Trieste
Proper noun
Meaning
Trieste
A province of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
A city in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, the capital of the province.
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
After being arrested and imprisoned in December 1943 by the Nazis for the “crime” of being Jewish, Daniele Israel secretly more than 250 letters to his wife, Anna, and children Vittorio and Dario, who were in hiding in Trieste.
As a result, present-day Trieste boasts many cafes, and is still known to this day as "the coffee capital of Italy".
By 1910, around a third of the city population was Slovene, and the number of Slovenes in Trieste was higher than in Ljubljana.
An observation of a flatfish from the Bathyscaphe Trieste at the bottom of the Mariana Trench at a depth of almost convert has been questioned by fish experts, and recent authorities do not recognize it as valid.
At that time the borders of Istria included part of what is now Italian Venezia-Giulia and parts of modern-day Slovenia and Croatia, but not the city of Trieste.