Department_of_Alto_Adige
Department of Alto Adige
Northern department of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy
The Department of Alto Adige (Italian and official Dipartimento dell'Alto Adige, German: Ober-Etsch Departement, French: département du Haut-Adige, translated into English Department of Upper Adige[1]) was a northern department of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. The name had been used for a district of the Cisalpine Republic. Its name, in typical Napoleonic fashion of naming departments after geographic features, derived from the river Adige (Etsch in German) which flowed through it.
Neither the Cisalpine district nor the department of the Kingdom of Italy correspond to the modern Italian province of Alto Adige (known as South Tyrol in English), although there is some geographical overlap.