German Tyrol
Provinz Deutschtirol Province of German Tyrol | |||||||||||
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German Austria | |||||||||||
1918–1919 | |||||||||||
Capital | Innsbruck | ||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||
• 1910 | 20,039 km2 (7,737 sq mi) | ||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||
• 1910 | 555,000 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | 12 November 1918 | ||||||||||
10 September 1919 | |||||||||||
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Today part of | Austria Italy |
German Tyrol (
Welschtirol
).
History
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[update].
See also
- German Austria
- History of Tyrol
- Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino