Alto Adige (District)

Alto Adige (literally Upper Adige) was a district in the "Department of Benaco" in the Napoleon's Cisalpine Republic (1797-1798).

The District of Alto Adige is shown in red color, as part of the Benaco Department in pink color

History

Under the Cisalpine Republic a District of Alto Adige (called in Italian: Distretto dell'Alto Adige) was created as a part of the short-lived "Department of Benaco". The District of Alto Adige included some municipalities of today's province of Verona.[1][2]

The "Department of Benaco", which was created in 1797 and included some territories of actual Province of Trento and Province of Verona, was disbanded in 1798 and with it the District of Alto Adige after a structural reorganization of the Napoleon's first Italian republic.

The Alto Adige name was used again by Napoleon in 1810, a few kilometres to the north of the disappeared Alto Adige District on the upper course of the river Adige, when was created the Department of Alto Adige with administrative capital Bolzano[3].

Notes
  1. Cisalpine Republic (1797). Raccolta delle leggi, proclami, ordini ed avvisi, Vol 4 (in Italian). Milan: Luigi Viladini. p. 201.
  2. Cisalpine Republic (1798). Raccolta delle leggi, proclami, ordini ed avvisi, Vol 5 (in Italian). Milan: Luigi Viladini. p. 184.
  3. History of Bolzano

Bibliography
  • Reinhard Stauber. Der Zentralstaat an seinen Grenzen. Administrative Integration, Herrschaftswechsel und politische Kultur im südlichen Alpenraum 1750–1820 (Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 64), Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001. ISBN 978-3-525-36057-6

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