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Tirol - South Tirol - Trentino
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| Type | Euroregion | |
| Membership | Tirol, South Tyrol, Trentino | |
| Establishment | 1996 | |
| Area | ||
| - | Total | 26,254 km2 10,137 sq mi |
| Population | ||
| - | 2006 estimate | 1,710,000 |
The Euroregion Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino (German: Europaregion Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino; Italian: Euregio Tirolo-Alto Adige-Trentino) is a Euroregion formed by the Austrian State of Tyrol and the Italian provinces of South Tyrol and Trentino. The boundaries of the association correspond to the former Austrian County of Tyrol, which for centuries shaped life in the Alpine region.[1] Divided after World War I, the region retained much of its cultural integrity by its traditionally strong attachment to the land and a profound desire for self-government on both sides of the border. The long-standing cultural, social and economic ties, as much as the recognition of convergent interests based on its traditional role as transit country and its largely identical environmental conditions in the heart of the Alps, led to the creation of the Euroregion by the three provinces in 1996.
The cross-border cooperation between the three neighbours covers today many fields, including tourism, traffic, infrastructure, social services and environmental issues in the sensitive central Alps area. In 2001, the joint Alpendeklaration (Alpine declaration), a charter for sustainable development, called for a reconciliation of economic pressures with the wish of the local population to preserve its living environment. A common liaison office was set up in Brussels to foster relations with the EU.
Following a historic meeting between the parliaments of North Tyrol and South Tyrol in 1971, the first for fifty-seven years, the joint meetings were extended twenty years later to include the Trentino. In the 1990s the Austrian State of Vorarlberg, which enjoyed close relations with the region in the past, was granted observer status in the Three Provinces' Parliament (Dreier Landtag). Meetings of the assembly were held at various places of historical importance, such as Innsbruck and Meran, the former capital of Tyrol.
Linguistically, the population in Tyrol is German-speaking, while the overwhelming part of the inhabitants of the Trentino is Italian-speaking. In South Tyrol, approximately two-thirds speak German as mother tongue and one-fourth Italian.[2] Overall, 62% of the Euroregion are German speakers and 37% Italian speakers. About 1% of the total population of the Euroregion speak Ladin as mother language, this group being mainly indigenous to South Tyrol, but also to the Trentino.
The Euroregion in numbers as of 31 December 2006:[3]
| Region | Surface in km² | Population | Population density per km² |
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| Tyrol | 12,648 | 700,427 | 55 |
| South Tyrol | 7,400 | 487,673 | 66 |
| Trentino | 6,207 | 507,030 | 81.7 |
| Overall | 26,255 | 1,695,130 | 67.6 |
See also
References
- ^ Excluding Cortina and Livinallongo
- ^ Oscar Benvenuto (ed.): "South Tyrol in Figures 2008", Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol, Bozen/Bolzano 2007, p. 15, Table 9
- ^ Homepage of Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino: facts and numbers
External links
Media related to Tyrol at Wikimedia Commons- Homepage of Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino (English) (German) (Italian)
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