napoleon held the region) they have ever since belonged, the Trentino being annexed formally to Tirol in 1814 . (W . A . B . |
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