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South Tyrol
South Tyrol/Südtirol
General information
Population: 487.673 inhabitants (2006)
Area: 7.400 km2
Institutions: Province of Bozen
State administration: Italy
Major cities: Bozen (Bolzano), Meran (Merano), Brixen (Bressanone), Brünick (Brunico)
Territorial language: German and Ladin
Official language: German and Italian
Major religion: Christianity (Catholicism)
Politics
Administration: Province of Bozen
President of the Province: Luis Durnwalder, South Tyrolean People's Party (1989)
Political system: autonomous province with its own government and parliament
Distribution of seats in Parliament (2008). 35 members:
Südtiroler Volkspartei: 18
Die Freiheitlichen: 5
Il Popolo della Libertà: 3
Demokratische Partei: 2
Grüne-Verdi-Vërc: 2
Süd-Tiroler Freiheit: 2
Union für Südtirol: 1
Lega Nord Südtirol: 1
Unitalia: 1
Electoral system: proportional
Government: Coalition of SVP, Peace and Rights and Autonomist Union
Degree of autonomy: quite wide after the 1972 reform of the Statute of Autonomy. The South Tyrolean autonomy is warranted by a bilateral agreement between Italia and Austria.
Links
Politics
Province of Bozen (in Italian, German, Ladin, English and French) www.provincia.bz.it
Language and Culture
European Academy Bozen EURAC (in Glemany, Italian, Ladin and English) www.eurac.edu
Media
Diari Dolomiten (in German) www.dolomiten.it
Ràdio ORF Südtirol Heute (in German) http://tirol.orf.at/magazin/studio/suedtirolheute
