Prosecco (; sl, Prosek) is a village near the city of

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 prov ...

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. It is best known for giving the name to the wine

Prosecco Prosecco (; Italian: ) is an Italian DOC or DOCG white wine produced in a large area spanning nine provinces in the Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions, and named after the village of Prosecco which is in the province of Trieste, Italy. ...

. It lies above sea level.

Name

Prosecco was attested in written sources in 1308 as ''Prossecho'' (and as ''Prosec'' in 1372, ''Prossegk'' in 1421, and ''Proseck'' and ''Prosseck'' in 1494). The name is of Slovene origin, derived from the dialect common noun ''prosek'' 'path cut through the woods' (cf. standard Slovene ''proseka'', standard Serbian/Croatian is ''prosek''). The wine Prosecco was named after the village, and this wine name was later borrowed from Italian into Slovene and Croatian as ''prošek''.

Population

The population in the central area of the locality is still mainly Slovene; it was 92% Slovene before the annexation of Austrian Littoral to Italy in 1920 and subsequent Italianization. The newer part of the locality known as ''Borgo San Nazario'', built in the 1950s and 1960s, is mainly inhabited by

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that left Istria after the end of

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* Frazioni of the Province of Trieste Cities and towns in Friuli-Venezia Giulia {{FriuliVeneziaGiulia-geo-stub