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Slavic-Italian Anti-Fascist Union
The Slavic-Italian Anti-Fascist Union ( it, Unione Antifascista Italo-Slava, abbreviated UAIS, sl, Slovansko-italijanska antifašistična unija, abbreviated SIAU) was a political movement in the Free Territory of Trieste. It was the most important mass organization of the Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste (PCTLT/KPSTO). UAIS/SIAU had around 70,000 members. UAIS/SIAU was founded in the summer of 1945 by the Regional National Liberation Committee, as an umbrella organization of different groups seeking autonomy for Trieste or its integration into Yugoslavia. At the founding congress Triestine, Italian, American, Yugoslav, Soviet and Fiuman flags were displayed, as well as portraits of Clement Attlee, Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Josip Broz Tito.Sluga, Glenda. The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth Century Europe'. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2001. pp. 119-120 UAIS/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trieste
Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provinces. 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 approximately east and southeast of the city, while Croatia is about to the south of the city. The city has a long coastline and is surrounded by grassland, forest, and karstic areas. The city has a subtropical climate, unusual in relation to its relatively high latitude, due to marine breezes. In 2022, it had a population of about 204,302. Capital of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia and previously capital of the Province of Trieste, until its abolition on 1 October 2017. Trieste belonged to the Habsburg monarchy from 1382 until 1918. In the 19th century the mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Workers' Day
International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, or the first Monday in May. Traditionally, 1 May is the date of the European spring festival of May Day. In 1889, the Marxist International Socialist Congress met in Paris and established the Second International as a successor to the earlier International Workingmen's Association. They adopted a resolution for a "great international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the eight-hour day. The 1 May date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket affair four days later. The demonstration subsequently became a yearly event. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on "all Social Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties In The Free Territory Of Trieste
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-Fascist Youth Union Of The Free Territory Of Trieste
The Anti-Fascist Youth Union of the Free Territory of Trieste ( it, Unione gioventù antifascista del Territorio libero di Trieste, abbreviated UGA, sl, Zveza antifašistične mladine Svobodnega tržaškega ozemlja, abbreviated ZAMSTO), initially known as the Anti-Fascist Youth Union of the Julian March ( it, Unione gioventù antifascista della Regione Giulia, sl, Zveze antifašistične mladine Julijske krajine, abbreviated ZAMJK) was a youth movement in the Julian March (later the Free Territory of Trieste). It was active between 1945 and 1954. The union was formed as a continuation of Italian and Slovenian anti-fascist youth groups in the area by the end of World War II. Amongst the groups that merged into the Anti-Fascist Youth Union of the Julian March were the Young Front from Gradisca d'Isonzo, the Anti-Fascist Youth Union from Gorizia, and anti-fascist youth groups from Trieste, Istria, Rijeka, and Pula. An Italian-Slovenian youth conference had been held on September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muggia
Muggia ( vec, label=Venetian language, Venetian, Triestine dialect, Muja; german: Mulgs; fur, Mugle; sl, Milje) is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the south-west of the Province of Trieste, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia on the border with Slovenia. Lying on the eastern flank of the Gulf of Trieste in the northern Adriatic Sea, Muggia is the only Italian port town in Istria. The town's architecture is marked by its Venetian and Austrian history, and its harbour hosts a modern 500-berth marina for yachts (''Porto San Rocco''). Muggia lies in northern Istria. Its territory, limited on the sea-side by a shoreline of more than featuring a coastal road and on the border side by a hill system, Monti di Muggia, including Mt. Castellier, Mt. S. Michele, Mt. Zuc and Monte d'Oro, that dominate over a vast landscape of Triestinian and Istrian coast, is characterized by a rich sub-continental vegetation of both Karstic and Istrian type. It has a border crossing, known as San Barto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monrupino
Monrupino ( sl, Repentabor) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Trieste in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about north of Trieste, on the border with Slovenia. , it had a population of 848 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat. According to the 1971 census, 77.3% of the population are Slovenes. The municipality of Monrupino contains the ''frazioni'' (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Fernetti, Zolla, Rupingrande. Border crossings into Slovenia are located at Monrupino (called Repentabor on the Slovenian side) and Fernetti ( Fernetiči). Monrupino borders the following municipalities: Trieste, Sgonico, Sežana (Slovenia). Demographic evolution Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) id:barra value:rgb(0.6,0.7,0.8) ImageSize = width:455 height:303 PlotArea = left:50 bottom:50 top:30 right:30 DateFormat = x.y Period = ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sgonico
Sgonico ( sl, Zgonik; Triestine: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Trieste in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste, on the border with Slovenia. , it had a population of 2,130 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat. According to the 1971 census, 81.6% of the population are Slovenes. Sgonico borders these municipalities: Duino-Aurisina, Monrupino, Sežana (Slovenia), and Trieste. Name The name of the settlement was first attested in 1309 as ''Swonich'' (and as ''de Svonicho'' in 1348, ''de Vonicho'' in 1373, ''de Champanilo'' in 1374, ''de villa Svonich'' in 1421, ''Suonich'' and ''de Suonigo'' in 1525, and ''Sgonico'' in 1819). The name is of Slovene origin, derived from the Slovene common noun ''zvonik'', "belfry", (in reference to the church of Saint Michael). The phonological change ''zvonik'' to ''zgonik'' is characteristic of the local Slovene dialect; cf. also diale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Dorligo Della Valle
San Dorligo della Valle ( sl, Dolina; Triestine: or ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about southeast of Trieste, on the border with Slovenia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,019 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat. Name The Slovene name of the town, Dolina, means 'valley'. This was the official name in Italian, as well, until it was renamed to San Dorligo Della Valle in 1923, as part of the policies of Fascist Italianization. In the local Italian Triestine dialect, the village has always been referred to simply as ''Dolina''. In 2003, the denomination Dolina was adopted as the official name of the settlement in both languages; however, the municipality is still called San Dorligo della Valle in Italian. "San Dorligo" (archaically “Durlic”) is the Tergestine dialectal form of the name of the town's patron saint, Ulrich of Augsburg (Sant'Ulderico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duino-Aurisina
Duino-Aurisina ( sl, Devin-Nabrežina, german: Thübein-Nabreschin, also ; vec, label=Triestine, Duin-Aurisina) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Trieste in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Lying near the border with Slovenia, it has a substantial Slovene minority. It is named by the two major settlements, Duino (''Devin'') and Aurisina (''Nabrežina''). Geography The town lies on the Adriatic coast about northwest of Trieste, on the border with Slovenia. Duino-Aurisina borders the following municipalities: Komen (Slovenia), Doberdò del Lago, Monfalcone, Sežana (Slovenia), Sgonico, Trieste. Famous residents Slovene writer Alojz Rebula was born in San Pelagio, while the Slovene poet Igo Gruden was born in Aurisina. The Slovenian economist Ivan Ples was born in Duino, where the composer Andrej Volarič also lived. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke began his ''Duino Elegies'' while staying at Duino castle in 1912. The physicist Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Territory Of Trieste Municipal Election, 1949
Municipal elections were held in the six municipalities of the Anglo-American occupation zone ('Zone A') of the Free Territory of Trieste in June 1949, Trieste, Duino-Aurisina, San Dorligo della Valle, Sgonico, Monrupino and Muggia.COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE FREE TERRITORY OF TRIESTE SUCCEEDS AT THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS'. ''Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press'', No. 25, Vol.1, July 19, 1949, p. 34Zucca, Lorenzo. ' There were 197,266 eligible voters in the electoral rolls in Trieste and a combined number of 15,392 eligible voters in the five other municipalities. The elections were largely symbolic, as the elected officials had no formal decision-making over the Allied Military Government (AMG), which controlled the most areas of administration. Ahead of the elections, the AMG intervened in order to boost the pro-Italian conservative Christian Democracy (Italy), Christian Democracy (DC) party. The Christian Democrats were also supported by the mainstream press, represented by newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Flag (politics)
In politics, a red flag is predominantly a symbol of socialism, communism, Marxism, trade unions, left-wing politics, and historically of anarchism. It has been associated with left-wing politics since the French Revolution (1789–1799).Brink, Jan te''Robespierre and the Red Terror (1899). Socialists adopted the symbol during the Revolutions of 1848 and it became a symbol of communism as a result of its use by the Paris Commune of 1871. The flags of several socialist states, including China, Vietnam and former Soviet Union, are explicitly based on the original red flag. The red flag is also used as a symbol by some democratic socialists and social democrats, for example the League of Social Democrats of Hong Kong, the French Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The Labour Party in Britain used it until the late 1980s. It was the inspiration for the socialist anthem, ''The Red Flag''. Prior to the French Revolution and in some contexts even today, red f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
