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FIUME (Slay. Rjeka, Rieka or Reka, Ger. St See also:Veit am Flaum)  , a royal See also:free See also:town and See also:port of See also:Hungary; situated at the See also:northern extremity of the Gulf of Quarnero, an inlet of the Adriatic, and on a small stream called the Rjeka, Recina or Fiumara, 70 M. by See also:rail S.E. of See also:Trieste . Pop . (1900) 38,955; including 17,354 Italians, 14,885 Slays (Croats, Serbs and See also:Slovenes), 2482 Hungarians and 1945 Germans . Geographically, See also:Fiume belongs to Croatia; politically the town, with its territory of some 7 sq. m., became a See also:part of Hungary in See also:August 187o . The picturesque old town occupies an outlying See also:ridge of the Croatian See also:Karst; while the See also:modern town, with its wharves, warehouses, electric See also:light and electric trams, is crowded into the See also:amphitheatre See also:left between the hills and the See also:shore . On the See also:north-See also:west there is a See also:fine public See also:garden . The most interesting buildings are the See also:cathedral See also:church of the See also:Assumption, founded in 1377, and completed with a modern See also:facade copied from that of the See also:Pantheon in See also:Rome; the church of St See also:Veit, on the See also:model of See also:Santa Maria della Salute in See also:Venice; and the See also:Pilgrimage church, hung with offerings from shipwrecked sailors, and approached by a stairway of 400 steps . In the old town is a See also:Roman triumphal See also:arch, said to have been erected during the 3rd See also:century A.D. in See also:honour of the See also:emperor See also:Claudius II . Fiume also possesses a See also:theatre and a See also:music-See also:hall; palaces for the See also:governor and the See also:Austrian emperor; a high See also:court of See also:justice for See also:commerce and marine; a chamber of commerce; an See also:asylum for lunatics and the aged poor; an See also:industrial See also:home for boys; and several large See also:schools, including the marine See also:academy (1856) and the school of See also:seamanship (1903) . Municipal affairs are principally managed by the Italians, who sympathize with the Hungarians against the Slays . Fiume is the only seaport of Hungary, with which See also:country it was connected, in 1809, by the Maria Louisa road, through See also:Karlstadt . It has two See also:railways, opened in 1873; one a See also:branch of the See also:southern railway from See also:Vienna to Trieste, the other of the II Hungarian See also:state railway from Karlstadt .

There are several harbours, including the See also:

Porto See also:Canale, for See also:coasting vessels; the Porto See also:Baross, for See also:timber; and the Porto Grande, sheltered by the Maria Theresia See also:mole and See also:breakwater, besides four lesser moles, and flanked by the quays, with their See also:grain-See also:elevators . The development of the Porto Grande, originally named the Porto Nuovo, was undertaken in 1847, and carried on at intervals as See also:trade increased . In 1902, arrangements were made for the construction of a new mole and an enlargement of the quays and breakwater; these See also:works to be completed within 5 years, at a cost of £420,000 . The exports, See also:worth £6,460,000 in 1902, chiefly consisted of grain, See also:flour, See also:sugar, timber and horses; the imports, worth £3,678,000 in the same See also:year, of See also:coal, See also:wine, See also:rice, See also:fruit, jute and various minerals, chemicals and See also:oils . A large See also:share in the carrying trade belongs to the See also:Cunard, See also:Adria, Ungaro-Croat and Austrian See also:Lloyd Steamship Companies, subsidized by the state . A steady stream of Croatian and Hungarian emigrants, officially numbered in 1902 at 7500, passes through Fiume . Altogether 11,550 vessels, of 1,963,000 tons, entered at Fiume in 1902; and 11,535, of 1,956,000, cleared . Foremost among the industrial establishments are See also:Whitehead's See also:torpedo factory, Messrs See also:Smith & Meynie's See also:paper-See also:mill, the royal See also:tobacco factory, a chemical factory, and several flour-See also:mills, tanneries and rope manufactories . In 1902 the last See also:shipbuilding yard was closed . The See also:soil of the surrounding country is stony, but the See also:climate is warm, and wine is extensively produced . The Gulf of Quarnero yields a plentiful See also:supply of See also:fish, and the See also:tunny trade with Trieste and Venice is of considerable importance . Steamboats ply daily from Fiume to the Istrian See also:health-resort of See also:Abbazia, the Croatian port of See also:Buccari, and the islands of See also:Veglia and See also:Cherso .

Fiume is supposed to occupy the site of the See also:

ancient Liburnian town Tersatica; later it received the name of Vitopolis, and eventually that of Fanum Sancti Viti ad Flumen, from which its See also:present name is derived . It was destroyed by See also:Charlemagne in 799, from which See also:time it probably See also:long remained under the dominion of the See also:Franks . It was held in feudal See also:tenure from the See also:patriarch of See also:Aquileia by the See also:bishop of See also:Pola, and afterwards, in 1139, by the See also:counts of Duino, who retained it till the end of the 14th century . It next passed into the hands of the counts of Wallsee, by whom it was surrendered in 1471 to the emperor See also:Frederick III., who incorporated it with the dominions of the See also:house of See also:Austria . From this date till 1776 Fiume was ruled by imperial See also:governors . In 1723 it was declared a free port by See also:Charles VI., in 1776 See also:united to Croatia by the empress Maria See also:Theresa, and in 1779 declared a corpus separatism of the Hungarian See also:crown . In 1809 Fiume was occupied by the See also:French; but it was retaken by the See also:British in 1813, and restored to Austria in the following year . It was ceded to Hungary in 1822, but after the revolution of 1848–1849 was annexed to the crown lands of Croatia, under the See also:government of which it remained till it came under Hungarian See also:control in 1870 .

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