Duchy of Tridentum
Its strategic position controlling the Alpine mountain passes encouraged the eleventh-century Holy Roman Emperors to invest the Bishop Ulrich II of Trent with temporal powers over a sizable territory , as an independent prince of the Empire , with the powers and privileges of a duke . 
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