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Trieste's maritime location and its former long-term status as part of the Austrian Empire—later the Austro-Hungarian Empire—made the Port of Trieste the major commercial port for much of the landlocked areas of central Europe. In the 19th century, a new port district known as the Porto Nuovo was built northeast of the city centre.
The Free Territory of Trieste [2] was an independent territory in Southern Europe between Northern Italy and Yugoslavia, facing the north part of the Adriatic Sea, under direct responsibility of the United Nations Security Council in the aftermath of World War II. For a period of seven years, it acted as a free city.
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English: Map of the Free Territory of Trieste 1947–1954. Date: 1 February 2013, 22:27:51: Source: Magocsi, Paul Robert (2018) Historical Atlas of Central Europe: ...
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Map of the province of Trieste. The province of Trieste (Italian: provincia di Trieste) [2] is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. Its capital was the city of Trieste. It had an area of 212 square kilometres (82 sq mi) and it had a total population of 234,668 (as of June 2016).
The Gulf of Trieste [1] is a shallow bay of the Adriatic Sea, in the extreme northern part of the Adriatic Sea. It is part of the Gulf of Venice and is shared by Italy , Slovenia and Croatia . It is closed to the south by the peninsula of Istria , the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea, shared between Croatia and Slovenia.
Italy is also known for the presence of numerous volcanoes, the most well-known being Vesuvius near Naples, Etna near Catania (which with its 3,343 m (10,968 ft) is the highest volcano in Europe), [Note 2] Stromboli and Vulcano, in the Aeolian Islands in the province of Messina, in addition to the large caldera formed by the Campi Flegrei in ...