Department of Alto Adige

Dipartimento dell'Alto Adige Ober-Etsch Departement
Department of Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)
1810–1814
French map of Napoleonic Italy, with the department of Alto Adige (French: Haut-Adige) located in the north
Capital	Trento
History
• Established	1810
• Disestablished	1814

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.