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TRIESTE (Ger. Triest; Slay. Trst; the See also:Roman See also:Tergeste, q.v.)  , the See also:principal seaport of See also:Austria . 367 m . S.W. of See also:Vienna by See also:rail . Pop . (1900), 132,879, of which three-fourths are Italians, the See also:remainder being composed of Germans, See also:Jews, Greeks, See also:English and See also:French . See also:Trieste is situated at the See also:north-See also:east See also:angle of the Adriatic See also:Sea, on the Gulf of Trieste, and is picturesquely built on terraces at the See also:foot of the See also:Karst hills . The aspect of the See also:town is See also:Italian rather than See also:German . It is divided into the old and the new town, which are connected by the broad and handsome Via del Corso, the busiest See also:street in the town . The old town, nestling See also:round the Schlossberg, the See also:hill on which the See also:castle stands, consists of narrow, steep and irregular streets . The castle, built in 1680, is believed to occupy the site of the See also:Roman capitol . The new town, which lies on the See also:flat expanse adjoining the See also:crescent-shaped See also:bay, partly on ground that has been reclaimed from the sea, has large and regularly built streets, and several large squares adorned with See also:artistic monuments . The See also:cathedral of See also:San Giusto was formed as it now stands by the See also:union in the 14th See also:century of three adjacent See also:early See also:Christian buildings of the 6th century; the See also:tower incorporates portions of a Roman See also:temple .

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church of See also:Santa Maria See also:Maggiore, built in 1627–1682, is a characteristic specimen of Jesuit See also:architecture; the church of Sant' See also:Antonio Nuovo, built in 1827–1849, is in the See also:Greek See also:style, as also • the Greek Orthodox church, built in 1782, which is one of the handsomest See also:Byzantine structures in the whole of Austria . Among the most prominent See also:secular buildings are: the Tergesteo, a huge edifice containing a cruciform See also:arcade roofed with See also:glass, where the See also:exchange is established, besides numerous shops and offices; the town-See also:hall, rebuilt in 1874, with the handsome hall of the See also:local See also:Diet; the imposing old exchange, now the seat of the chamber of See also:commerce; the palatial offices of the See also:Austrian See also:Lloyd, the principal See also:shipping See also:company; the commercial and nautical See also:academy, with its natural See also:history museum, containing the See also:complete See also:fauna of the Adriatic Sea; and finally the municipal museum, Revoltella, are all See also:worth mentioning . The Museo Lapidario contains a collection of Roman antiquities found in or near the town . It is an open-See also:air museum, installed in a disused See also:burial-ground, and is situated near the castle . The Arco di Riccardo, which derives its name from a popular delusion that it was connected with See also:Richard Coeur-de-See also:Lion, is believed by some to be a Roman triumphal See also:arch, but is probably an arch of a Roman See also:aqueduct . At the See also:head of the See also:industrial establishments of Trieste stand the two See also:ship-See also:building yards of the Austrian Lloyd and of the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, which are the largest of their See also:kind in Austria . The Stabilimento Tecnico is also fitted up for the construction of See also:war-See also:ships . They are equipped with all the latest technical innovations, and employ over 5000 workmen . See also:Petroleum refineries, See also:iron-foundries, chemicals, See also:soap-boiling, See also:silk-See also:spinning and the See also:production of ships' fittings, as marine See also:steam boilers, anchors, chains, cables, are the other principal branches of See also:industry . Several See also:marble quarries are worked in the neighbourhood, and there are some large See also:cement factories . See also:Good See also:wine, See also:fruit and See also:olive oil are the most important natural products of the See also:country round Trieste . The See also:great importance of Trieste lies in its See also:trade .

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port of Austria, and the principal outlet for the over-sea trade of the See also:monarchy . It may be said nearly to monopolize the trade of the Adriatic, and has See also:long eclipsed its See also:ancient See also:rival See also:Venice . It owes its development to its See also:geographical situation in the north-east angle of the Adriatic Sea at the end of the deeply indented gulf, and to its See also:harbour, which was more accessible to large vessels than that of Venice . Besides, it was declared a See also:free imperial port in 1719, and was therefore released from the obstructions to trade contained in the hampering legislation of the See also:period . It was deprived of this See also:privilege in 1891, when only the harbour was declared to be outside the customs limit . But during the last See also:thirty years of the 19th century the increase in its trade was the lowest in comparison with the increase in the other great See also:European ports . This was due in the first See also:place to the lack of adequate railway communication with the interior of Austria, to the loss of See also:part of the See also:Levant trade through the development of the See also:Oriental railway See also:system, to the diversion of See also:traffic towards the Italian and German ports, and finally to the growing rivalry of the neighbouring port of See also:Fiume, whose interests were vigorously promoted by the Hungarian See also:government . But in the loth century a more active policy was inaugurated . New and See also:direct services were started to East See also:Africa, Central See also:America and See also:Mexico; the service to See also:India and the Far East, as well as that to the Mediterranean ports, was much improved; and lastly, Trieste was made the centre of the large See also:emigration from Austria to America by the inauguration (See also:June 1904) of a direct emigrant service to New See also:York . But the most important measure, designed to give a great impetus to the trade of Trieste, and to the over-sea trade of Austria generally, was the construction of the so-called second railway connexion with Trieste, begun in 1901 . This measure provided for the construction of a railway over the Tauern Mountains between Schwarzach in See also:Salzburg and Mollbrucken in See also:Carinthia; and of a railway over the Karawanken between Trieste and See also:Klagenfurt, with a See also:branch to See also:Villach . The See also:total length of both lines is See also:loo m .

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The Karawanken railway, a direct connexion with Bohemia and the See also:

northern industrial provinces of Austria, is calculated to counteract the See also:gravitation of traffic towards the German ports; while the Tauern railway constitutes the shortest route to the interior of Austria and to the See also:south of See also:Germany . By the new See also:line the distance between Salzburg, for instance, and Trieste, is lessened by 16o in . In See also:order to accommodate the increase in traffic resulting from the above improvements, important See also:works for the See also:extension and development of the harbour were undertaken, and part of them were completed in 1910 . The capacious harbour, consisting of two parts, the old and the new, is protected by extensive moles and breakwaters . The new harbour was constructed in 1867–1883, at a cost of £I,5oo,000 . The new additions to the harbour, which aresituated at the south end, were designed to give more than See also:double the receiving capacity of the port, and were estimated to cost f3,625,000 . The bulk of the over-sea trade of Trieste is done with the Levant, See also:Egypt, India and the Far East, See also:Italy, Great See also:Britain and North and South America . Its most important trade by See also:land, besides Austria, is done with Germany, Trieste being the See also:entrepot for Germany's commerce with India and the Mediterranean countries . The principal articles imported are See also:cotton and cotton goods, See also:coffee-, See also:coal, cereals, hides, fruit and See also:tobacco; the principal articles exported are See also:wool and woollen goods; See also:sugar, See also:paper, See also:timber, machinery and various manufactured goods . About 4 M. north-See also:west of Trieste on the very edge of the sea is the famous castle of Miramar, built in 1854–1856 in the See also:Norman style, for the See also:archduke See also:Maximilian, the See also:ill-fated See also:emperor of Mexico . It belongs now to the emperor of Austria, and its beautiful gardens are open to the public . About 4 M. north-east of Trieste is the See also:village of Opcina, which possesses an See also:obelisk 1146 ft. high, from which a beautiful view is obtained .

The town of Trieste, with its adjoining territory of a total See also:

area of 36 sq. m., forms a See also:separate Austrian See also:crown land . It had in 19oo a See also:population of 178,672, of which 77 % were Italians, 18% See also:Slovenes and 5% Germans . The municipal See also:council of Trieste constitutes at the same See also:time' the local Diet of the crown land, and is composed of 54 members . To the Reichsrat Tmieste sends five deputies . Trieste is the seat of a Roman See also:Catholic See also:bishop, and the seat of the See also:administration for the See also:Kustenland or littoral, composed of the crown lands of Trieste, See also:Gorz and See also:Gradisca, and See also:Istria . History.—At the time of the See also:foundation of See also:Aquileia by the See also:Romans, the See also:district which now includes Trieste was occupied by See also:Celtic and Illyrian tribes; and the Roman See also:colony of See also:Tergeste (q.v.) does not seem to have been established till the reign of See also:Vespasian . After the break-up of the Roman dominion Trieste shared the See also:general fortunes of Istria and passed through various hands . From the emperor See also:Lothair it received an See also:independent existence under its See also:count-bishops, and it 'maintained this position down to its See also:capture by Venice in 1203 . For the next 18o years its history consists chiefly of a See also:series of conflicts with this See also:city, which were finally put an end to by Trieste placing itself in 1382 under the See also:protection of See also:Leopold III. of Austria . The overlordship thus established insensibly See also:developed into actual See also:possession; and except in the See also:Napoleonic period (1797-1805 and 1809–1813) Trieste has since remained an integral part of the Austrian dominions . It was an imperial free port from 1719 until 1891 . The harbour was blockaded by an Italian See also:fleet from May until See also:August 1848 .

During the Italian and Hungarian revolutions Trieste remained faithful to Austria, and received the See also:

title of See also:Cilia Fedelissima . In 1867 Trieste and the adjoining territory was constituted into a separate crown land . In 1888 a See also:monument was erected in See also:commemoration of the 5ooth anniversary of the connexion of the town with Austria . Giulio Caprin, Trieste (See also:Bergamo, 1906) ; Mainati's Croniche ossia memorie See also:star.- sacra- profane di Trieste (7 vols., Venice, 1817–'818); Lowenthal, Gesch. der Stadt Triest (Trieste, 1857) ; Della Croce, Storia di Trieste (ibid., 1879) ; Scussa . Storia cronografica di Trieste (ibid., new ed., 1885–1886) ; See also:Neumann-Spallart, Osterreichs maritime Entwicklung and See also:die Hebung von Triest (See also:Stuttgart, 1882); Die osterreich-ungarische Monarchie: Das Kustenland (Vienna, 1891); See also:Montanelli, Il Movimento storico dellts popolazione di Trieste (1905); Hartleben, Fuhrer durch Triest and Umgebung (5th ed .. Vienna, 1905) .

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