This is a list of the Patriarchs of Grado (north-eastern Italy).
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. In 1828 Pope Leo XII
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abolished the see as a residential diocese with effect from the death of Bishop Teodoro Lauretano Balbi on 23 May 1831. Its territory then passed to the diocese of Trieste-Capodistria. The Second World War
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brought about a change of political borders and in 1977 what had been the territory of the diocese of Aemona or Cittanova became part of the Croatia
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n diocese of Poreč and Pula.
No longer a residential bishopric, Aemona or Cittanova is today listed by the Catholic Church
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as a titular see
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.
Because of the connection of this Aemona with Istria
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, some have questioned whether the episcopal see is to be identified with the Emona or Aemona, whose site is now occupied by Ljubljana. It has even been argued that there were in fact three cities called by the same or similar names, the one that Pliny the Elder
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speaks of as a '' colonia'' in the province of Pannonia
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; another in the province of Noricum
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; and a third in Istria.
Emona in literary fiction
* Emona is the setting of a 1978 novel ''Tujec v Emoni'' (Stranger in Emona) by Mira Mihelič
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* Emona is mentioned in Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel ''The Historian''.
* The four volumes of the 2014 series ''Rimljani na naših tleh'' (Romans on our soil) by Ivan Sivec
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describe Emona in various epochs.
* Several chapters of the novel series ''Romanike'' are set in Emona.The Romanike Series
, by Codex Regius (2006-2014)
Gallery
File:Emona.png, True to scale 1st century AD Emona vith insulase, wall, gates and towers. Note high level of modern streets and walls still overlapping
File:Emona v Ljubljani (6).jpg, South Emona's wall with information panel. This location is one of the spots on a footpath, connecting the locations of ten ancient sites in present-day Ljubljana. Suggested starting point: City Museum of Ljubljana.
File:Emona3.JPG, Excavations at the building site of the planned new National and University Library of Slovenia
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. One of the discoveries was the ancient Roman public bath house.[Bernarda Županek (2010]
"Emona, Legacy of a Roman City"
Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Ljubljana.
File:Argonauts building Emona Valvasor XIII 9.jpg, A depiction of the Argonauts building Emona, published in the '' Glory of the Duchy of Carniola'' (1689) by Johann Weikhard von Valvasor
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File:ZgodnjekrscanskiCenter-Ljubljana.JPG, Early Christian centre in Emona
References
Further reading
* Ljudmila Plesničar Gec. ''Urbanizem Emone / The Urbanism of Emona''. City Museum of Ljubljana; The Research Institute of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Ljubljana, 1999.
MS Kos. Emona was in Italy not Pannonia. 2003
External links
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Bernarda Županek: Emona: mesto v imperiju/Emona: A City of the Empire (Slovene, English)
Interactive archaeological map of Emona on top of map of Ljubljana
Geopedia.si.
3D images. Burger.si.
Panoramic virtual tour of the ancient wall of Emona
* Culture.si articles about the city
Roman Emona
Emona, Legacy of a Roman City
A day in Emona
short movie about life in Roman settlement
Roman towns and cities in Slovenia
Coloniae (Roman)
History of Ljubljana
Aemona
Emona (early gkm, Ἤμονα) or Aemona (short for ) was a Roman castrum, located in the area where the navigable Ljubljanica river came closest to Castle Hill,
Ancient Greek geography
Argonautica
Roman fortifications in Slovenia