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6 eras · 1027–2026 · 27 places

Trentino

Trento, Rovereto, Riva del Garda, Cles, Pergine. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1027–1803 Prince-Bishopric of Trent FamilySearch

A state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1027; the Council of Trent met there in 1545–1563.
1803–1805 Principality of Trent, under the County of Tyrol FamilySearch · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online

Secularised in 1803 and placed under the Habsburg County of Tyrol.
1805–1810 Bavaria — Tyrol FamilySearch

Bavaria annexed Trent together with Tyrol under the Peace of Pressburg.
1810–1814 Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy — Department of Alto Adige FamilySearch

Bavaria ceded southern Tyrol in the Treaty of Schönbrunn of 14 October 1809; the change took effect on 10 June 1810.
1814–1918 Austria — County of Tyrol FamilySearch · ANNO — Austrian Newspapers Online

Back under the Austrian crown land of Tyrol until the First World War.
1918–2026 Italy — Trentino Antenati · FamilySearch

Italy occupied the area in 1918 and the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye formally ceded it.

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

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The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.

27 places on this ground

258 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

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