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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.
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 ...
A bilingual street sign in Italian and Friulian Bilingual road sign (Italian and Friulian) near San Vito al Torre. This is a list in both Italian and Friulian language of place names in the historical area of Friuli, Italy, with the official spelling standard published by ARLeF - Regional Agency for the Friulian Language in 2009.
As for the region of Friuli, the factors attracting people back to their country were many, often combining with each other: the global recession of the beginning of the 1970s; the industrial and tourism development by areas that had once seen a critical exodus; the will to be a part of the reconstruction of the affected area by the earthquake ...
Location of Friuli-Venezia Giulia within Italy Provinces of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The following is a list of the municipalities of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. [1] There are 215 municipalities in the abolished provinces of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (as of January 2019): 25 in the Province of Gorizia; 50 in the Province of Pordenone
They are located in northeastern Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in northeastern Italy. They are the easternmost dolomitic group. As part of the Dolomites, they have been officially recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Site [1] under the World Heritage Convention, and most of their area is also covered by the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park.
The south of the province has a coastline on the Adriatic Sea. The province is located in the lowlands of the Po-Venetian Valley, south of the Venetian Prealps and the Alpine foothills of Friuli. The provincial capital is the city of Udine. [5] The northerly part of the province is mountainous with pine forests, upland pastures and mountain lakes.
English: Location map of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region Español: Mapa de localización de la Región de Friuli-Venecia Julia ( Italia ). Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 115 %.