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GRADISCA

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 311 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRADISCA  , a

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town of
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Austria, in the
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province of
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Gorz and Gradisca, ro m . S.W. of Gorz by
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rail . Pop . (1900) 3843, mostly Italians . It is situated on the right
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bank of the Isonzo and was formerly a strongly fortified
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place . Its
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principal
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industry is
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silk
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spinning . Gradisca originally formed
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part of the margraviate of
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Friuli, came under the patriarchate of
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Aquileia in 1028, and in r420 to
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Venice . Between 1471 and 1481 Gradisca was fortified by the Venetians, but in 1511 they surrendered it to the
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emperor
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Maximilian I . In 1647 Gradisca and its territory, including Aquileia and
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forty-three smaller places, were erected into a
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separate countship in favour of Johann Anton von
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Eggenberg,
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duke of
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Krumau . On the extinction of his
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line in 1717, it reverted to Austria, and was completely incorporated with Gorz in 1754 . The name was revived by the constitution of 1861, which established the crownland of Gorz and Gradisca .

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