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Venezia Giulia

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Venezia Giulia (vānā`tsyä j`lyä), former region, 3,356 sq mi (8,692 sq km), NE Italy, on the Adriatic Sea. It was formed after World War I from part of the territories ceded by Austria to Italy in 1919, and included E Friuli, Trieste, Istria, and part of Carniola. Fiume was added in 1921. Except along the coast, the population is Slovenian, and after World War II most (c.2,890 sq mi/7,485 sq km) of Venezia Giulia was ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia. Most of Istria was joined with Croatia; part of Friuli and Carniola was combined with Slovenia and another portion (c.285 sq mi/740 sq km) formed the Free Territory of Trieste (divided in 1954 between Italy and Yugoslavia). The rest of Venezia Giulia (c.180 sq mi/470 sq km), part of Gorizia prov., remained Italian and was merged with Udine prov. to form the new region of Friuli–Venezia Giulia Friuli–Venezia Giulia , region (1991 pop. 1,197,666), 3,031 sq mi (7,850 sq km), NE Italy, bordering on Austria in the north and on Slovenia in the east. Trieste is the capital of the region, which is divided into Gorizia, Pordenone, Trieste, and Udine provs.
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Venezia Giulia
a former region of NE Italy at the N end of the Adriatic: divided between Yugoslavia and Italy after World War II; now divided between Italy and Slovenia


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The topics include a modeling approach supporting air spargeing system design, modeling water-solid interactions, contaminants in groundwater and the subsurface, preliminary studies for designing a wetland for arsenic treatment, the hydrogeology and geochemistry of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Plain alluvial aquifers in northeastern Italy, ground-penetrating radar in ground water studies, and the distribution and source of nitrogen compounds in the groundwater of Kuwait.
They were given until last March to find another and in Italy most plumped for Friulano, since the Tocai is grown in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
00 Hardcover Toronto Italian studies DR1350 After World War II, The Italian provinces of Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia were relegated to the Communist rule of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, who killed and forced the evacuation of thousands of Italians.
 
 
 
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