In 1919, at the time of its annexation, the middle part of the County of Tyrol, which is today called South Tyrol, was inhabited by almost 90% German speakers. Under the 1939 South Tyrol Option Agreem
Street sign in Innsbruck, North Tyrol, commemorating the separation of South Tyrol, set up in 1923 in response to the prohibition of the original southern Tyrolean place names.
Poster saying "South Tyrol is not Italy!" on the background of an Austrian flag. The poster is located on the Austrian side of the Brennerpass border, not in South Tyrol.
The Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige is a list of Italianized toponyms aimed at replacing the place names used by the German language community in South Tyrol which was published in 1916 by
Italianization of South Tyrol
…teach children the German language. In 1923, three years after South Tyrol had been formally annexed, Italian place names, almost entirely based on the Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige, were made official by means of a decree. The German name "Tyrol" was banned, likewise its derivants and compound words such as "Tyrolean" and "South…
Street sign in Innsbruck, Tyrol, commemorating the city of Bruneck, set up in 1923 in response to the prohibition of the original southern Tyrolean place names.