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 :::I don't think the claim is that Trent is not Tyrolean; rather, I think that while the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol can properly be described as ""southern Tyrol"", with a lowercase ""s"", ""South Tyrol"" generally refers to the province created by Italy after WWI. This ngram shows that while ""Tyrol"" has been around for a long time, ""South Tyrol"" first appeared in numbers after WWI (the same is true, incidentally, for ""Alto Adige"", and ""Südtirol"". This view that ""South Tyrol"" is a modern invention is backed up here, among other sources.   "