Also in 310, he lost Istria to Licinius, who could not continue the campaign, however, as Galerius fell mortally ill and died the next year.

Finally he was forced to an open protest, which he caused to be inscribed on the journals, but the action of Capo d ' Istria in reading to the assembled Italian ministers, who were by no means reconciled to the large claims implied in the Austrian intervention, a declaration in which as the result of the intimate union established by solemn acts between all the European powers the Russian emperor offered to the allies the aid of his arms, should new revolutions threaten new dangers, an attempt to revive that idea of a universal union based on the Holy Alliance against which Britain had consistently protested. The objections of Britain were, however, not so much to an Austrian intervention in Naples as to the far-reaching principles by which it was sought to justify it.

The diocese of Ljubljana ( Laibach ), Trieste-Koper ( Capo d ' Istria ), Poreč-Pula ( Parenzo-Pola ), and Krk-Rab ( Veglia-Arbe ) were formerly under the metropolitan jurisdiction of this archdiocese ; however, now the Diocese of Trieste is its only suffragan diocese.

At the end of the 8th century Charlemagne conquered Pannonia and Dacia, then Istria, Liburnia and Dalmatia, but the main littoral Liburnian and Dalmatian cites, however, remained under Byzantine control, organized to a Dalmatian archonty with Jadera ( Zadar ) in status of a provincial metropolis.

* SDP and IDS, in the 8th electoral unit ( the county of Istria et al.

In June 2001 the Istrian regionalist party IDS withdrew from the coalition government and its chairman Ivan Jakovčić resigned his post as Minister of European Integration, citing criticism of the way they governed Istria on the regional level which had been coming from other parties within the ruling coalition.

They also manage to retain control of the economically most powerful parts of the country, including the capital Zagreb, the northern Adriatic city of Rijeka and also won in Istria ( in coalition with IDS ).

After that no party challenged IDS supremacy in Istria, at least not directly.

The main policy of the IDS is intercession of cultural and economical identity of Istria and equal status for Italian and Croatian in Istria.

One year later, IDS, dissatisfied with the way Ivica Račan and his coalition partners treated Istria, left the government, although they continued to support it in Parliament.

The demographic history of Croatia is marked by significant migrations, including the arrival of the Croats in the area growth of Hungarian and German speaking population since the personal union of Croatia and Hungary, and joining of the Habsburg Empire, migrations set off by Ottoman conquests and growth of Italian speaking population in Istria and in Dalmatia during Venetian rule there.

It is also being considered to revitalize the Pula Airport ( Istria ) as a destination for low cost airlines.

In the coastal regions of Croatia ; Istria, Dalmatia and Croatian Littoral, as well as in Lika a form of Ham known as " Pršut " is made.

In Istria ham is protected by origin ( only Croatian ham that is protected ( PDO )), made only with natural herb ( garlic, sea salt, bay leaf, black papper ) and dried without smoke.

It is co-official in Slovenian Istria and in part of the Istria County in Croatia.

Italian is also recognized as an official language in Istria County, Croatia and Slovenian Istria where there are significant and historic Italian populations.

* 1831 – Capo d ' Istria, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.

The regional geographical unit of historical Dalmatia, the coastal region between Istria and the Gulf of Kotor, includes the Orjen mountain with the highest peak in Montenegro, 1894 m. In present-day Dalmatia, the highest peak is Dinara ( 1913 m ), which is not a coastal mountain, while the highest coastal Dinaric mountains are on Biokovo ( Sv.

Istria ( Croatian, Slovene: Istra, Čakavian: Istrija, Jistra, ; Italian: Istria ; Istriot: Eîstria ; German: Istrien ; Hungarian: Isztria ), formerly Histria ( Latin ), is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea.

The geographical features of Istria include the Učka mountain ridge, which is the highest portion of the Ćićarija mountain range ; the rivers Dragonja, Mirna, Pazinčica, and Raša ; and the Lim bay and valley.

" Croatian Istria " is divided into two counties, the larger being Istria County in western Croatia.

The northwestern part of Istria lies in Slovenia: it is known as Slovenian Istria, and includes the coastal municipalities of Piran, Izola and Koper, and the Karstic municipality of Hrpelje-Kozina.

Northwards of Slovenian Istria, there is a tiny portion of the peninsula that lies in Italy.

In Slovenian Istria the malvasia grape is grown in Koper area, especially on Debeli Rtič, Škocjan, Kortina and Labor.

It is believed that she was born in Istria, now in Croatia.

The city is geographically on the Istrian peninsula, though it is not in Istria county, but Primorje-Gorski Kotar county.

It is generally used in salads, often mixed with other greens in a mesclun, but is also cooked as a vegetable or used raw with pasta or meats in northern Italy and in western Slovenia ( especially in the Slovenian Istria ).

The Habsburgs eventually secured them ( by 1815 ) and Dalmatia and Istria became part of the empire, though they were in Cisleithania while Croatia and Slavonia were under Hungary.

An Italian Army eventually took Istria, started to annex the Adriatic islands one by one, and even landed in Zadar.

Marija na Škrilinama in the Istrian town of Beram ( 1471 ), painted by Vincent of Kastav ; the painting in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje in Istria by John of Kastav ( 1490 ); and woodcuts designed in the early 1520s by Hans Holbein the Younger and executed by Hans Lützelburger ( published 1538 ).

After 1806 he used the titles: " We, Francis the First, by the grace of God Emperor of Austria ; King of Jerusalem, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia and Lodomeria ; Archduke of Austria ; Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Würzburg, Franconia, Styria, Carinthia and Carniola ; Grand Duke of Cracow ; Grand Prince of Transylvania ; Margrave of Moravia ; Duke of Sandomir, Masovia, Lublin, Upper and Lower Silesia, Auschwitz and Zator, Teschen and Friule ; Prince of Berchtesgaden and Mergentheim ; Princely Count of Habsburg, Gorizia and Gradisca and of the Tirol ; and Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria ", President of the German Confederation.

* the hamlets of Bužini, Mlini, Škodelini and Škrile located to the south of river Dragonja in Istria, which were administered by Croatia from 1954, and which Slovenia claims as part of cadaster municipality Sečovlje ;

It was bounded on the north by Carinthia, on the north-east by Styria, on the south-east and south by Croatia, and on the west by Trieste, Goritza, and Istria ; with area of and population of 510, 000.

Only a few thousand Italians remain in Istria and Dalmatia as a consequence of the Italian defeat in WWII and of the slaughter of few thousands of Italians as reprisals for fascist atrocities and the subsequent choice to keep Italian citizenship by an additional approximately 300, 000 people in what became known as the Istrian exodus.

In 1039 Carinthia was inherited by Emperor Henry III himself, who finally split off the Carniolian march the next year and also granted it to Margrave Poppo of Istria.

The number of Istro-Romanian speakers has been reduced due to their assimilation into other linguistic groups that were either already present or introduced by their respective new rulers of Istria: in the 1921 Italian census, there were 1, 644 declared Istro-Romanian speakers in the area, while in 1926 Romanian scholar Sextil Pușcariu estimated their number to be closer to 3, 000.

) by the Croatian linguist Kovačec revealed only 170 active speakers ( but those counted presumably are only those still residing in the original villages where the language was actively spoken, thereby excluding those who moved to larger towns in Istria ), most of them being bilingual ( or trilingual ), except for 27 children.

Due to his health having been " impaired by the climate " of Istria, Marcello retired after eight years to Brescia in the capacity of Camerlengo where he died of tuberculosis in 1739.

However, the territory never received its planned self-government and it was maintained under military occupation respecting the division into two zones as decided by the Morgan Line: Zone A, which was 222. 5 km² and had 262, 406 residents including Trieste, was administered by British and American forces, while Zone B, which was 515. 5 km² with 71, 000 residents including north-western Istria, was administered by the Yugoslav National Army.

According to the Yugoslav census of 1945, which was considered falsified by the Quadripatite Commission set up by the United Nations, in the part of Istria which was to become Zone B there were 67, 461 inhabitants, including 30, 789 Slovenes and Croats, 29, 672 Italians and 7, 000 people of unidentified nationality.

The TIGR nevertheless tried to remain above all ideological divisions, maintaining a close relationship with the local Slovene and Croat Roman Catholic lower clergy and grassroots organizations in Istria and the Slovenian Littoral.

In 326, Crispus ' life came to a sudden end: on his father's orders, he was tried by a local court at Pola, Istria, condemned to death and executed.

In his native Istria, he was called strigoi, a local dialect word to describe a vampire.

Situated on the western coast of Istria and cooled by sea breezes, the local climate is relatively mild and free of oppressive summer heat.

The closest railway station is in Pazin, which is the seat of the Istria County local authority.

Before World War I and until World War II, Istria contained a large autochthonous Romance language speaking community consisting of Venetian dialects, Istriot and Istro-Romanian along with Italian, plus various local Slavic dialects, some of which were likewise unique to Istria.

The latter accounts for a successful winemaking industry and the emerging in recent years of a number of highly renowned local wine makers that can be traced in the wine chart of Istria.

The only places where HDZ was soundly beaten is Istria, where local Istrian Democratic Assembly won all 3 constituencies, while one seat in nearby city of Rijeka was taken by Vladimir Bebić, representative of Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar.

It is composed by three local parties, active in Slovenian Istria, namely ' Koper is Ours ' ( led by the mayor of Koper Boris Popovič ), ' Izola is Ours ' ( led by the mayor of Izola Tomislav Klokočovnik ), and ' Piran is Ours ', led by the mayor Tomaž Gantar.

Some once thought that the local freshwater streams in Istria derived from a ( non-existent ) southward branch of the Danube.

Along the route, he visited the Academy of Agram, where he studied manuscripts regarding the Vlach population settled in the valley of the Kupa ( in present-day Croatia ); in Istria, he collected material in local villages where the Istro-Romanian language was spoken.

By the 18th century most of the able men would travel to the Istria region to work as lumberjacks, attesting to the lack of paid work close to home and insufficient local resources to provide for the growing population.

This was seen as a mere formality, because Tuđman had already made a precedent by confirming opposition prefects following the disastrous defeat of his party in the 1993 local elections in Istria County.