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Bolzano (Italian) or Bozen (German) is a town in the Trentino-Upper Adige (It. Trentino-Alto Adige) region of Italy; its 2001 population was 94,989, and the area of the commune is 52.33 sq. km. It is the capital of the mainly German speaking autonomous province of Bolzano-Alto Adige (Italian) / South Tyrol (German Südtirol) province, officially trilingual. The province covers an area of 7,400 sq. km, with 116 communes and 462,999 inhabitants (2001 census). The province recorded a population gain of 5,1% from 1991 to 2001.


The province is almost completely mountainous, and is extended on the Adige valley north of the town of Salorno; other important rivers are Eisack-Isarco, forming Eisacktal-Val d'Isarco, and Rienz-Rienza, that flows in Pustertal-Val Pusteria. The easternmost part of the province belongs to the Drava basin, tributary of the Danube.


Other important cities are Brixen-Bressanone, Bruneck-Brunico and Meran-Merano.


Bozen is internationally famous for the ice-mummy "Ötzi".


Highway A22-E45 to Trento and Verona and to Innsbruck and Munich. Railway (main connection between Italy and Germany).




For more (historical & geographical) information see South Tyrol


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Bozen - Wikipedia (1534 words)
Bozen ist seit seiner Gründung und Erhebung zur Stadt vor mehr als 800 Jahren eine Handelsstadt, die günstig zwischen den ehemals bedeutenden Handelsdrehkreuzen Venedig und Augsburg liegt.
Bozen ist vor Meran (16.900), Bruneck (10.700) und Brixen (10.500) der größte Arbeitsstandort Südtirols.
Seit 1998 ist Bozen Sitz der Freien Universität Bozen (FUB) und somit Universitätsstadt.
Bozen - Wikitravel (432 words)
Bozen (italienisch Bolzano) ist die Hauptstadt von Südtirol, am Zusammenfluss von Etsch (Adige) und Eisack und hat etwa 100.000 Einwohner.
Der Flughafen von Bozen wird von Nord- bzw.
Drei Seilbahnen führen von Bozen in die Berge (nach Oberbozen (Ritten, Jenesien und auf den zu Bozen gehörenden Berg Kohlern).
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