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	Encyclopedia: Brenner pass
		The Brenner Pass (Italian Passo del Brennero) is a mountain pass that creates a link through the Tyrolean Alps along the current border between the nations of Austria and Italy, one of the principal passes of the Alps.
		Heading southward through the Brenner route the Alamanni crossed into Italy in 268, to be stopped in November at the Battle of Lake Benacus.
		The EuropabrÃ¼cke (Bridge Europe) a few kilometers north of the Brenner is a large concrete bridge, letting the autobahn pass with 6 lanes over the valley of the Sill River at a height of 180 m.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brenner-pass (1198 words)

	Papa's War Part 6
		Probably closer to the truth about the reported linkup was that after we had secured Brenner Pass, an M-8 Recon Car from Division Recon had dashed down into Italy in the dark of night and had met a recon team from the 88th Division somewhere in Italy.
		Fader said, "Send your troops up to Brenner, unarmed and with their hands over their heads and they will be directed to PW cages." We insisted that the officers give us their weapons right then and there and they reluctantly complied.
		The Commanding Generals of the 103d (Mc Auliffe) and VI Corps (Brooks), plus a host of other generals and colonels, reporters from BBC, Reuters, and various US news agencies, along with other VIPs, were loaded in trucks and jeeps for a festive jaunt into Italy to formalize the linkup that had occurred during the night.
	www.pierce-evans.org /pwpart6.htm (6854 words)

	Brenner Pass
		Today the Brenner Highway, constructed in the early 1970s, is one of the major roads between Austria and Italy.
		The lowest of the principal Alpine passes, it was an important Roman route through which many invasions of Italy were made.
		Alpine pass, 4,495 ft (1,370 m) high, connecting Innsbruck, Austria, with Bolzano, Italy.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0808845.html (275 words)

	AllRefer.com - Brenner Pass, Central Europe, Central Europe (Central European Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Today the Brenner Highway, constructed in the early 1970s, is one of the major roads between Austria and Italy.
		The pass became the border between Italy and Austria after World War I. During World War II, Hitler and Mussolini held three meetings there.
		AllRefer.com - Brenner Pass, Central Europe, Central Europe (Central European Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrennerP.html (210 words)

	Brenner Pass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brenner Pass (Italian Passo del Brennero) is a mountain pass that creates a link through the Tyrolean Alps along the current border between the nations of Austria and Italy, one of the principal passes of the Alps.
		Heading southward through the Brenner route the Alamanni crossed into Italy in 268, to be stopped in November at the Battle of Lake Benacus.
		Even with the removal of customs, the long traffic jams before the Brenner Pass are dreaded by all Northern Europeans who want to spend their holidays on the Mediterranean Sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brenner_Pass (506 words)

	Brenner Pass
		Today the Brenner Highway, constructed in the early 1970s, is one of the major roads between Austria and Italy.
		Lowest of the Alpine passes, 1,370 m/4,495 ft; it leads from Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, to the Austrian Tirol, and is 19 km/12 mi long.
		In 1772, a long carriage road was built across the pass, and a railroad – the first to cross the Alps &; was opened in 1867.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0017988.html (220 words)

	Brenner Pass on Encyclopedia.com
		Today the Brenner Highway, constructed in the early 1970s, is one of the major roads between Austria and Italy.
		Mori Bypass to Lake Garda.(Brenner Autostrada in Italy)
		Mobile Americas Summit Announces Keynote Speaker and New Sponsor; Alan Brenner of Sun Microsystems joins IBM and Verizon Communications Executives in Keynote Lineup.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/brennerp1.asp (326 words)

	HANSDIARY.doc
		South of the Brenner Pass it is not possible anymore to speak of a specific style of architecture.
		From the Brenner Pass, we marched and drove through several villages and small towns whose names I have forgotten.
		The greatest difficulty would not be how to escape from this camp, but how to escape from this terrible Italy.
	www.fathersforlife.org /doc/HANSDIARY.doc (7638 words)

	MSN Encarta - Dictionary - Brenner Pass
		Bren·ner Pass Alpine mountain pass linking Innsbruck, Austria, and Bolzano, Italy.
		With a maximum elevation of 1,371 m (4,497 ft), it has been an important route between Austria and Italy since antiquity.
		Search for "Brenner Pass" in all of MSN Encarta
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861592623/Brenner_Pass.html (71 words)

	Austria - Transportation and Telecommunications
		The Brenner Pass has long been the main north-south route from Germany to Italy.
		Government regulations to counter this threat include limiting the size of international trucks traversing the country, most importantly those traveling between Germany and Italy and the Balkans via Alpine passes, especially the Brenner Pass.
		Because of its central location, Austria is an important segment of the European railroad network, and a number of high-speed international trains pass through the country.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-871.html (941 words)

	Moxy Bistro: About Us: Chef Eric Brenner
		Landing the Executive Sous Chef position, Brenner worked with the chef, a native of Italy, and a general manager from France, continuing the affair with some of the truest Italian and French cuisine offered.
		Brenner is an active member of the St. Louis Chefs de Cuisine, the local chapter of the American Culinary Federation, and is a Certified Chef.
		Brenner focused this time on utilizing his artistic flair in the presentation of large banquet platters, ice carving, desserts, and mass food production while maximizing his organizational and leadership skills.
	www.moxybistro.com /bio.html (673 words)

	Venice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 12th century the essentials for the power of Venice were laid: the Venetian Arsenal was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested control of the Brenner pass from Verona in 1178, opening a lifeline to silver from Germany; the last autocratic doge, Vitale Michiele, died in 1172.
		Venice (Italian: Venezia), the "city of canals", is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice, 45°26′ N 12°19′ E, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01).
		Venice was the early center of music printing; Ottaviano Petrucci began publishing music almost as soon as this technology was available, and his publishing enterprise helped to attract composers from all over Europe, especially from France and Flanders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venice,_Italy (673 words)

	Brenner Pass
		The pass was the route used to funnel supplies down from Austria to the ground troops in Italy.
		Thus, throughout history, Brenner Pass was of strategic importance.
		Because of the importance of the pass, it came as no surprise that the Germans kept the pass heavily armed with artillery of all kinds.
	www.geocities.com /bombgroup17/brenpas.html (1230 words)

	Otztal Alps -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The mountains are bounded by the Rhaetian Alps and Reschenscheideck Pass (Italian Passo di Resia, west-southwest), the Inn River valley (north), the Zillertal Alps and Brenner Pass (east), and the Adige River valley (south).
		Passing to Italy after World War I, the area was known as...
		The mountains are bounded by the Lepontine Alps and Splügen Pass (west-southwest), the Hinterrhein River (west), the Lechtaler Alps (northeast), the Ötztal Alps and Resia Pass (east-northeast), and the Valtellina (valley of...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9057694?tocId=9057694 (910 words)

	Hohe Tauern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hohe Tauern is the highest range of the Alps east of the Brenner Pass, and includes the highest mountains in Austria.
		They are part of the Central Eastern Alps and are located in the Austrian states of Salzburg, Carinthia and East Tyrol, as well as a small part of South Tyrol in Italy.
		The name "Hohe Tauern" originally meant "high passes", but came to be applied to the mountains themselves during the peak of mining operations during the Middle Ages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/High_Tauern (345 words)

	AllRefer.com - Trent, city, Italy, Italy (Italian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		101,545), capital of Trentino–Alto Adige and of Trent prov., N Italy, on the Adige River and on the road to the Brenner Pass.
		To safeguard their road into Italy the emperors invested (11th cent.) the bishops of Trent with temporal powers over a sizable territory; a succession of prince-bishops ruled, except for a few short intervals, until 1802, when the bishopric was secularized and became a part of Tyrol in Austria.
		Because Trent had always been Italian in language and culture, there developed a strong movement for union with Italy (see irredentism).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Trent.html (309 words)

	Jasper's Webpage of Photos
		This pass is around 4500 feet high and was the historical border of Italy and Austria.
		I believe this was through one of the towns it stopped by near the Brenner pass.
		This historic route is apparently the lowest of the alpine passes in the area.
	s87162170.onlinehome.us /Venice (1754 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Brenner Pass
		Brenner Pass, mountain pass, south central Europe, lowest of the main passes through the Alps, between Innsbruck, Austria, and Bolzano, Italy....
		Brenner, Sydney, born in 1927, South African-born British geneticist and cowinner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his...
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Brenner Pass
	encarta.msn.com /Brenner_Pass.html (97 words)

	brennersar
		Look, it's ME!!" A few shots of the wild man and his mother (and European fan club) checking out the sights on the Austrian/Italy border in the town of Brenner (or Brennero as the Italians call it).
		Brenner and I had the fortune of visiting Europe in February 2004.
		Now, essentially deserted, it is a quiet little stop at the top of Brenner Pass.
	bgmtnbelgians.aboutmontana.org /Austria.html (695 words)

	Driving thru Brenner Pass In Late January
		Most passes from Austria into Italy are pretty important routes and are kept clear.
		The Brenner, of course is hardly worth doing - but it wil be open even in bad weather.
		re: Driving thru Brenner Pass In Late January tim, 26 november 2001
	www.ideamerge.com /motoeuropa/austria/bulletinboard/messages/6.html (233 words)

	Tour Alpine Countries
		The Dolomites, Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy, and the Brenner Pass to Innsbruck in the Austrian Tyrol are scenic highlights.
		Scenic Semmering Pass, peaceful Baroque crossroad towns in Styria, and then the mountains, lakes, and popular resorts of Carinthia are on today’s agenda.
		Then drive along Ring Boulevard, pass the State Opera House and stop at famous HELDENPLATZ for a picture of the Hofburg Palace, winter residence of the Imperial Royal Family.
	www.azeurope.com /GLZF.htm (1226 words)

	The Brenner Pass near Innsbruck.
		There is an ordinary road, an extravagant motorway that is carried high above the valley floor, but seems to isolate the traveler from the environment and high on the other side of the valley, (right in this view) and far more discreetly, runs the railway line between Italy and Innsbruck.
		There are three ways of traveling through the Brenner Pass.
	www.sunnyside-studio.com /gallery_page.asp?gallery=Innsbruck&pagename=1 (198 words)

	Italy
		But the Allies were most afraid of having to fight through Brenner Pass, that winding, narrow and treacherous way to the heart of the German Fatherland.
		During WW II, the Allies landed at Solerno and struggled all the way up the boot of Italy, fighting the crafty Kesserling and his dogged Germans every single step of the way, and the Allies paid for every foot of ground with their blood.
		So with a quick 50 Ks to Munich (Munchen) and a rapid drive over the pass, we came down into Verona, a forgotten sleepy town that did at one time have a coliseum to rival Rome itself.
	dvautier.home.comcast.net /army/italy.htm (505 words)

	Innsbruck
		As a crossroads of Central Europe, with east-west travel along the length of the Inn Valley and north-south travel over Brenner Pass from Germany to Italy, Innsbruck became an important Medieval city.
		Obviously, with the rise of the Empire, Rome needed a foothold in this provice of Panonia to protect their route to the north over the Brenner Pass, immediately south of Innsbruck.
		Henry III, the Saxon king, passed through the city barefoot on his way to the Vatican as penance for offending the Pope.
	www.homestead.com /Freckleton/Innsbruck.html (373 words)

	Austria battles to cut down on truck traffic through the Brenner Pass
		Austria is trying to come to grips with traffic through the Brenner Pass connecting it to Italy, which surged after the EU stopped Vienna from setting quotas on the number of trucks that can use the crucial Alpine road.
		Herwig van Staa, governor of Austria's Tyrol province where the Brenner Pass is located, said that only "a tax on traffic through all the passes in the Alps and bans on certain transit sectors" will be able to cut down on traffic.
		The toll for a 40-ton truck driving through the Brenner Pass is 69 euros, half that charged for travel through a Swiss mountain pass.
	www.terradaily.com /2005/050403043929.o0ola5xv.html (867 words)

	Turtle Trips - Austria - Tirol: Brenner pass
		From the Swarovski Kristallwelten we drove to the Brenner pass, which is another mountain path, which eventually leads to Italy.
		Turtle Trips - Austria- Tirol: Brenner pass
		From Innsbruck, take the A13 (E45) highway, southward all the way to the pass.
	www.turtletrips.com /trip7/austr47.html (123 words)

	Essay6
		In June 1998, the Brenner pass between Germany and Italy saw a 40-hour blockade by angry demonstrators.
		And surely Denmark won't transform into a northern Brenner Pass, once the impacts of the Beltlink and the Øresund Bridge come into evidence; still, its bad enough already.
		Today, only three years later, Austria is being threatened with the EU Court, unless they give up the pollution tax to be paid by lorries crossing the Brenner Pass.
	www.eco-net.dk /ENGLISH/Essay/Essay_6.htm (1220 words)

	Lone Sentry: We Were There: From Gruber to the Brenner Pass; 88th Infantry Division WWII Unit History
		Moving more than 60 miles through the beaten enemy, advance patrols of the 349th were the first elements of the Allied Armies in Italy to make junction with forces moving south from Germany.
		Lone Sentry: We Were There: From Gruber to the Brenner Pass; 88th Infantry Division WWII Unit History
		And brought, from a vanquished foe, tributes which were all the sweeter since most of their valorous deeds were cloaked during the push.
	www.lonesentry.com /unithistory/88thinfantry/page4.html (2576 words)

	Untitled Document
		The yearning for the light of the Mediterranean lured artists such as Goethe and Duerer up to Brenner and down into Italy.
		The Romans crossed the Brenner Pass to expand their empire to the North, sixty German emperors climbed the mountain ridge to be crowned in Rome.
		The common starting point for the installation was a place called Basislager Nord on the Brenner pass.
	members.aol.com /hswinkler/niemandsland.html (354 words)

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