Editing South Tyrol (section)

== Name ==
[[File:(1874) The Valleys of TIROL.jpg|thumb|A map from 1874 showing ''South Tirol'' with approximately the borders of today's South and [[East Tyrol]]]]

''South Tyrol'' (occasionally ''South Tirol'') is the term most commonly used in English for the province,<ref>Cf. for instance Antony E. Alcock, ''The History of the South Tyrol Question'', London: Michael Joseph, 1970; Rolf Steininger, ''South Tyrol: A Minority Conflict of the Twentieth Century'', New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2003.</ref> and its usage reflects that it was created from a portion of the southern part of the historic [[County of Tyrol]], a former state of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] and [[crown land]] of the [[Austrian Empire]] of the [[Habsburg]]s. German and Ladin speakers usually refer to the area as ''Südtirol''; the Italian equivalent ''Sudtirolo'' (sometimes parsed ''Sud Tirolo''<ref>{{Citation
|last=Bondi
|first=Sandro
|author-link=Sandro Bondi
|title=Lettera del ministro per i beni culturali Bondi al presidente del consiglio Durnwalder
|url=http://www.stol.it/content/download/152939/1808238/file/Der%20Bondi-Brief.pdf
|format=Letter
|access-date=4 June 2011
|date=25 January 2011
|publisher=Il Ministro per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
|location=Rome
|language=it
|archive-date=10 June 2011
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610193754/http://www.stol.it/content/download/152939/1808238/file/Der%20Bondi-Brief.pdf
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>) is becoming increasingly common.<ref>{{Citation
| last=Cole
| first=John
| chapter=The Last Become First: The Rise of Ultimogeniture in Contemporary South Tyrol
 | year=2003
 | editor=Grandits, Hannes |editor2=Heady, Patrick
 | title=Distinct Inheritances: Property, Family and Community in a Changing Europe
 | publisher=Lit Verlag
 | place=Münster
 | page=263
 |isbn=3-8258-6961-X
|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pitr21-JrOIC&pg=PA263}}</ref>

''Alto Adige'' (literally translated in English: "Upper Adige"), one of the Italian names for the province, is also used in English.<ref name="Britishcouncil article using 'Alto Adige'">{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishcouncil.org/language-assistants-ela-success-stories-abbey-cameron-alto-adige-italy.pdf|title=Cfr. for instance this article from britishcouncil.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813161158/http://www.britishcouncil.org/language-assistants-ela-success-stories-abbey-cameron-alto-adige-italy.pdf|archive-date=13 August 2011}}</ref> The term had been the name of political subdivisions along the [[Adige|Adige River]] in the time of [[Napoleon Bonaparte]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Raccolta delle leggi, proclami, ordini ed avvisi, Vol 5|year=1798|publisher=Luigi Viladini|location=Milan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1RDgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA184|author=Cisalpine Republic|page=184|language=it}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Napoleon's Italian campaigns 1805–1815|year=2002|publisher=Praeger Publishers|location=Milan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLjJV7AKPkAC&pg=PA99|author=Frederick C. Schneid|page=99|isbn=978-0-275-96875-5}}</ref> who created the [[Department of Alto Adige]], part of the [[Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)|Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy]]. It was reused as the Italian name of the current province after its post-World War I creation, and was a symbol of the subsequent forced [[Italianization]] of South Tyrol.<ref>{{Citation
|last=Steininger
|first=Rolf
|year=2003
|title=South Tyrol: A Minority Conflict of the Twentieth Century
|publisher=Transaction Publishers
|location=New Brunswick, New Jersey
|page=21
|isbn=978-0-7658-0800-4
}}</ref>

The official name of the province today in German is ''Autonome Provinz Bozen&nbsp;— Südtirol''. German speakers usually refer to it not as a ''Provinz'', but as a ''Land'' (like the [[States of Germany|Länder]] of Germany and Austria).<ref>{{Citation
 | last=Heiss
 | first=Hans
 | chapter=Von der Provinz zum Land. Südtirols Zweite Autonomie
 | year=2003
 | editor-last=Solderer
 | editor-first=Gottfried
 | title=Das 20. Jahrhundert in Südtirol. 1980 – 2000
 | volume=V
 | publisher=Raetia
 | place=Bozen/Bolzano
 | page=50
 |isbn=978-88-7283-204-2 }}</ref> Provincial institutions are referred to using the prefix ''Landes-'', such as ''Landesregierung'' (state government) and ''[[Landeshauptmann]]'' (governor).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.provinz.bz.it/land/landesregierung/default.asp|title=Landesregierung &#124; Autonome Provinz Bozen|website=Landesregierung}}</ref>
The official name in Italian is ''Provincia autonoma di Bolzano&nbsp;— Alto Adige'', in Ladin ''Provinzia autonoma Bulsan&nbsp;— Südtirol''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Provincia Autonoma Bolzano - Alto Adige |url=https://home.provincia.bz.it/it/home |publisher=Provincia autonoma di Bolzano |access-date=21 October 2023 |location=Bolzano |language=Italian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Provinzia Autonoma Bulsan - Südtirol |url=https://home.provinzia.bz.it/lld/home |publisher=Provinzia Autonoma de Balsan - Südtirol |access-date=21 October 2023 |location=Bolzano |language=Ladin}}</ref>