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Friuli (Italian:; Friulian: Friûl ⓘ; Venetian: Friul or Friułi; Slovene: Furlanija; Austrian German: Friaul) is a historical region of northeast Italy.The region is marked by its separate regional and ethnic identity predominantly tied to the Friulians, who speak the Friulian language.
Grado (Venetian: Gravo; Friulian: Grau; Slovene: Gradež; Latin: Gradus [3]) is a town and comune (municipality) of 8,064 residents [4] in the Regional decentralization entity of Gorizia in the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located on an island and adjacent peninsula of the Adriatic Sea between Venice and Trieste.
Friuli comes from the Latin term Forum Julii ('Julius' forum'), a center for commerce in the Roman times, which today corresponds to the city of Cividale. [10] The denomination Venezia Giulia ('Julian Venetia', not referring to the city of Venice but to the Roman province of Venetia et Histria) was proposed by the Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, with the intention of marking the ...
Map of Palmanova drawn in 1593 and published in the fifth volume of Civitas Orbis Terrarum. Palmanova was built following the ideals of a utopia. It is a concentric city with the form of a star, with three nine-sided ring roads intersecting in the main military radiating streets.
View from Carnic Prealps. It is located in the historic Friuli region, about 90 kilometres (56 mi) northwest of Trieste and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Udine.The municipal area is situated in the valley of the Tagliamento River, separating the Julian Alps in the east from the Carnic Prealps in the west.
Udine (US: / ˈ uː d iː n eɪ / OO-dee-nay; [3] [4] Italian: ⓘ; Friulian: Udin; Latin: Utinum; Slovene: Videm) is a city and comune (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Carnic Alps.
View of Tarvisio in 1915. The town is in the Canal Valley (Val Canale) between the Carnic Alps and Karawanks ranges in the north and the Julian Alps in the south.Located at the border with both Austria and Slovenia, Tarvisio and its neighbouring municipalities of Arnoldstein and Kranjska Gora form the tripoint of Romance, Germanic and Slavic Europe.
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