Vinschgau
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The Vinschgau, Vintschgau () or Vinschgau Valley ( ; ; ; medieval toponym: Finsgowe) is the upper part of the Adige or Etsch river valley, in the western part of the province of South Tyrol, Italy.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Vinschgau
- Settlement.other_name
- Vintschgau
- Settlement.official_name
- Comunità comprensoriale Val VenostaBezirksgemeinschaft Vinschgau
- Settlement.settlement_type
- District
- Settlement.image_map
- Karte Vinschgau.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Vinschgau district (highlighted in green) within South Tyrol; the yellow-black stripes mark the geographical extent of the valley
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous region
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1962
- Settlement.seat_type
- Administrative seat
- Settlement.seat
- Schlanders (Silandro)
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1442
- Settlement.population_total
- 35043
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- valley
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- South Tyrol
- Elevation
- 3905
- Body of water
- Adige
- Image
- Oberes Vinschgau.jpg
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- Etymology
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The Vinschgau, Vintschgau () or Vinschgau Valley ( ; ; ; medieval toponym: Finsgowe) is the upper part of the Adige or Etsch river valley, in the western part of the province of South Tyrol, Italy.
==Etymology== The German name Vinschgau, like Italian Val Venosta, is derived from the Celtic (Rhaetian) Venostes tribes mentioned on the ancient Tropaeum Alpium. A Frankish Gau was established under Charlemagne in 772; it was first mentioned in a 1077 deed, when King Henry IV of Germany granted the estates of Schlanders in pago Finsgowe to Bishop Altwin of Brixen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vinschgau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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