TERGESTE (mod.

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• TRIESTE (Ger. Triest; Slay. Trst; the Roman Tergeste, q.v.)

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

The

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

Caprini,

Trieste (Bergamo, 1906) . (T .