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unusual facts about Friulian



1976 Friuli earthquake

The 1976 Friuli earthquake, also known in Italy as Terremoto del Friuli (Friulian earthquake), took place in the Friuli region in northeast Italy on Thursday, May 6, 1976.

Antonio Lasciac

Lasciac was born to father Peter Laščak and mother Jožefa Trampuš in Friulian fourth Podturn in Gorica 21st in September 1856.

Bovec

The Friulian and German names indicate that the names may be derived from *Plitium or *Pletium, which could possibly be connected with the oronym Phligadia mentioned by Strabo or the place name Phlygades.

Domini di Terraferma

In 1420 Venice annexed the Friulian territories of the Imperial Patriarchate of Aquileia from the Adriatic coast up to Pontebba in the Julian Alps.

Friulian language

In Friulian as in other Romance languages, nouns are either masculine or feminine (for example "il mûr" ("the wall", masculine), "la cjadree" ("the chair", feminine).

Iztok Mlakar

The language of most of Mlakar's songs are based on the distinctive dialects of these areas, which have been strongly influenced by Italian and Friulian, especially in vocabulary and syntax.

Kromberk

In the 19th century, a sizable Friulian minority lived in Kromberk, but have almost all been assimilated since.

Ladin

Rhaeto-Romance languages, a group of languages in the Alps comprising the Friulian, Ladin and Romansh languages

March of Friuli

In 828 the last Friulian duke, Baldric, was removed from office by Emperor Louis the Pious at the Imperial diet of Aachen, as he had not been able to defend the Pannonian frontier against the troops of Khan Omurtag of Bulgaria.

Pietro Zorutti

Much of his Friulian poetry was based around the middle class dialect of Udine, where he spent much of his life.

Resian dialect

In the 14th century, with the German and Friulian colonization of the Canale and Reccolana valleys, the connection of Resian with Carinthian dialects was interrupted.

Telefriuli

The television is also active in the promotion of Friulian language; it broadcasts a short newsbreak in Friulian, called Lis gnovis, and several other programs about language, music and traditions.


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