Entry on Trieste's History
Trieste is a small city near the border of Slovenia. Trieste is on the coast. It's known as the Pearl of the Adriatic! It has an unique history!

Venice had a very large empire around 1370 and it wanted Trieste too. But the people living there did not want to be under Venetian control and begged to become part of Austria, which was very powerful too at that time!

The Austrians agreed, drove the Venetians away and in 1382 a bond was created between the Habsburgs (imperial family). Trieste became Austria's port.

Trieste remained under the Hapsburgs control until 1918.

By the end of the 1800's the city numbered over one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants.

Great writers and poets such as Italo Svevo, James Joyce and Umberto Saba lived there.

By the end of World War One, Trieste had become part of a united Italy.

In the Second World War, Italy lost the war and Trieste was invaded by Tito's Yugoslavian troops. In 1954, Trieste was finally returned to Italy. It was then that it became the administrative seat of the smallest province in Italy and the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region.