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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 638 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIRANO  , a seaport of

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Austria, in
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Istria, 22 M . S.W. of
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Trieste by
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rail . Pop . (1900), 13,339, mostly Italians . In addition to viticulture and the cultivation of the
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olive, its
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principal resources are
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ship-
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building and fishing . In the neighbourhood are the most extensive
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works in Istria for the extraction of
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salt from the
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sea-
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water, which produce about 5o,000 tons of salt annually . Pirano is celebrated for the victory of the Venetians over the
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fleet of the
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emperor
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Frederick
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Barbarossa in 1177 . It passed under the domination of
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Venice in 1283 and became definitely incorporated with Austria, together with the other possessions of Venice in the Istrian
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Peninsula, in 1813 .

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