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The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rijeka (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Fluminensis; Croatian: Riječka nadbiskupija i Metropolita) is a Latin Catholic Metropolitan archdiocese in Croatia. Its episcopal seat is Rijeka Cathedral , dedicated to Saint Vitus ( Croatian : Katedrala Sv.
Primary and secondary education is essentially free because it is mostly sponsored by the Ministry of Education of the government of Croatia.Higher education is also mostly free because the government funds all public universities and allows them to set quotas for free enrollment, based on students' prior results (usually high school grades and their scores on a set of exams at enrollment).
Novi list (est. 1900, based in Rijeka; the oldest Croatian newspaper still in existence) novilist.hr; Slobodna Dalmacija (est. 1943, based in Split) slobodnadalmacija.hr; Večernji list (est. 1959, based in Zagreb) vecernji.hr; Specialized dailies. Poslovni dnevnik (est. 2004, business and financial daily) poslovni.hr
Rijeka international Airport Railway in Rijeka Ferry in Rijeka harbour The Port of Rijeka is the largest port in Croatia, with a cargo throughput in 2017 of 12.6 million tonnes, mostly crude oil and refined petroleum products, general cargo and bulk cargo , and 260,337 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). [ 75 ]
' New paper ') is the oldest Croatian daily newspaper published in Rijeka. It is read mostly in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County of Croatia, but it is distributed throughout the country. [2] Novi list had the distinction of being the only Croatian daily newspaper which kept a critical distance from the government of Franjo Tuđman during the 1990s. [2]
The Free State of Fiume (pronounced) was an independent free state that existed from 1920 to 1924. Its territory of 28 km 2 (11 sq mi) comprised the city of Fiume (today Rijeka , Croatia ) and rural areas to its north, with a corridor to its west connecting it to the Kingdom of Italy .
1920 – Free State of Fiume established per Treaty of Rapallo. [3] [9] 1921 – Communist Party of Fiume established. 1922 – Town taken by Italian forces. [3] 1924 16 March: Fiume becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy per Treaty of Rome. [3] Town becomes capital of Fiume province. [3] 1925 - Catholic diocese of Rijeka established. [10]
In 1868, following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 which created Austria-Hungary, Croatia was allowed to negotiate its own settlement with Hungary.The final Croatian–Hungarian Settlement left the possession of Fiume unsettled, pending future negotiations according to article 66, as it appeared in the Croatian version, while in the Hungarian version Fiume was declared a Corpus ...