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I Portici di Bolzano Initially inhabited by the Rhaetians, the area was settled by the Romans in 15 B.C., by general Nero Claudius Drusus, who gave the original town its Roman name, Pons Drusi. The city name later became Bauzanum. Bozen-Bolzano has been a trade city since its foundation and elevation to a city over 800 years ago, thanks to its location between the two major cities of Venice and Augsburg. Four times a year a market was held and traders came from the south and the north. The mercantile magistrate was therefore founded in 1635. Every market season two German and Italian officers (appointed from the traders who operated there) worked in this office. The city was a cultural crosspoint at that time. In 1918, during World War I Trentino, South Tyrol and Bozen-Bolzano were occupied by Italians and thereafter annexed. During fascism many Italians moved to the city from southern Italy and, after a pact between Hitler and Mussolini, the majority of habitants of Bozen-Bolzano who spoke German had to choose between moving to Germany or assimilation (the so-called 'Opzione' or 'Option'). This period was very traumatic for the German-speaking population, and rivalries and tensions emerged between those who chose to emigrate to Germany and those who stayed. The people who remained preserved their cultural identity by organizing secret German schools, and by resisting to the imposition of the Italian culture in public life. The municipal district of Bolzano is in the region/district of Trentino-South Tyrol and it's in the province of Bolzano. the postcode is 39100 and the code number is +39 0471. Inhabitants are 93.079 and the surface is about 52 km2, with a density of population about 1.779 people for km2. Distance: from Rome 458 km, from Florence 298 km and from Venice 102 km.
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