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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.
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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 Imperial Free City of Trieste and its Territory (German: Reichsunmittelbare Stadt Triest und ihr Gebiet, Italian: Città Imperiale di Trieste e Dintorni) was a possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the Holy Roman Empire from the 14th century to 1806, a constituent part of the German Confederation and the Austrian Littoral from 1849 to 1920, and part of the Italian Julian March until 1922.
The old town hall continued to be used as a courthouse into the 20th century but by the 1960s the first floor was only being used as a branch of the county library. [ 7 ] An extensive programme of refurbishment works, which involved converting the building for commercial use and filling in the ground floor area to create shops, was completed in ...
After becoming a free city, Trieste had to face new and increasingly powerful pressures, of both military and economic nature, from the Republic of Venice, which sought to impose its hegemony in the Adriatic Sea. The disproportion in terms of demographics, financial and military means between the two cities portended Trieste's rapid fall under ...
TRUST shoulder patch--Coat of arms of Trieste superimposed on the blue 88th Infantry division patch under a scroll with the letters TRUST. The Army command Trieste United States Troops (TRUST) was established 1 May 1947 [1] in accord with a protocol to the Treaty of Peace with Italy which created the Free Territory of Trieste as a new independent, sovereign State under a provisional regime of ...
Pages in category "Free Territory of Trieste" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...