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ROVIGNO
, a seaport of See also:Austria, in See also:Istria, 75 M
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S. of See also:Trieste by See also:rail
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Pop
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(1900) 10,205, mostly See also:Italian
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It is situated on the See also:west See also:coast of Istria, and possesses an interesting See also:cathedral, built on the See also:summit of the promontory See also:Monte di Sant' Eufemia
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Its campanile, built after the See also:model of the famous campanile in See also:Venice, is crowned with a See also:bronze statue of St Eufemia, the See also:patron See also:saint of the See also:town, whose remains are preserved in the See also: Rovigno is the See also:ancient Arupenum or Rubinum, and according to tradition it was originally built on an See also:island, Cissa by name, which disappeared during the See also:earth-quakes about 737 . Rovigno passed definitively into the hands of the Venetians in 1330, and it remained true to the See also:republic till the treaty of Campo Formio (1797) . |
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