Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige

The Prontuario dei nomi locali the Alto Adige, in German as " reference book of place names Upper Tschs ( South Tyrol ) ," is a list of Italianate place names in South Tyrol, which was published in 1916 by the Reale Società Italiana Geografica. This directory usually only briefly mentioned Prontuario became an important Italianisierungswerkzeug of fascist politics and still forms the basis of the official place and field names in South Tyrol. The German -speaking population complains that not historically grown, but many newly translated and fictitious names have been added.

Genesis

Already in the 1890s, Ettore Tolomei began with the German and Ladin South Tyrolean place names translate into Italian, to substantiate the claim of Italy to South Tyrol. In 1916, a year after Italy's entry into the First World War, at the instigation of Tolomei a commission to translate the place names of the " to be conquered territory " used. Within 40 days translated this Commission - consisting of Tolomei itself, the botany and chemistry Professor Ettore De Togni and the librarian Vittorio Baroncelli - 12,000 place and field names on the basis of Tolomei superficial studies. In June 1916 this list as Volume XV, Part II of the Memorie Società Reale Geografica Italiana and published in the yearbook founded by Tolomei Archivio per l' Alto Adige, con Ampezzo e Arabba. In 1923, four years after the annexation of South Tyrol, Italianisation of place names has been decreed by royal decree, formed the basis of the Prontuario. 1940 finally it was by Ministerial Benito Mussolini as the official book of names of South Tyrol. The original place and field names were reintroduced after the end of World War II, however, have up to now not have the same legal status as the Italian translations, even if they are called to place signs predominantly German-speaking places today first.

Procedure in the translation

For the translation of place names used Tolomei several methods, such as he has outlined in his introduction to Prontuario: