Plaus


Plaus is a comune in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about north-west of the city of Bolzano.

Geography

As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 683 and an area of.
Plaus is one of the three municipalities of South Tyrol whose name remained unchanged by the early 20th century renaming programme which aimed at replacing mostly German place names with Italianised versions, the other two being Gais and Lana.
Plaus borders the following municipalities: Algund, Naturns and Partschins.

History

Coat-of-arms

The shield is argent a fess gules and three sable eagles. It is the arms of the Lord of Tarant, who lived in the Tarantsberg Castle until 1291. The emblem was adopted in 1966.

Society

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2011 census, 97.58% of the population speak German and 2.42% Italian as their first language.

Demographic evolution


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