Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).

Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

In southern Tyrol, at Runkelstein Castle, a series of frescos was executed in the last years of the 14th century.

This style, which had been in use since 1554, was replaced when Philip inherited the Spanish Crown in 1556 with " Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God King and Queen of England, Spain, France, both the Sicilies, Jerusalem and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Burgundy, Milan and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol ".

In the Tyrol region of Austria, it was said that if a sunbeam were to fall on a maiden entering womanhood, she would be carried away in the belly of a whale.

In 1984, it was granted its first Denominazione di origine controllata ( DOC ) in the province of South Tyrol.

In 1274 Albert had married Elizabeth, daughter of Count Meinhard II of Tyrol, who was a descendant of the Babenberg margraves of Austria who predated the Habsburgs ' rule.

On the death of Meinhard, Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count of Tyrol, in 1363, Upper Bavaria was claimed by the sons of the emperor Louis IV, and Tyrol by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria.

Gaining theoretical control of Tyrol for the Hapsburgs was of strategic importance because it linked the Swiss Confederacy to the Hapsburg-controlled Austrian lands, which facilitated some imperial geographic continuity.

In 1402, there was another split in the Leopoldian line, when Ernest the Iron took Inner Austria ( Styria, Carinthia and Carniola ) and Frederick IV became ruler of Tyrol and Further Austria.

Starting in the very early Middle Ages, the area was eventually ruled by the County of Tyrol or the Bishopric of Brixen, both belonging to the realms of the Austrian Habsburg rulers.

In South Tyrol, in order to reach a fair allocation of jobs in public service, a system called " ethnic proportion " was established in the 1970s.

In the following centuries, however, the sovereignty was divided between the Bishopric of Trent and the County of Tyrol ( from 1363 part of the Habsburg monarchy ).

With Napoleon's defeat in 1814, Trento was finally annexed by the Habsburg Empire, becoming part of the province of Tyrol.

After World War I, Trento and its Italian-speaking province, along with Bolzano ( Bozen ) and the part of Tyrol that stretched south of the Alpine watershed ( which was, in the main, German speaking ), were annexed by Italy.

In the year 1810 by Porta Giulia, a gate of the town at Borgo di Porto ( Cittadella ), Andreas Hofer was shot ; he had led the insurrection in the County of Tyrol against Napoleon.

In the High Middle Ages, it was part of the important Via Imperii, an imperial road linking the Kingdom of Germany north of the Alps with the Italian March of Verona, since the 12th century controlled by the Counts of Tyrol.

Around the same time, the Imperial Family was fleeing revolutionary Vienna for the calmer setting of Innsbruck, in Tyrol.

The first Alpine event was held in 1898, the Austrian Touring Club's three-day Automobile Run through South Tyrol, which included the infamous Stelvio Pass.

During the Napoleonic wars Tyrol was ceded to Bavaria, ally of France.

Between 1500 and 1503 he carved an altar, now lost, for the parish church of Schwaz, Tyrol of the " Assumption of Mary ".

Thanks to the support of the local populace he managed to keep Tyrol, but he lost the Aargau, the old homeland of the Habsburgs, to the Swiss.

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.

In the 1805 Peace of Pressburg, Ferdinand lost Salzburg to the Austrian Empire, but was compensated with the new Grand Duchy of Würzburg, Bavaria having relinquished the territory in return for the Tyrol.

Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.

The peasants of Bavaria, Tyrol, and Styria began dancing a dance called Walzer, a dance for couples, around 1750.

In 1342 Louis also acquired Tyrol for the Wittelsbach by voiding the first marriage of Margarete Maultasch with John Henry of Bohemia and marrying her to his own son Louis V, thus alienating the house of Luxemburg even more.

The Wittelsbach Emperor Louis IV acquired < span lang =" de "> Brandenburg </ span > ( 1323 ), Tyrol ( 1342 ), Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut ( 1345 ) for his House but he had also released the Upper Palatinate for the Palatinate branch of the < span lang =" de "> Wittelsbach </ span > in 1329.

The Fuggers, who dominated the copper and silver mining business in Tyrol, provided a credit of almost 1 million gulden for the purpose of bribing the prince-electors to choose Maximilian's grandson Charles V as the new Emperor.

Following the end of World War II, the Gruber-De Gasperi Agreement of 1946 between Austria and Italy introduced a level of autonomy for Trentino and South Tyrol but did not include any provisions for Ladins.

Only the second autonomy statute for South Tyrol in 1972 started recognising the minority rights for these communities.

In Tyrol, cakes are left for them on the table, and the room is kept warm for their comfort.

Consequently, an underground organization named South Tyrolean Liberation Committee tried to achieve self-determination for South Tyrol, secession from Italy and unification with Austria via terrorist acts.

The exteriors of the buildings of the fictional Brookfield School were filmed at Repton School, an independent school ( at the time of filming, for boys only ), located in the village of Repton, in Derbyshire, in the Midlands area of England, whilst the interiors, school courtyards and annexes, including the supposedly exterior shots of the Austrian Tyrol Mountains, were filmed at Denham Film Studios, near the village of Denham in Buckinghamshire.

Later that year he returned to Tyrol, where he joined the Elefantenbund, an alliance of noblemen against Friedrich IV, who had been banned by King Sigismund for aiding the flight of Antipope John XXIII from the Council of Constance.

Sigismund sent Oswald back to Tyrol to prepare the county for an expected Hussite invasion of the Empire and invited the Hussites to the Council of Basel to negotiate.

When the guardianship of Sigismund ended on 25 July 1443 and Friedrich, now King Friedrich III of the Holy Roman Empire, decided to prolong it for another six years, the Landstände of Tyrol organized an open revolt.

* Lasa, the Italian name for Laas, a municipality in South Tyrol, Italy.

Some organizations separately work for the independence of Venetia or Veneto and the session or reunification of South Tyrol with Austria.

He lobbied for the recognition of an Austrian government-in-exile, for the rights of the German-speaking population of South Tyrol, against the deportation of the German-speaking inhabitants of Bohemia and eastern Europe, and against letting Stalin rule Eastern Europe.

Meinhard III ( February 9, 1344 – January 13, 1363 ) was Duke of Upper Bavaria and the last Count of Tyrol from the House of Wittelsbach.

His daughter Margaret only was able to keep the County of Tyrol, while the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV the Bavarian passed Carinthia together with the Carniolian march to the Habsburg duke Albert II of Austria.

In the empire, Frederick faced the opposition of the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty and of his cousin Sigismund, who was duke in Tyrol, Vorarlberg, and Further Austria then.