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The Race for Trieste (Italian: Corsa per Trieste), [8] also known as the Trieste Operation (Slovene: Tržaška operacija), was a battle during the Second World War that took place during early May 1945.
The Free Territory of Trieste [2] was an independent territory in Southern Europe between Northern Italy and Yugoslavia, facing the north part of the Adriatic Sea, under direct responsibility of the United Nations Security Council in the aftermath of World War II. For a period of seven years, it acted as a free city.
Trieste (/ t r i ˈ ɛ s t / tree-EST, [3] Italian: ⓘ; Slovene: Trst [tə̀ɾst, tə́ɾst]) [a] is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy.It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as of the regional decentralization entity of Trieste.
The Slovene Partisans, [a] formally the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Slovenia, [b] were part of Europe's most effective anti-Nazi resistance movement [4] [5] led by Yugoslav revolutionary communists [6] during World War II, the Yugoslav Partisans. [7]
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Every year about 25,000 sailors take part in the race and more than 250,000 spectators watch the Barcolana from the Trieste seafront, known as the Rive, and from the Karst highland. Thanks to the particular conformation of the territory around the Gulf of Trieste, spectators can enjoy the race from numerous observation points as if sitting in a ...
Its main goal was the proclamation of independence of the Free Territory of Trieste from Italy. The leader Giovanni Marchesich was continuously elected to the city council from 1962 to 1982. [ 1 ] In 1966 the party achieved its best result, winning two seats with 4.40% of the votes.
Cox was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, the son of Charles William Sandford Cox, a bank manager, and Mary Cox, daughter of Duncan MacGregor. [2] [3] He was educated at Southland Boys' High School, followed by the University of Otago and then a Rhodes scholarship to Oriel College, Oxford, from 1932 to 1935.