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The South Tyrol was part of Austria until after WWI, when it was given to Italy because the Italians joined what turned out to be the winning side in the war. A large part of the population speaks German and the towns tend to have a German version and an Italian version of their name.

I just happened to look at the "Ancient Origins" section on my Family Tree DNA account. There is an icon in the Switzerland/Austria area and I clicked on it. It was all about O"tzi, who was described as belonging to a 4th millennium BCE farming culture from what is currently known as South Tyrol, Austria.

Maybe someone should tell them that South Tyrol now belongs to Italy.

As I recall, Ötzi was found just yards inside the unmarked border between Italy and Austria. There was some squabble over which side of the line he was on.

""It was all about O"tzi, who was described as belonging to a 4th millennium BCE farming culture from what is currently known as South Tyrol, Austria.

" “To answer that question, Sikora's team sequenced Ötzi's entire genome and compared it with those from hundreds of modern-day Europeans, as well as the genomes of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer found in Sweden, a farmer from Sweden, a 7,000-year-old hunter-gatherer iceman found in Iberia, and an Iron Age man found in Bulgaria. The team confirmed that, of modern people, Sardinians are Ötzi's closest relatives. But among the prehistoric quartet, Ötzi most closely resembled the farmers found in Bulgaria and Sweden, while the Swedish and Iberian hunter-gatherers looked more like present-day Northern Europeans. ||*|| "