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See also:FRIULI (in the See also:local See also:dialect, Furlanei) , a See also:district at the See also:head of the Adriatic See also:Sea, at See also:present divided between See also:Italy and See also:Austria, the See also:Italian portion being included in the See also:province of See also:Udine and the district of Portogruaro, and the See also:Austrian comprising the province of See also:Gorz and Gradiska, and the so-called Idrian district . In the See also:north and See also:east See also:Friuli includes portions of the See also:Julian and Carnic See also:Alps, while the See also:south is an alluvial See also:plain richly watered by the Isonzo, the Tagliamento, and many lesser streams which, although of small See also:volume during the dry See also:season, come down in enormous floods after See also:rain or thaw . The inhabitants, known as Furlanians, are mainly Italians, but they speak a See also:dialect of their own which contains See also:Celtic elements . The See also:area of the See also:country is about 3300 sq. m.; it contains about 700,000 in-habitants . Friuli derives its name from the See also:Roman See also:town of See also:Forum Julii, or Forojulium, the See also:modern Cividale, which is said by See also:Paulus Diaconus to have been founded by See also:Julius See also:Caesar . In the 2nd See also:century B.C. the district was subjugated by the See also:Romans, and became See also:part of Gallia Transpadana . During the Roman See also:period, besides Forum Julii, its See also:principal towns were See also:Concordia, See also:Aquileia and Vedinium . On the See also:conquest of the country by the See also:Lombards during the 6th century it was made one of their See also:thirty-six duchies, the See also:capital being Forum Julii or, as they called it, Civitas Austriae . It is needless to repeat the See also:list of See also:dukes of the Lombard See also:line, from Gisulf (d . 611) to Hrothgaud, who See also:fell a victim to his opposition to See also:Charlemagne about 776; their names and exploits may be read in the Historia Langobardorum of Paulus Diaconus, and they were mainly occupied in struggles with the See also:Avars and other See also:barbarian peoples, and in resisting the pretensions of the Lombard See also:kings . The See also:discovery, however, of Gisulf's See also:grave at Cividale, in 1874, is an interesting See also:proof of the historian's authenticity . Charlemagne filled Hrothgaud's See also:place with one of his own followers, and the frontier position of Friuli gave the new line of See also:counts, dukes or margraves (for they are variously designated) the opportunity of acquiring importance by exploits against the Bulgarians, Slovenians and other hostile peoples to the east .
After the See also:death of Charlemagne Friuli shared in See also:general in the fortunes of See also:northern Italy
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In the 11th century the ducal rights over the greater part of Friuli were bestowed by the See also:emperor See also: |
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