German Tyrol

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Provinz Deutschtirol
Province of German Tyrol
German Austria
1918–1919
CapitalInnsbruck
Area 
• 1910
20,039 km2 (7,737 sq mi)
Population 
• 1910
555,000
History 
• Established
12 November 1918
10 September 1919
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Austria-Hungary
First Austrian Republic
Kingdom of Italy
Today part ofAustria
Italy

German Tyrol (

Welschtirol
).

History

German Austria
1918 with German Tyrol in gray

German Tyrol was historically an integral part of the

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

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.

See also