Prosecco (; ) is a village near the city of

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

Prosecco Prosecco (, ) is an Italian wine, Italian Denominazione di origine controllata#Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC), DOC or Denominazione di origine controllata#Denominazione di origine controllata e garantita (DOCG), DOCG white wine pro ...

. It lies

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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 ''preseka'' or ''poseka'', standard Serbian/Croatian is ''pros(j)ek''). 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 The Austrian Littoral (, , , , ) was a crown land (''Kronland'') of the Austrian Empire, established in 1849. It consisted of three regions: the Margraviate of Istria in the south, Gorizia and Gradisca in the north, and the Imperial Free City ...

to Italy in 1920 and subsequent

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. 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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who left Istria after the end of

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* {{Authority control Frazioni of the Province of Trieste Cities and towns in Friuli-Venezia Giulia