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12 unusual facts about Gorizia


59232 Sfiligoi

It is named after Vincenzo Sfiligoi, an Italian public accountant and amateur astronomer in Gorizia, Italy.

Barban

In the second half of the 13th century, having been depopulated by the plague in 1312, a small colony of Dalmatians from Finodol settled in the area, brought by the counts of Gorizia.

Ciril Kotnik

During this time, he established contacts with the political activist Janko Kralj, and Slovene emigrant from Gorizia, who also helped many anti-Nazis and Jews to escape persecution.

Dragan Todorić

He won a gold medal at cadet championship of Europe in Gorizia, Italy in 1971, playing alongside future legends Dragan Kićanović, Mirza Delibašić and Rajko Žižić.

Erwin Schrödinger

Between 1914 and 1918 he participated in war work as a commissioned officer in the Austrian fortress artillery (Gorizia, Duino, Sistiana, Prosecco, Vienna).

Guy Johnston

His cello is a rare 1820 instrument by Antonio Pellizon (or Pelizon) of Gorizia, which was bought for him anonymously.

La seconda ombra

The film treats of developments related to the activities of Franco Basaglia, director of psychiatric hospital in Gorizia and promoter of Law 180.

Liberalism in Slovenia

In Gorizia related groups formed the National Progressive Party in 1900

Lokve, Nova Gorica

It is a popular tourist center, serving as a summer resort for people from the towns of Nova Gorica and Gorizia (Italy).

Music of Friuli Venezia Giulia

Elsewhere in the region, the province of Gorizia has at least five spacious auditoriums and hosts a number of music events during the year, including the international Rudolfo Lipizer violin competition as well as various popular music festivals.

Paolo Bozzi

Paolo Bozzi, Italian psychologist and philosopher, composer and violin player, was born in Gorizia on 16 May 1930 and died in Bolzano in 2003.

St. Mark's Church, Vrba

An image of St Christopher and one of the Crucifixion date to the early 15th century and are in the style of the Gorizia school.


13387 Irus

13387 Irus (1998 YW6) is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on December 22, 1998 at the Astronomical Observatory of Farra d'Isonzo in Farra d'Isonzo, Gorizia, Italy.

2004 enlargement of the European Union

President Romano Prodi took part in celebrations on the Italian-Slovenian border at the divided town of Gorizia/Nova Gorica, at the German-Polish border, the EU flag was raised and Ode to Joy was sung and there was a laser show in Malta among the various other celebrations.

Breginj

Breginj was a comune of the Province of Gorizia (as Bergogna), except during the period between 1924 and 1927, when the Province of Gorizia was abolished and annexed to the Province of Udine during Italian rule (1918–1943, nominally lasting until 1947).

Gorizia Centrale railway station

Four years later, upon the opening of the Jesenice-Trieste railway (part of the network of railway lines known as the Transalpine Railway), the station took on the dual designation of Görz Südbahnhof/Gorizia Meridionale, to distinguish it from its counterpart on the new line, the Görz Staatsbahnhof/Gorizia stazione delle ferrovie dello stato (now the Nova Gorica railway station).

Johan Ernst van Nassau-Siegen

John Ernst of Nassau came with his 3,100 men, including his brother William and Joachim Ernst of Schleswig-Holstein, for Gradisca d'Isonzo, a small but powerful Hapsburg city in the county of Gorizia and Gradisca, on the River Isonzo.

Johann Baptist Coronini-Cronberg

Johann Baptist Coronini-Cronberg (November 16, 1794 – July 26, 1880) was an Austrian Feldzeugmeister born in Gorizia.

John Henry, Margrave of Moravia

Thus, after Henry of Gorizia-Tyrol had died in 1335, Emperor Louis IV gave Carinthia and southern Tyrol including the overlordship of Trent and Brixen to the Habsburg dukes, who themselves could refer to their mother Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol, sister of deceased Henry.

Josip Ferfolja

He attended high school in Gorizia, an important Slovene educational centre at the time; Ferfolja's school friends included historian Bogumil Vošnjak, economist Milko Brezigar, poet Alojz Gradnik, writer Ivan Pregelj, literary historian Avgust Žigon, and the prelate Luigi Fogar.

Leonhard of Gorizia

The Habsburgs (re-)united Lienz with the County of Tyrol and went on to rule as Counts in Gorizia (Gorizia and Gradisca from 1754).

Mariański Choir

Prizes were won at festivals in Międzyzdroje, Caecilianum (2000) and in Warsaw (2004), Loretto and Gorizia in Italy, Košice, Ilava, Mogilev, and in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin.

Nadina Abarth-Zerjav

Nadina Abarth-Žerjav (née Žerjav) (March 5, 1912, Görz (Gorizia) – September 17, 2000, Ljubljana) was the daughter of the Slovene politician and lawyer minister Gregor Žerjav and his wife, Milena née Lavrenčič.

Pellegrino II of Aquileia

As part of the price, at a conference in San Quirino at Cormons in 1202 the counts of Gorizia were given full independence of Aquileia.

Prosecco

The method of vinification, the true distinguishing feature of the original Prosecco, spread first in Gorizia, then - through Venice - in Dalmatia, Vicenza and Treviso.

Slovene dialects

#The Littoral dialect group (primorska narečna skupina), spoken in most of the Slovenian Littoral (except for the area around Tolmin and Cerkno, where Rovte dialects are spoken) and in the western part of Inner Carniola; it is also spoken by Slovenes in the Italian provinces of Trieste and Gorizia, and in the mountainous areas of eastern Friuli (Venetian Slovenia and Resia).

Titular Archbishop of Aquileia

In 1751 with the 6 July bull Injunctio Nobis, the Pope Benedict XIV divided the patriarchate into two archdioceses; one at Udine, with Venetian Friuli for its territory, the other at Gorizia, with jurisdiction over Austrian Friuli.

Treaty of Zadar

In the 1350s the Hungarian monarch, Louis I, was able to assemble a force of 50,000 men by joining his forces with reinforcements sent by the Duke of Austria, the Counts of Gorizia, the Lord of Padua, Francesco I da Carrara, and the Patriarchate of Aquileia, a state within the Holy Roman Empire.