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Koper began as a settlement built on an island in the southeastern part of the Gulf of Koper in the northern Adriatic. Called Insula Caprea (Goat Island) or Capro by Roman settlers, it developed into the city of Aegida, [2] which was mentioned by the Roman author Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia (Natural History) (iii. 19.
Satellite image of Trieste and its gulf Koper Izola Piran. The Slovene Riviera (Slovene: Slovenska obala) is the coastline of Slovenia, located on the Gulf of Trieste, by the Adriatic Sea. It is part of the Istrian peninsula and is 46.6 km long. [1] The region comprises the towns of Koper and Piran with Portorož, and the municipality of Izola ...
A subaquatic aqueduct connected the island of Koper to the mainland as early as the end of the 14th century. By the 16th century, the 10,000 inhabitants of the city were facing a water shortage, rainwater cisterns having become inadequate. In the 17th century, Niccolò Manzuoli recorded the city water supply, noting that a 2-mile distant spring ...
Port of Koper (Slovene: Luka Koper, Italian: Porto di Capodistria) is a public limited company, which provides port and logistics services in the only Slovenian port, in Koper. It is situated in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea , mainly connecting markets of Central and Southeast Europe with the Mediterranean Sea and Far East .
The Koper Regional Museum (Slovene: Pokrajinski muzej Koper; Italian: Museo regionale di Capodistria) has been housed since 1954 in the spacious early 17th century Belgramoni Tacco Palace, and is responsible for the movable cultural heritage in Primorska region of Slovenia.
View history; General What links here; ... Koper [3] Izola [4] Lake islands. Bled island; ... Bled Island: 0.012 (1.2 ha)
The Bay of Koper in Slovenia; The Gulf of Piran, the sovereignty over which has been a matter of dispute between Croatia and Slovenia since 1991. The entire Slovenian coastline is located on the Gulf of Trieste. Its length is 46.6 kilometres (29.0 mi). [2] Towns along the coastline include (from east to west) Koper, Izola, and Piran.
The name Penelakut comes from penálaxeth', the village on the northeast end of Penelakut Island, once the largest Hul'qumi'num-speaking village in the Gulf Islands. Penálaxeth' means "log buried on the beach", which may refer to the many longhouses that were once on the beach near there.