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Trieste is located at the head of the Gulf of Trieste, on a narrow strip of Italian territory lying between the Adriatic Sea and Slovenia; Slovenia lies close, at approximately 8 km (5 mi) east and 10–15 km (6–9 mi) southeast of the city, while Croatia is about 30 km (19 mi) to the south of the city.
Unofficial coat of arms of the Free Territory of Trieste as used in Zone B from 1947 to 1954. Since 1382, Trieste had been part of the Habsburg monarchy, whilst neighboring Istria had been divided for centuries between the Habsburg monarchy (its central, northern and eastern parts) and the Republic of Venice (its western and southern parts ...
Tensions and political conflicts, both internal and in Trieste, Trieste is between the municipality and the central government, there were years in which Prince Konrad Hohenlohe was the imperial governor of the region (1904–1915), since he was a supporter of the so-called tribalism and followed a filoslava policy.
The Gulf of Trieste [1] is a shallow bay of the Adriatic Sea, in the extreme northern part of the Adriatic Sea. It is part of the Gulf of Venice and is shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. It is closed to the south by the peninsula of Istria, the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea, shared between Croatia and Slovenia. The entire Slovenian ...
The dispute over the port of Trieste however remained open until 1954, until the short-lived Free Territory of Trieste was divided among Italy and Yugoslavia, thus giving Slovenia access to the sea. This division was ratified only in 1975 with the Treaty of Osimo , which gave a final legal sanction to Slovenia's long disputed western border.
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 ...
The province of Trieste (Italian: provincia di Trieste) [2] is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. Its capital was the city of Trieste . It had an area of 212 square kilometres (82 sq mi) and it had a total population of 234,668 (as of June 2016).
The cliffs of Duino and the gulf of Sistiana, Province of Trieste, Italy, seen from the Rilke Trail. The Karst Plateau or the Karst region (Slovene: Kras, Italian: Carso), also locally called Karst, is a karst plateau region extending across the border of southwestern Slovenia and northeastern Italy.