WebThe (Princely) County of Tyrol was an estate of the Holy Roman Empire established about 1140.After 1253, it was ruled by the House of Gorizia and from 1363 by the House of Habsburg.In 1804, the County of Tyrol, unified with the secularised prince-bishoprics of Trent and Brixen, became a crown land of the Austrian Empire.From 1867, it was a …

WebThe city-county changed its name to Miami-Dade County in 1997. Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee (six communities within Davidson County retain separate governments, although all participate in the metropolitan government in a two-tier system) Petersburg Borough, Alaska (When the borough was created in 2013, the city of Petersburg was ...

WebA non-metropolitan county, or colloquially, shire county, is a county-level entity in England that is not a metropolitan county The term shire county is, however, an unofficial usage. Many of the non-metropolitan counties bear historic names and most, such as Wiltshire and Staffordshire, end in the suffix "-shire".Of the remainder, some counties had …

WebA county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French comté denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count or a viscount. Literal equivalents in other languages, derived from the equivalent of "count", are now seldom used officially, …

WebThe history of Tyrol, a historical region in the middle alpine area of Central Europe, dates back to early human settlements at the end of the last glacier period, around 12,000 BC.Sedentary settlements of farmers and herders can be traced back to 5000 BC. Many of the main and side valleys were settled during the early Bronze Age, from 1800 to 1300 BC.

WebTyrol (/ t ɪ ˈ r oʊ l, t aɪ ˈ r oʊ l, ˈ t aɪ r oʊ l /; German: Tirol (); Italian: Tirolo) is a state (Land) in western Austria.It comprises the Austrian part of the historical Princely County of Tyrol.It is a constituent part of the present-day Euroregion Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino (together with South Tyrol and Trentino in Italy).The capital of Tyrol is Innsbruck.

WebThe region is bordered by East and North Tyrol (Austria) to the north-east and north respectively, by Graubünden (Switzerland) to the north-west, and by the Italian regions of Lombardy to the west and Veneto to the south and south-east. It covers 13,607 km 2 (5,254 sq mi). It is extremely mountainous, covering a large part of the Dolomites and the …

WebBolzano (Italian: [bolˈtsaːno] or [bolˈdzaːno]; Austrian German: Bozen, pronounced [ˈboːt͡sn̩] (formerly Botzen); Bavarian: Bozn; Ladin: Balsan or Bulsan) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third largest in historical Tyrol.

WebThe metropolitan counties are a type of county-level administrative division of England. There are six metropolitan counties, which each cover large urban areas, with populations between 1 and 3 million. They were created in 1974 and are each divided into several metropolitan districts or boroughs.With the abolition of metropolitan county councils in …

WebTyrol Castle, less commonly Tirol Castle (German: Schloss Tirol, Italian: Castel Tirolo) is a castle in the comune (municipality) of Tirol near Merano, in the Burggrafenamt district of South Tyrol, Italy. It was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Tyrol and gave the whole Tyrol region its name. History. The castle hill has been inhabited since ...