Südtirol / Alto Adige / South Tyrol. Where are we?

Südtirol / Alto Adige / South Tyrol

Where are we?

Where are we?

Demographics

  South Tyrol Bozen

Inhabitants 419,000 103,000

German 70% 24%

Italian 26% 75%

Ladin 4% 1%

History Bozen/Bolzano

• 18 BC Pons Drusi (Drusus bridge) near Bauzanum, inhabited by Raetian people

• 679 Bavarians • 1190 market town

between Venice and Augsburg, cultural crosspoint

Dome of Bozen

History South Tyrol I

• Before WWI: Austro-Hungarian empire

• 1919: Annexed by Italy • 20/30ies: Italienization

by Benito Mussolini• 1946 Autonomy of

Trentino – South Tyrol granting rights to the German speaking population

History of South Tyrol II• 1950/60ies terrorist acts of

the liberation movement• 1960 UN no resolution• 1971 International Court of

Justice in The Hague • 1972 new autonomy with

high level of self-government

• 1992 Autonomy agreement between Austria and Italy

• 1996 Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino

Free University Bozen

• German• Italian• English• (Ladin)

Economics and ManagementAgricultural Sciences

Fruit ScienceComputer ScienceDesign and ArtScience and Technology

CasaClima-KlimaHausAgricultural Technology

EducationMultilingual

Communication

The autonomy

• Anchored in the Italian constitution

• Grants equal rights to the German, Italian and Ladin population

• Financial independence from Italy

• Self-government in many areas

Role model for the successful and fair resolution of inter-ethnic conflict to other regions of the world.

e.g. Tibet and China (Dalai Lama)e.g. Kosovo and Albania

Agriculture

Apples

• Movie

Agriculture

Castles and Towns

Mountains and more

Famous PeopleGiorgio Moroder Ötzi- The Iceman Reinhold Messner

Andreas Seppi

Gustav Thöni

Food

Food