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FRIULI (in the local dialect, Furlanei)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 237 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 .

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death of Charlemagne Friuli shared in See also:general in the fortunes of See also:northern Italy . In the 11th century the ducal rights over the greater part of Friuli were bestowed by the See also:emperor See also:Henry IV. on the See also:patriarch of Aquileia; but towards the See also:close of the 14th century the nobles called in the assistance of See also:Venice, which, after defeating the See also:archbishop, afforded a new See also:illustration pf See also:Aesop's well-known See also:fable, by securing See also:possession of the country for itself . The eastern part of Friuli was held by the counts of Gorz till 1500, when on the failure of their line it was appropriated by the See also:German See also:king, See also:Maximilian L, and remained in the possession of the See also:house of Austria until the See also:Napoleonic See also:wars . By the See also:peace of Campo Formio in 1797 the Venetian district also came to Austria, and on the formation of the Napoleonic See also:kingdom of Italy in 18o5 the See also:department of Passariano was made to include the whole of Venetian and part of Austrian Friuli, and in 1809 the See also:rest was added to the Illyrian provinces . The See also:title of See also:duke of Friuli was See also:borne by See also:Marshal See also:Duroc . In 1815 the whole country was recovered by the emperor of Austria, who himself assumed the ducal title and coat of arms; and it was not till 1866 that the Venetian portion was again ceded to Italy by the peace of See also:Prague . The capital of the country is Udine, and its arms are a crowned See also:eagle on a See also:field See also:azure . See Manzano, Annuli del Friuli (Udine, 1858–1879) ; and Campendio di See also:scoria friulana (Udine, 1876) ; Antonini, II Friuli orientale (See also:Milan, 1865); von Zahn, Friaulische Studien (See also:Vienna, 1878); Pirona, Vocabolario friulino (Venice, 1869) ; and L . Fracassetti, La Statistic¢ etnografica del Friuli (Udine, 1903) . (T .

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