(Princely) County of Tyrol | |||||||||||||||
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1140–1919 | |||||||||||||||
![]() Map of the County of Tyrol (1799) | |||||||||||||||
Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806), Crown land of the Habsburg monarchy, of the Austrian Empire (from 1804) and of Cisleithanian Austria-Hungary (from 1867) | ||||||||||||||
Capital | Meran, formally until 1848 Innsbruck, residence from 1420 | ||||||||||||||
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Government | County | ||||||||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||||
• Created County | 1140 | ||||||||||||||
• Bequeathed to House of Habsburg | 1363 | ||||||||||||||
• Joined Austrian Circle | 1512 | ||||||||||||||
1803 | |||||||||||||||
• Restored to Austria | 1814 | ||||||||||||||
• Partitioned by Treaty of St Germain | September 10, 1919 | ||||||||||||||
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The (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 Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary.
Today the territory of the historic crown land is divided between the Italian autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and the Austrian state of Tyrol. The two parts are today associated again in the Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino Euroregion.