tyrol

At present they are in intense negotiations with hydroelectric companies and the state governments of the Tyrol and Salzburg.

As a tyrolean visiting vienna frequently it's always strange to see the grumpy/rude people compared to tyrol.

People still speak German in South Tyrol even though it's part of Italy since 1919.

It _used_ to be part of China over 130 years ago, but it's no more in China today than the Alsace is in Germany or the South Tyrol is in Austria.

BTW, a story from my own backyard: Austria and Italy were in a state of conflict over the question of South Tyrol for decades.

And that small hotel in Tyrol is probably ok, but I had my card cloned within minutes of eating at a restaurant in Toronto.

I'm sure there really are centuries old farmhouses in Tyrol that really work like OP mentioned, but it's not the common way for Europeans to live.

So by the time the silver mentioned in the article was found, Tyrol was firmly in Habsburg hands, and ever since has been part of Austria (particularly, the region with the silver).

I was hoping there'd be things so antiquated you'd have to look it up, eg: stereotypes about people from Dalmatia or Tyrol based on some scandal from 1832.

[2] "The province defying Italy’s birth dearth: Thirty years of child-friendly policies" describes how Bolzano - South Tyrol's child-friendly policies and $ incentives have given it the highest birthrate of all of Italy since the 1990s.

Martin Luther, whose letters had been opened by the Duke of Saxony, raged that "a thief is a thief, whether he is a money thief or a letter thief." Regulations called for postal secrecy in 1532 and 1573 in Austria's Tyrol, in Prussia in 1685, in the oath of succession taken in 1690 by the Holy Roman emperor Joseph I and in his postal regulation of 1698.

Same in Italy for Italian Then there are other, regionally-rocognized language that local governments use alongside the national one (West Frysian in Friesland, German in South Tyrol, etc.), and may even enjoy a majority of speakers within those regions, but they are not "an official language OF" the wider country.

It is no different than Italy desiring Istria or South Tyrol, or Germany wanting Alsace Lorraine.

The land in question was the Southern part of Tyrol, with a predominantly German speaking population.

Tyrol never was German (except when anexed by the Nazis, that is...).