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Fiume o morte! (transl. Rijeka or death!) is a 2025 comedy docudrama film directed by Igor Bezinović. It features reenactments and reconstructions of Gabriele D'Annunzio's occupation of Rijeka. It premiered at the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it won the Tiger Award.
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 .
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 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. [9] [10] Meanwhile, in German the city has been called Sankt Veit am Flaum / Pflaum (lit. ' St.
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 .
On 12 September 1919, D'Annunzio occupied the city of Rijeka (Fiume) and proclaimed the Italian Regency of Carnaro, but the approval of the Treaty of Rapallo on 12 November 1920 turned the territory into an independent state, the Free State of Fiume. Other parts of the Treaty of Rapallo were supposed to solve the dispute between the Kingdom of ...
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).
Rijeka-Fiume, which had enjoyed special status within the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen (the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary), became an independent city-state in the Treaty of Rapallo: the Free State of Fiume. It was abolished following the 1924 Treaty of Rome and divided between Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.