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TERGESTE (mod. Trieste, q.v.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 641 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TERGESTE (mod. See also:Trieste, q.v.)  , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Istria, 26 m. by road E.S.E. of See also:Aquileia, at the See also:northern extremity of the See also:peninsula of Istria, in a See also:bay at the See also:head of the Adriatic See also:Sea . Its importance was in ancient See also:clays, as now, mainly due to its See also:commerce as the outlet of See also:Pannonia and See also:Dalmatia . It is first mentioned about See also:loo B.C. as a See also:village . In 52 B.C. it was attacked by See also:barbarian tribes from the interior . In 33 B.C . See also:Augustus during his Dalmatian See also:wars built a See also:wall and towers there, as an inscription records; in a See also:medieval copy of it the See also:emperor See also:Frederick III. mentions his own restoration of the city walls for the See also:fourth See also:time in 1470 . At this time it probably became a See also:colony, as it certainly was in See also:Pliny's days . It appears to have had an extensive territory assigned to it . The loftily situated See also:cathedral of S . Giusto occupies the site of a See also:Roman See also:temple, some of the walls and columns of which may be seen in the See also:tower Into the See also:facade are built fragments of sepulchral reliefs . The See also:church itself has a curious See also:plan which is due to its having been formed out of two distinct churches See also:standing See also:side by side, which were See also:united in the 14th See also:century . Each of these is a See also:basilica with ancient columns and mosaics in the See also:apse .

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southern church, S . Giusto, has a central See also:dome . The so-called Arco di Riccardo is a See also:half-buried Roman See also:arch with Corinthian pilasters, possibly a triumphal arch, possibly connected with an See also:aqueduct . The museum contains See also:inscriptions, See also:mosaic pavements, &c., from the ancient See also:town, of which no remains beyond those mentioned now exist above ground . See Th . See also:Mommsen in Corp. inscr . Latin . V . (1883), p . 53 sqq.; T . G . See also:Jackson, Dalmatia, Istria and the Quarnero (See also:Oxford, 1887), III., 343; G .

Caprini, See also:

Trieste (See also:Bergamo, 1906) . (T .

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