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Author:
Allom, Thomas ; Tombleson, William ; Isser, Johanna ¬von¬ ; Hormayr, Joseph ¬von¬ / from drawings by T. Allom, after original sketches by Johanna v. Isser, geb. Grossrubatscher, with letterpress descriptions, by a companion of Hofer
Place:
London
Publisher:
Tomleson
Physical description:
72 S. : 46 Stahlst., Kt.
Language:
Englisch
Location mark:
462
Intern ID:
529298
Romans, who kept continually adyancing towards the highlands from their well-known Settlement of Tridentum, Trient, or Trent. The Theodosian Tables refer to thè bridge of Drusus, in the valley of Botzen, and there still exists a watch-tower on the Talfer which bears the name of the “ Tower of Drusus and we find, through the lapse of time and corruption of language, that “ Präsidium Tiberio has been altered into Pradein, part of the dissolved canonry of Gries, which became afterwards a princely castle
- tainous region to the bishops of Feltre, Brixen, and Trient. From this epoch, Botzen be came thè object of continuai feuds between the ecclesiastical dignitaries and the counts of Eppan ; but after the defeat of the latter nobles, the prefects of the bishops, the counts of Tyrol, supported by force of arms their claim to this important commercial city, the posses- sion of which they eventually succeeded in obtaining. The counts of Eppan retreated over the Adige to Hohen-Eppan, occupying a site between