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Albert Anton von Muchar

Albert Anton von Muchar was a historian, born in Lienz, Tyrol, 22 November, around 1781; died in Graz, Styria, 6 June 1849.

Alfons Benedikter

In the 1960s Benedikter repeatedly represented South Tyrol within the UN in New York, when the issue was debated as a major international conflict between Austria and Italy.

Alphons Huber

Alphons Huber (born 14 October 1834, in Fügen, Zillerthal(Tyrol); died 23 November 1898, in Vienna) was a Catholic historian.

Andreas Benedict Feilmoser

He studied at Salzburg from 1789 to 1794, took a two years' course in philosophy at the University of Innsbruck (1794–96), and entered the Benedictine Order at Fiecht, Tyrol, in September, 1796.

Arzl im Pitztal

Arzl im Pitztal is a municipality in the district of Imst in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Citizens' Union for South Tyrol

The Union for South Tyrol was founded on 2 October 1989 by the merger of the nationalist South Tyrolean Homeland Federation of Eva Klotz (2.3% in the 1988 provincial election), the liberal-conservative Freedom Party of South Tyrol led by Gerold Meraner and right-wing splinters from the South Tyrolean People's Party led by Alfons Benedikter.

Critérium du Dauphiné

The cities that have hosted a start or finish most often are: Grenoble (44 times), Avignon (32 times), Saint-Étienne (23 times), Annecy (22 times), Chambéry (21 times), Gap (21 times), Lyon (19 times), Aix-les-Bains (18 times), Valence (16 times), Briançon (15 times) and Vals-les-Bains (15 times).

Dennis Embleton

They journeyed to Paris, Strasbourg, Baden, Switzerland, over the Simplon Pass, Milan, Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Trieste, Vienna, The Tyrol and back to Paris, All the time, in addition to seeing the sights, they visited numerous medical establishments, and at Pisa they petitioned the university, sat the examination for doctorate of medicine, passed and were granted diplomas on 14 September 1836

East Tyrol

While Tyrol was lost to the Austrian House of Habsburg in 1363, the Gorizian counts retained Lienz until the extinction of the line in 1500.

Ehenbichl

Ehenbichl is a municipality in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Elbigenalp

Elbigenalp is a municipality in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen

He was buried outside the Royal Chapel in Königskapelle in Karrösten in North Tyrol.

Galen Tyrol

In the cliffhanger Season 3 finale, "Crossroads, Part II", he, along with Samuel Anders, Saul Tigh, and Tory Foster become aware that they are Cylons, based on hallucinatory music (which turns out to be a cover of "All Along The Watchtower" written by Bob Dylan) that only they can hear, and a "switch" Tyrol believes has gone off within them.

George, Duke of Bavaria

The most southern districts of Bavaria-Landshut Kufstein, Kitzbühel and Rattenberg passed to Emperor Maximilian and were united with Tyrol.

Haiming, Tyrol

Haiming is a municipality in the district of Imst in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Heiterwang

Heiterwang is a municipality in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

History of the violin

In the 19th and 20th centuries numerous violins were produced in France, in Saxony and the Mittenwald in what is now Germany, in the Tyrol, now parts of Austria and Italy, and in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.

Hochvogel

Hinterhornbach is the valley settlement on the southern side (in the Tyrol, Austria).

Ignaz Waibl

In about 1705 he was involved with several others on the refurbishment of the deanery church of Breitenwang in Reutte in the Tyrol.

Jocelyne Villeton

Jocelyne Villeton (born September 17, 1954 in Vals-les-Bains, Ardèche) is a retired long-distance runner from France, who won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy.

John Henry, Margrave of Moravia

Nevertheless Emperor Louis IV in the same year secretly promised the Carinthian duchy including the March of Carniola and large parts of Tyrol to the Austrian dukes Albert II and Otto the Merry from the House of Habsburg.

Thus, after Henry of Gorizia-Tyrol had died in 1335, Emperor Louis IV gave Carinthia and southern Tyrol including the overlordship of Trent and Brixen to the Habsburg dukes, who themselves could refer to their mother Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol, sister of deceased Henry.

Joseph Ohrwalder

Father Joseph Ohrwalder (6 March 1856 Lana/South Tyrol - 8 August 1913 Omdurman/Sudan) was a Roman Catholic priest, who was taken captive by the Mahdists in Sudan while working as a missionary there and escaped ten years later.

Karl Lisch

Karl Lisch (24 July 1907, Kirchbichl – 5 February 1999, Tyrol) was an Austrian ophthalmologist remembered for describing Lisch nodules in 1937.

Kočevski Rog

This area, known in German as Gottschee, was settled in the late 14th century by the Carinthian Counts of Ortenburg initially with colonists from the Ortenburg estates in Carinthia and Tyrol, and by other settlers who came from Austrian and German Dioceses of Salzburg, Brixen and Freising.

Langkampfen

Langkampfen is a municipality in the middle of the Austrian state of Tyrol between Kufstein (8 km southwest below) and Wörgl (8 km north above).

Leisach

Leisach is a municipality in the district of Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Leoganger Ache

The B 164 Hochkönig Road (which comes from Bischofshofen via Dienten and Saalfelden) runs along the Leoganger Valley over the Grießen Pass and via Fieberbrunn to St. Johann in Tirol – it is the only internal Austria link between Tyrol and the east which does not cross a high Alpine pass, but is also linked to Salzburg via the Little German Corner.

Leopold V

Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (1586–1632), Regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria

Lucas Auer

He is the son of Berger's sister Claudia, who runs a transport company in Wörgl in Tyrol – not far from Berger's own family business.

Mariastein

Mariastein, Tyrol, a town in the district of Kufstein in Tyrol, Austria

Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol

According to the Peace of Lieserhofen, concluded on 27 December 1252, he had to give his sons Meinhard IV and Albert to Archbishop Philipp as hostages.

Nadine Beiler

In the summer of 2006 Beiler attended the first round of castings for the Austrian television show Starmania in the casting event in Tyrol.

Nürnberger Handschrift GNM 3227a

After Pol's death in 1532, his library, presumably including this manuscript, passed to Innichen Abbey in South Tyrol.

Obertilliach

Obertilliach is a municipality in the district of Lienz in Tyrol in Austria.

Ortler

The South ridge leads to the Hochjoch (3527 m) on the main ridge of the Ortler Alps that forms the border of the Province of Sondrio and South Tyrol.

Periclase

In addition to its type locality, it is reported from Predazzo, Tyrol, Austria; Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland; Broadford, Skye and the island of Muck, Scotland; León, Spain; the Bellerberg volcano, Eifel district, Germany; Nordmark and Långban, Varmland, Sweden; and Kopeysk, southern Ural Mountains, Russia.

Peter the Lame

After he gave up the throne, together they moved to the city of Bolzano in present day Italy's Tyrol.

Rafael Merry del Val

The del Vals were an Aragonese family originally from Zaragoza, claiming descent from a twelfth-century Breton crusader; the surname Merry came from a line of Irish merchants from County Waterford, Ireland, who settled in the late eighteenth century in Seville, Spain.

Tegernsee Abbey

Settled by monks from St. Gall and dedicated to Saint Quirinus of Rome, whose relics were brought here from Rome in 804, the monastery soon spread the message of Christianity as far as the Tyrol and Lower Austria.

The Headsman

Set in early 16th century Tyrol, it is set before the background of the turmoils of the Lutheran Reformation.

Tristach

Tristach is a municipality in the district of Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Vals, Tyrol

The valley stretches out to the Ziller Valley Alps (Zillertal) for about seven kilometers and ends with the peaks Kaser, Olperer, Schrammacher and Hohe Wand.

Virgen

Virgen is a municipality in the district of Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Von Görschen

He was a successful commander during the War of the First Coalition in the region of Piemont 1797 and also during the War of the Second Coalition around Taufers (South Tyrol) and Susch (Engadin) in 1799 against Napoleon Bonaparte’s army.

Walser

In Austria, there are 14 Walser communities: Grosses Walsertal (Blons, Fontanella, Raggal, St. Gerold, Sonntag, Thüringerberg), Kleinwalsertal (Mittelberg, a practical enclave of Germany), Brandnertal (Brand), Montafon (Silbertal), Reintal (Laterns), Tannberg (Schröcken, Lech, Warth), all in Vorarlberg; and in Paznauntal (Galtür), in Tyrol.


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