Terenten

Terenten
Terenten
	Comune
	Gemeinde Terenten; Comune di Terento
	Parish church of Saint George
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	Terenten Location of Terenten in Italy
	Coordinates: 46°50′N11°47′E / 46.833°N 11.783°E Coordinates: 46°50′N11°47′E / 46.833°N 11.783°E
Country	Italy
Region	Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Province	South Tyrol (BZ)
Frazioni	Pichlern (Colli in Pusteria)
Government
• Mayor	Reinhold Weger
Area
• Total	42.5 km2 (16.4 sq mi)
Elevation	1,210 m (3,970 ft)
Population (Dec. 2015)
• Total	1,743
• Density	41/km2 (110/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	German: Terentner; Italian: di Terento
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	39030
Dialing code	0472
Website	Official website

Last updated February 27, 2019

Terenten (German pronunciation: [ˈterɛntn̩] ; Italian : Terento [teˈrento] ) is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Bolzano.

Italian is a Romance language. Italian, together with Sardinian, is by most measures the closest language to Vulgar Latin of the Romance languages. Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria. It formerly had official status in Albania, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro (Kotor) and Greece, and is generally understood in Corsica and Savoie. It also used to be an official language in the former Italian East Africa and Italian North Africa, where it plays a significant role in various sectors. Italian is also spoken by large expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia. In spite of not existing any Italian community in their respective national territories and of not being spoken at any level, Italian is included de jure, but not de facto, between the recognized minority languages of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Romania. Many speakers of Italian are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages.

The comune is a basic administrative division in Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.

South Tyrol is an autonomous province in northern Italy. It is one of the two autonomous provinces that make up the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. Its official trilingual denomination is Autonome Provinz Bozen – Südtirol in German, Provincia autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige in Italian and Provinzia autonoma de Bulsan – Südtirol in Ladin, reflecting the three main language groups to which its population belongs. The province is the northernmost of Italy, the second largest, with an area of 7,400 square kilometres (2,857 sq mi) and has a total population of 530,009 inhabitants as of 2018. Its capital and largest city is Bolzano.

Geography

As of December 31, 2015, it had a population of 1,743 and an area of 42.5 square kilometres (16.4 sq mi).^[1]

The municipality of Terenten contains the frazione (subdivision) Pichlern (Colli in Pusteria).

"Frazione" is the Italian name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere. It is cognate to the English word fraction, but in practice is roughly equivalent to "parishes" or "wards" in other countries.

Terenten borders the following municipalities: Kiens, Mühlwald, and Vintl.

Kiens is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Bolzano.

Mühlwald is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol, a province in northern Italy, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of Bolzano, on the border with Austria.

Vintl, is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of Bolzano.

History

Coat-of-arms

The emblem represents a sable plough on gules background; it is the symbol of the local agriculture. The arms were granted in 1969.^[2]

In heraldry, sable is the tincture black, and belongs to the class of dark tinctures, called "colours". In engravings and line drawings, it is sometimes depicted as a region of crossed horizontal and vertical lines, or else marked with sa. as an abbreviation.

A plough (UK) or plow is a tool or farm implement used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting to loosen or turn the soil. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by working animals such as oxen and horses, but in modern times are mostly drawn by tractors. A plough may be made of wood, iron, or steel frame with an attached blade or stick used to cut the soil and loosen it. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, although despite archeological evidence for its use written references to the plough do not appear in the English language before c. 1100, after which point it is referenced frequently. The plough represents one of the major agricultural inventions in human history. The earliest ploughs were wheelless, and the Romans used a wheelless plough called the aratrum, but Celtic peoples began using wheeled ploughs during the Roman era.

In heraldry, gules is the tincture with the colour red. It is one of the class of five dark tinctures called "colours", the others being azure (blue), sable (black), vert (green) and purpure (purple).

Society

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2011 census, 99.40% of the population speak German, 0.54% Italian and 0.06% Ladin as first language.^[3]

Ladin is a Romance language consisting of a group of dialects that some consider part of a unitary Rhaeto-Romance language, mainly spoken in the Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy in the provinces of South Tyrol, the Trentino, and the Belluno, by the Ladin people. It exhibits similarities to Swiss Romansh and Friulian.

Demographic evolution

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References

↑ All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.
↑ Heraldry of the World: Terenten
↑ "Volkszählung 2011/Censimento della popolazione 2011". astat info. Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol (38): 6–7. June 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-14.

External links

(in German)(in Italian) Homepage of the municipality
(in English) Tourist Information Terenten

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[istat-1] All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.

[2] Heraldry of the World: Terenten

[3] "Volkszählung 2011/Censimento della popolazione 2011". astat info. Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol (38): 6–7. June 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-14.