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  • proper noun A German-speaking region of north-east Italy; Alto Adige

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Examples

  • Her choice of holiday is both foreign and familiar - the South Tyrol is the bit of mountainous northern Italy where the locals speak German.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • Day of unity Yesterday's rather half-hearted celebration of a century and a half of Italian unity—a national holiday observed over the misgivings of the regionalist Northern League party and the outright abstention of the German-speaking region of South Tyrol—has left an appropriately downbeat memorial in the new Museum of the Roman Republic.

    A Nation of Racing Drivers Speeds Ahead Francis X. Rocca 2011

  • Speck is a slightly smoked prosciutto typical of South Tyrol, very fatty with a spicy and smoky scent, just delicious.

    Jay Weston: Obika: A Taste of Italy in LA 2010

  • Speck is a slightly smoked prosciutto typical of South Tyrol, very fatty with a spicy and smoky scent, just delicious.

    Jay Weston: Obika: A Taste of Italy in LA 2010

  • Speck is a slightly smoked prosciutto typical of South Tyrol, very fatty with a spicy and smoky scent, just delicious.

    Jay Weston: Obika: A Taste of Italy in LA 2010

  • Pasquale, a former law student, and Giuseppe, a former medical student, were inspired by the fresh-tasting pastry made by their mother from the South Tyrol region near Austria.

    San Crispino Gelato: Elizabeth Gilbert/Julia Robert's Rome Obsession In 'Eat, Pray, Love' 2010

  • When Reinhold returned to South Tyrol from his triumph on the Rupal Face, some local politicians had gathered a crowd to give him a hero's welcome.

    Brotherhood of the Mountain Shoumatoff, Alex 2006

  • He has a castle, a vineyard, and several small farms in South Tyrol.

    Brotherhood of the Mountain Shoumatoff, Alex 2006

  • Reinhold and Günther had done easily a thousand climbs together, starting as little boys in their valley in South Tyrol, a German-speaking enclave at the border of Austria and Italy that has been under Italian rule since the First World War.

    Brotherhood of the Mountain Shoumatoff, Alex 2006

  • "Messner took the microphone and said," I want to correct something: I didn't do it for South Tyrol, I didn't do it for Germany, I didn't do it for Austria.

    Brotherhood of the Mountain Shoumatoff, Alex 2006

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