Trentino-South Tyrol

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Trentino-South Tyrol
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General information
Capital Trento
Area 13.619 km²
Population 962.464
Density 70,7 ab./km²

Trentino-ALTO ADIGE is a region of northern Italy. The two main cities are Bolzano/Bozen and Trento. The region (independent since 1948) is now diveded in two provinces: Alto Adige (in the north, with Bolzano/Bozen as capital) and Trento (in the south, with Trento as capital).

South Tyrol wanted more autonomy, because the main German-speaking community of Italy lives there. In the Trento province, the people are and speak Italian. It has 339 official towns. The most important cities are:

  • Bolzano/Bozen
  • Merano
  • Brixen/Bressanone (South Tyrol),
  • Trento and Rovereto (Trentino).

The two main groups are German in ALTO ADIGE(where live also Italian-speaking) and Italian (they live in the Trento province as majority and ALTO ADIGE in the principal cities), but a minority group called the Ladins lives in the Dolomites region: they speak an old Rheto-romanic language. Words and ways of talking in this area are spread in the valleys around the Dolomites mountain group: Gardena, Badia Mareo Valley (ALTO ADIGE)and Fassa Valley (Trentino). Ladin is also spoken in the town of Cortina d'Ampezzo and areas around there. The Ladin language of the Fassa Valley Ladin is more like italian: the Ladins of this valley speak a language with a lot of Italian or Trentino style sentences.

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