South Tirol

A Dictionary of Contemporary World History | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

South Tirol (Alto Adige) An autonomous German-speaking region in northern Italy. Originally part of the Austrian province of Tirol, it was separated from eastern and northern Tirol, which remained Austrian, and acquired by Italy at the Treaty of St Germain in 1919. The Italianization programmes introduced under Mussolini in an attempt to destroy the region's distinctiveness heightened local hostility to the Italian state. After World War II, De Gasperi promised regional autonomy, though the Italian government remained reluctant to fulfil this promise. The problem was not solved until 1992, when all the autonomy measures agreed between Italy and Austria in 1969 were finally realized, whereby the region gained considerable self-government in matters of social security, communications, and finance.

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