What is Tyrol (region)?
{{For|other uses|Tyrol}} [[File:Tirol in Austria and Italy.svg|thumb|Location of Tyrol<br/ > (red: Austrian part, green: Italian part)]] [[File:Tirol-Suedtirol-Trentino.png|thumb|Region of Tyrol]] [[File:Language distribution in South Tyrol and Trentino.png|thumb|Languages in [[Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol]]<br/ >(green: German, red: Italian, blue: [[Ladin language|Ladin]])]] [[File:AVE Ostalpen.png|thumb|The [[Eastern Alps]], subdivisions:<br/ >blue: [[Northern Limestone Alps]]<br/ >orange: [[Central Eastern Alps]]<br/ >green: [[Southern Limestone Alps]]]] '''Tyrol''' ([[German language|German]]: ''Tirol'', [[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Tirolo'', [[Ladin language|Ladin]]: ''Tirol'') is a (historical) region in the [[Alps]]. It is the very northern part of [[Italy]] and a western part of [[Austria]]. It borders to the Italian region of [[Lombardy]], the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] canton of [[Graubünden]] and the Austrian state of [[Vorarlberg]] in the west, the [[Germany|German]] state of [[Bavaria]] in the north, the Austrian states of [[Salzburg (state)|Salzburg]] and [[Carinthia (state)|Carinthia]] in the east, and the Italian region of [[Veneto]] in the south. The region of Tyrol is similar to the former [[County of Tyrol]]. This county was part of [[Austria-Hungary]] till [[1919]]. After [[World War I]] it was divided between Austria (North Tyrol) and Italy (South Tyrol). Nowadays these expressions have different meanings (see below). It is split up into: A. [[Tyrol (state)]] (a state of Austria): * [[East Tyrol]] (''Osttirol'') * [[North Tyrol]] (''Nordtirol'') B. [[Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol]] (a region of Italy): * [[Province of Bolzano-Bozen]] (''Provincia autonoma di Bolzano - Alto Adige'' / ''Autonome Provinz Bozen – Südtirol'') or [[South Tyrol]] (''Südtirol / Sudtirolo'') or [[Alto Adige]] * [[Province of Trento]] (''Provincia autonoma di Trento'') or [[Trentino]] Since 1996 the region of Tyrol has been a [[Euroregion]], called [[Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino Euroregion]] (German: ''Europaregio