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Fažana
Fažana (; , ) is a village and a municipality on the southwestern coast of Istria in Croatia. It is a fishing village. Name Fažana, which in Roman times carried the name of and then , derives its name from the presence in Roman times of ceramic and terracotta manufactures such as vases, tiles and amphorae. Its name and meaning thereof is also reflected in the coat of arms of the town, an amphora. History Roman times Fažana is a village of Roman origin. Its territory was part of the Roman Empire by 177 BC. It belonged to the Roman colony of Pula, both politically and administratively. During Roman times, Fažana was an important economic center of the Ancient Roman civilization. Its importance during Roman times was due to its manufactures, production of olive oil and later amphorae. The Ancient Roman factory of Fasana, located in the old center of the town, was noted for its production of ceramics and bricks. The production of amphorae started during the latter part of the rei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valbandon
Valbandon is a village in the municipality of Fažana, in Istria County, Croatia. Demographics According to the 2021 census, its population was 1,675. In 2011 it had a population of 1,626. References Populated places in Istria County {{Istria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphora Workshop Of Fasana
The Amphora Workshop of Fasana was a Roman factory (''figlinae'') of ceramics, chiefly amphorae, located in the Istrian town of Fasana. History The workshop was located in the old center of the town of Fasana. Founded by the Romans, this town derives its name precisely from the local production of vases. The workshop started to produce tiles and ceramics in the latter part of the reign of Augustus. The amphorae produced by the factory were used to store the products from Istria set to be exported, including grain, salted fish, wine and oil, which was notably produced in the hinterland of Fasana. The olive oil, which together with the wine was the most important product produced in Istria in Roman times, was then exported to the area of the Danubian basin, in the areas of present-day Austria, Hungary and Slovenia, and to the west along the Po up to Turin and Vercelli, also reaching the other parts of the empire, including Rome. The production of amphorae continued up to the secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pula
Pula, also known as Pola, is the largest city in Istria County, west Croatia, and the List of cities and towns in Croatia, seventh-largest city in the country, situated at the southern tip of the Istria, Istrian peninsula in western Croatia, with a population of 52,220 in 2021. It is known for its multitude of ancient Roman Empire, Roman buildings, the most famous of which is the Pula Arena, one of the best preserved Roman amphitheaters. The city has a long tradition of wine making, fishing, shipbuilding, and tourism. It was the administrative centre of Istria from ancient Rome, ancient Roman times until superseded by Pazin in 1991. History Pre-history Evidence of the presence of ''Homo erectus'' one million years ago has been found in the cave of Šandalja near Pula. Pottery from the Neolithic period (6000–2000 BC), indicating Colonization, human settlement, has been found around Pula. In the Bronze Age (1800–1000 BC), a new type of settlement appeared in Istria, called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istria County
Istria County (; ; , "Istrian Region") is the westernmost Counties of Croatia, county of Croatia which includes the majority of the Istrian peninsula. Administrative centers in the county are Pazin, Pula and Poreč. Istria County has the largest Italian language in Croatia, Italian-speaking population in Croatia. It borders Slovenia. History The caves near Pula (in latinium ''Pietas Julia''), ''Lim bay'', ''Šandalja'', and ''Roumald's cave'', house Stone Age archaeological remains. Less ancient Stone Age sites, from the period between 6000 and 2000 BC can also be found in the area. More than 400 locations are classified as Bronze Age (1800–1000 BC) items. Numerous findings including weapons, tools, and jewelry) which are from the earlier Iron Age, iron era around the beginning of common era. The Istrian peninsula was known to Ancient Rome, Romans as the ''terra magica''. Its name is derived from the Histri, an Illyrians, Illyrian tribe who as accounted by the geographer St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaius Laecanius Bassus
Gaius Laecanius Bassus was a Roman senator, who was active during the Principate. He was consul ''ordinarius'' for the year 64 AD with Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi as his colleague. Originally from Pola or Fasana in Istria, where his family owned important pottery works, Bassus was the son of Gaius Laecanus Bassus, suffect consul in 40. Based on the name of Gaius Laecanius Bassus Caecina Paetus, experts surmise that Laecanius Bassus adopted Paetus, consul suffect in 70, who was the biological son of Aulus Caecina Paetus, suffect consul in 37. This was likely a testamentary adoption, where Paetus added Bassus' name to his own in return for a bequest, for there is evidence that the younger man frequently used the name he received at birth. The name of a second man, Gaius Lecanius Bassus Paccius Paelignus, governor of Creta et Cyrenaica Crete and Cyrenaica (, ) was a senatorial province of the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, established in 67 BC, which included the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaius Laecanius Bassus (consul 40)
Gaius Laecanius Bassus was a senator and a politician of the Roman Empire, urban praetor in 32 AD then consul suffectus in 40 AD. Originally from Pola or Fasana in Istria, where his family was settled since around 50 BC Bassus owned an important pottery workshop. He had a son, Gaius Laecanius Bassus, a Roman senator and consul. Bassus might have been the brother of a certain Laecania Bassa who was the first wife of Gaius Rubellius Blandus. Based on an inscription, Attilio Degrassi Attilio Degrassi (Trieste, 21 June 1887 – Rome, 1 June 1969) was an archeologist and pioneering Italian scholar of Latin epigraphy. Degrassi taught at the university of Padova where he trained, among others, the epigraphist Silvio Panciera, ... made the assumption that Bassus was still alive in 64 during the consulship of his son. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Laecanius Bassus, Gaius 1st-century Roman consuls Laecanii ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Carlin
Mario Carlin (13 June 1915 – 30 April 1984) was an Italian tenor. He sang in the major theaters from the 1950s to the 1970s, featuring in various supporting roles and character tenor roles in major operas. He was among the first singers to appear on television in operas broadcast by RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) after World War II. After his career as a tenor, he dedicated himself to teaching singing. Biography Carlin was born in Fasana, Istria, on 13 June 1915. He was originally a fisherman in his native town, where he was called ''el nostro gardellin'' ("our goldfinch"). During World War II he moved to Pola and then to Trieste due to military service. He continued to study singing in Trieste with some fellow tenors, with whom he would share a great part of his career. Thanks to his firm will and great sacrifices he rose from his humble origins to fame, becoming a complete lyrical artist. He sang with "grace and elegance of accent". Carlin was gifted with a sweet tenoral voi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brijuni
The Brijuni () or the Brijuni Islands (also known as the Brionian Islands; ) are a group of fourteen small islands in the Croatian part of the northern Adriatic Sea, separated from the west coast of the Istria, Istrian peninsula by the narrow Fažana Strait (a.k.a. Fasana Channel). The largest island, Veliki Brijun, Veliki Brijun Island (also known as or ), (5.6 km2), lies off the coast. The second-largest island is Mali Brijun with an area of , and twelve much smaller islands. Known for their scenery, the islands are a holiday resort and a Croatian National Park. The islands gained worldwide fame in 1956 during the Brioni Meeting when the main leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement met with the host, Yugoslavia, Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, Tito, to form the Non-Aligned Movement#Policies and ideology, Brioni Declaration which served as the foundation for the policies the movement would follow. Another event which took place on the islands was the 1991 Brioni Agreeme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Ventura
Giorgio Ventura (also Zorzi Ventura) was an Italian mannerist painter of the Venetian school, active mainly in Venice, Istria and Dalmatia at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. Life At present, almost nothing is known about his life, except what written from the cartouche of one of his most famous paintings, a ''Madonna and Child with Saints Sebastian and Roch'', held in the parish church of Izola in which he wrote ''Zorzi Ventura Zaratino in Capodistria Pingieva 1603''. Born probably in Zadar, Dalmatia in an unknown year, most likely the second half of the 16th century, he left only one painting in Dalmatia: the ''Virgin with Six Saints'', in the small church of the Franciscans on the island of St. Paul, near Zadar. Traditionally it is believed that his activities in Venice and Istria began in 1598 when he signed and dated an ''Ultima Cena'' now kept in the parish church of Fažana. In 1607 he signed his latest Istrian work: the ''Concert of St. Cecilia'' in the chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laecania Gens
The gens Laecania or Lecania was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens first appear in history during the reign of Tiberius. The first to attain the consulship was Gaius Laecanius Bassus in AD 40. Origin The nomen ''Laecanius'' seems to belong to a class of gentilicia formed using the sufix ''-anius'', typically derived from cognomina ending in ''-anus'', or derived from other "a-stem" words. The name might be derived from the surname ''Laeca'', which was used by a family of the Porcia gens, or from the same root. Branches and cognomina The only important family of the Laecanii bore the cognomen ''Bassus'', originally indicating someone stout. This family settled at Fasana in Istria shortly after 50 BC, and founded an important pottery workshop, which they owned until AD 78, when Gaius Laecanius Bassus died without heirs. Members Laecanii Bassi * Gaius Laecanius Bassus, praetor ''urbanus'' in AD 32, and consul in 40.''PIR'', vol. II, pp. 259, 26 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of The Republic Of Croatia
The Government of Croatia (), formally the Government of the Republic of Croatia (), commonly abbreviated to Croatian Government (), is the main executive branch of government in Croatia. It is led by the Prime Minister of Croatia, president of the Government (), informally abbreviated to premier () or prime minister. The prime minister is nominated by the President of Croatia, president of the Republic from among those candidates who enjoy majority support in the Croatian Parliament (); the candidate is then chosen by the Parliament. There are 20 other government members, serving as deputy prime ministers, government ministers or both; they are chosen by the prime minister and confirmed by the Parliament. The Government of the Republic of Croatia exercises its executive powers in conformity with the Croatian Constitution and legislation enacted by the Croatian Parliament. The Cabinet of Andrej Plenković, current government is led by Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. Following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and surpass the ideas and achievements of classical antiquity. Associated with great social change in most fields and disciplines, including Renaissance art, art, Renaissance architecture, architecture, politics, Renaissance literature, literature, Renaissance exploration, exploration and Science in the Renaissance, science, the Renaissance was first centered in the Republic of Florence, then spread to the Italian Renaissance, rest of Italy and later throughout Europe. The term ''rinascita'' ("rebirth") first appeared in ''Lives of the Artists'' () by Giorgio Vasari, while the corresponding French word was adopted into English as the term for this period during the 1830s. The Renaissance's intellectual basis was founded in its version of Renaiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
