Related to the border in Piran Bay is Slovenian access to international waters in the form of a corridor which would require Croatia to cede its exclusive rights over at least some of its territorial waters to the west of Umag.

The Port of Piran is also used for the international transport of salt, whereas the Port of Izola is used for fish disembarkation.

Saint Piran or Perran ( traditionally in Cornwall, saints are simply named, without this title ) () is an early 6th century Cornish abbot and saint, supposedly of Irish origin.

The 14th century ' Life of Saint Piran ', probably written at Exeter Cathedral, is a complete copy of an earlier Irish life of Saint Ciarán of Saighir, with different parentage and a different ending that takes into account Piran's works in Cornwall, and especially details of his death and the movements of his Cornish shrine ; thus " excising the passages which speak of his burial at Saighir " ( Doble ).

5 March is the traditional feast day of both Saint Ciarán of Saighir and Saint Piran, but the Calendar of Launceston Church records an alternative date of 18 November for the latter.

* Charles Plummer suggested that Piran might, instead, be identified with Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, who founded the monastery of Clonmacnoise also in County Offaly but this is doubtful since this saint is believed to have died of yellow fever at the age of thirty-two and was traditionally buried at Clonmacnoise.

* The St Piran Trust has undertaken research which has led them to the conclusion that Saint Piran was indeed Saint Ciarán of Saighir or perhaps a disciple, as indicated by Dr James Brennan of Kilkenny and Dr T. F. G. Dexter, whose thesis is held in the Royal Cornwall Museum.

The earliest documented link to the design of the St Piran's Flag with St Piran is on the coat of arms of the de Saint-Péran or Saint-Pezran ( pronounced Peran ) family from Cornouaille in Brittany.

Mount St. Piran is a mountain in Banff National Park near Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, named after the saint.

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.

Further in the same direction is the Adriatic coast, where the most important historical monument is the Venetian Gothic Mediterranean town of Piran.

The flag is attributed to Saint Piran, a 6th century Cornish abbot.

Saint Piran is supposed to have adopted these two colours from seeing the molten tin spilling out of the black ore in his fire.

* Saint Peran or Saint Pezran (= Piran ) of Brittany ( from Glomel, in Cornouaille ), is described as " sable a cross patée argent ".

The village's name is Cornish for Saint Piran's cove ( Saint Piran is one of the patron saints of Cornwall ).

It is believed that Saint Piran founded a church at Perranzabuloe near Perranporth in the seventh century.

With Saint Piran and Saint Michael, he is one of the patron saints of Cornwall.

Koper () (; ) is a city in southwestern Slovenia, with the other Slovenian coastal towns Ankaran, Izola, Piran, and Portorož, situated along the country's 47-kilometer coastline, approximately five kilometers from its border with Italy.

Piran () is a town in the Municipality of Piran in southwestern Slovenia on the Gulf of Piran on the Adriatic Sea.

Among them, the most famous are Ptuj, Škofja Loka and Piran.

It has evolved over time, the most recent verse ( about St Piran ) only appeared within the 21st century.

Later changes include moving the organ ( twice ) and a number of new stained glass windows: many of these portray saints, including St Materiana, St George and St Piran.

In the 5th and 6th centuries the area was allegedly evangelized by the children of Brychan and saints from Ireland, like Saint Piran ; and Wales, like Saint Petroc or Saint Keyne.

The window depicts St Michael at the top and nine Cornish saints, Piran, Petroc, Pinnock, Germanus, Julian, Cyriacus, Constantine, Nonna and Geraint in tiers below.

Cornish saints such as Piran, Meriasek, or Geraint exercised a religious and arguably political influence ; their activities also connected Cornwall strongly with Ireland, Brittany, Scotland, and Wales, where many of these saints were trained or formed monasteries.

It has been used as a flag representing Wales ( as an alternative to the Red Dragon flag ), in the same sense that the crosses of Saint George, Saint Andrew, Saint Patrick and Saint Piran are used to represent England, Scotland, Ireland and Cornwall ( of which they are, respectively, patron saints ).

The rebellion was initiated by Sheikh Said of Piran who was reported to have been assisted by tribal elements from Syria.

* Saint Piran ' rediscovered ' tin-smelting ( tin had been smelted in Cornwall since before the Romans ' arrival, but the methods had since been lost ) when his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore, had the tin smelt out of it and rise to the top in the form of a white cross ( thus the image on the flag ).

The churches at Perranuthnoe and Perranarworthal were dedicated to Piran and holy wells at Perranwell and Probus, Cornwall are named after him: in Brittany St. Peran, Loperan and Saint-Perran are also named after him.

The head of St Piran appears to be a portrait of Trevithick himself and the figure carries the banner of Cornwall.

When he was MP for North Cornwall, Paul Tyler led a successful campaign, backed by the local media, to gain reassurances from the Planning Minister that rules which prevent the St Piran ’ s flag flying without permission could be ignored by local Councils.

* In search of Saint Piran: an account of his monastic foundation at Perranzabuloe, Cornwall ( 1982 )

* G. H. Doble thought that Piran was a Welshman from Glamorgan, citing the lost chapel once dedicated to him in Cardiff.

Piran before the inner marina was buried and remade into a town squareThe decline of the Empire, from the 5th century AD onwards, and incursions by the Avars and Slavs at the end of the 6th century, prompted the Roman population to withdraw into easily defensible locations such as islands or peninsulas.

A postcard of Piran from 1909, with the The Tartini Square and the former trolleybus ( in operation between 1909 and 1912 )

The physician Peter Bossman, who came over from Ghana in the late 1970s, was elected mayor of Piran.

Piran was heavily influenced by the Venetian Republic and Austria-Hungary, therefore the monuments differ greatly from the ones in inner parts of Slovenia.

The Piran town walls were constructed to protect the town from Ottoman incursions, and many parts of the town walls from different eras remain up to this day and are important attractions for tourists.

Towns along the coastline include ( from east to west ) Koper, Izola, and Piran.

The first realistic calculations of rotating collapse were carried out in the early eighties by Richard Stark and Tsvi Piran in which the gravitational wave forms resulting from formation of a rotating black hole were calculated for the first time.

Among other things, Jelinčič has proposed that the national border with Croatia be sealed, apart from two custom stations for trade, until the territorial dispute with Croatia is resolved ( primarily the issue of the maritime border on the Gulf of Piran and several small areas along the land border ).

He was the disciple of Swamy Sri Kidambi Appullar alias Sri Aathreya Ramanujachariar who comes in the lineage starting from Sri Ramanuja with Sri Thirukurugai Piran Pillan alias Sri Kurugesar, Sri Kidambi Aachan, Sri Aathreya Ramanujar, Sri Aathreya Rangarajachariar and many in the order.

The steam locomotive named ‘ Thomason ’ ran with two wagons for carrying earth from Roorkee to Piran Kaliyar in 1851, two years before the first passenger train ran from Bombay to Thane in 1853.