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The city is called Rijeka in Croatian, Reka in Slovene, and Reka or Rika in the local dialects of the Chakavian language. It is called Fiume in Italian and in Fiuman Venetian. All these names mean 'river' in their respective languages. [10] [11] Meanwhile, in German the city has been called Sankt Veit am Flaum / Pflaum (lit. ' St.
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 .
Fiume was at the time a so-called "irredent land" Italian province of Fiume, 1924 Province of Fiume, April 1941 – September 1943. The isles of Veglia ed Arbe are included. Fiume (Rijeka) in 1937. The period of diplomatic acrimony was closed by the bilateral Treaty of Rome (27 January 1924), signed by Italy and Yugoslavia. With it the two ...
Territories promised to Italy by the 1915 Treaty of London, i.e. Trentino-Alto Adige, the Julian March and Dalmatia (tan), and the Snežnik Plateau area (green).. Since at least 18th century, Croatia and Hungary, both realms of the Habsburg monarchy at the time, laid competing claims on the city of Rijeka (Italian: Fiume) – as a part of the national territory and an important Adriatic port. [7]
The provincial capital, the city of Fiume, was annexed to Italy with the Treaty of Rome, (27 January 1924), and the formal Italian annexation occurred on 16 March 1924, and the Rijeka province between April 1941 and September 1943, when it included the islands of Krk and Rab. Amongst the municipalities with the highest percentage of Italian ...
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] 1926 – Unione Sportiva Fiumana football club formed. 1945 – Yugoslavs in power. [3] 1946 – NK Kvarner football club active. 1947 – Fiume becomes part of Yugoslavia ...
Territory of the corpus separatum before 1918. Territory of the Free State from 1920 to 1924. Territory of the Province of Fiume, 1924. This is a list of governors of the Corpus separatum of Fiume (formally known as City of Fiume and its district), heads of state of the Free State of Fiume and prefects of the Province of Fiume (now modern Rijeka and its surrounding area, in Croatia).
The Modruš-Rijeka County (Croatian: Modruško-riječka županija; Hungarian: Modrus-Fiume vármegye) was a historic administrative subdivision of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Croatia-Slavonia was an autonomous kingdom within the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen ( Transleithania ), the Hungarian part of the dual Austro-Hungarian Empire .