Tyrol

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Tirol, Tirolis, Teriolium, is the most Southern Province of Germany; called by the Natives, Tyrol. Bounded on the North by the Dukedom of Bavaria, on the East by the Bishoprick of Saltzburg, on the South by the States of Venice, and on the West by the Grisons and Swiss. It took this name from an ancient, but ruined City, upon the River Adige or Etsch: which, with the Inne, water this County: and from this last it is sometimes called Etschelandt. The Tridentine Alpes divide it also into almost equal parts. The chief Places in it, are Inspruck, and Inthal. This County fell to Albert and Leopold Dukes of Austria by Inheritance, in 1366: and is still in that Family. It is accounted the greatest County in Europe: though Mountainous, yet it abounds in Mines and Game. There is also in it Trent, (famous for the late Council) Bixen, and a Place of great Trade called Bolzan.