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Trentino (Name of that part of Tyrol)

THE, the name of that part of Tyrol which adjoined Italy before the World War. This territory constituted one of the claims for which Italy entered the World War on the side of the Allies, in 1915, and was immediately occupied by the Italian army on beginning operations against the Austrians.

The territory in question is in the southern part of the Tyrol, covers the Adige Valley, being watered by the Adige river, and its chief center of population is the city of Trent, whence the name of the Trentino is derived. This southern valley is bounded on the E. by the Trent (or Trentino) Alps, on the W. by the Ortler Alps, which project down into the fields of Lombardy. The main chain is cleft toward the center of the Trentino by a deep depression, in which Adige Valley, in the Italian claims, were lies the Brenner Pass. Included with the ning and weaving, dyeing, iron founding, the Roveredo Valley and the Valley of and the manufacture of cloth, pottery, the Sarca, or district of Riva, on Lake and cards. In the vicinity are great Garda. The claims of Italy rested not marble quarries. Trent was a Roman only on the nationality of the population colony, became in the 4th century the of the Trentino, but on a historical basis seat of a bishop, and in 574 of a Lomas well. In early times this whole counbard duke. In 1027 Konrad II. granted try had been in possession of the Roto its bishops princely rank and the fief mans. Later it fell to the Germanic barof the town. The bishropic was secularized in 1803, and added to the Austrian crown-lands. It is in the territory awarded to Italy by the treaty of St.

Germain. Pop. about 30,000.

TRENT, COUNCIL OF, the 18th in order and the first in importance of the "Ecumenical" councils recognized by the Roman Catholic Church; was called forth by the Reformation in the 16th century, and demanded by both parties in the contest, for the reform of church discipline and the settlement of the points of controversy. After being repeatedly postponed, it was convened at Trent as an exclusively Roman council by Pope Paul III., Dec. 13, 1545. In barians who invaded Lombardy. During the Napoleonic Wars the southern Tyrol, or the Trentino, was annexed to Italy, in 1814, but was given back to Austria in the year following. During the Austrian administration, however, the Italian inhabitants made continuous efforts to be separated from the German Tyrol, as a separate administrative unit, at least.

Economically, too, the interests of the people were Italian, as their entire trade was with the S., their wood and cattle being exchanged for the grains grown in the plains of Lombardy. Italy's lack of national unity, till the middle of last century, and, later her interests in Africa, compelling her to seek an alli-