The site of the battle, Tharsatica or Tarsatica in Latin, has been traditionally identified as Trsat, a hill fort whose ruins today overlook the city of Rijeka (Fiume).
It was opened in 1873, and is also a border station for trains to Rijeka, Croatia.
The city is difficult to get to by air; there is Rijeka Airport, city's own international airport, but the airport is located on the nearby island of Krk with the tolled Krk Bridge in between.
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A lot of major civic buildings went up during this time, including the Governor's Palace, designed by the Hungarian architect Alajos Hauszmann.
Supertalent has five big auditions in the Croatian cities of Split, Rijeka, Zadar, Zagreb, and Osijek.
In the 1998–99 season, he was the sharing the place of the scoring leder of the Croatian First Football League with his teammate from Rijeka, Igor Musa, both scoring 14 goals.
was director of opera at the Croatian National Theatre, conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radio, director of opera in Rijeka, and conducted opera in Sarajevo, Zagreb and Split.
He wrote songs for Oliver Dragojević, Ivan Mikulić, Tony Cetinski, Danijela, Vanna, Jacques Houdek, and for his wife Ivana Plechinger with whom he wrote hit songs such as To nismo mi and Kao rijeka which scored second on Dora in 2000.
There are eight Croatian language universities in the world: the universities of Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Osijek, Zadar, Dubrovnik, Pula, and Mostar.
One of his most known works includes early romanic poem Grobnik field (near Rijeka) written in 1842 for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grobnik field where according to legend Croats defeated the invading Tatars.
The Rab concentration camp witnesses and atrocities in the Croatian village of Podhum near Rijeka are shown.
In 1864 Rijeka the future mayor Giovanni de Ciotta introduced Luppis to the British machine engineer Robert Whitehead, manager of the local factory 'Stabilimento Tecnico Fiumano', with whom he signed a contract to develop the 'salvacoste' further.
There is a plaque dedicated to him in the town of Volosko where he died (between Rijeka and Opatija in present-day Croatia).
The uniqueness in contrast to other Croatian electric locomotives is that it uses the 3 kV DC system, and is only deployed on the Šapjane-Rijeka-Moravice Line.
Nugent died on 22 August 1862 in the Bosiljevo Castle, near Karlovac, and his body was later transferred to a sarcophagus in the Doric temple "Peace for the Hero", in Trsat above Rijeka, next to the sarcophagus of his wife.
His goals helped Rijeka to reach their first ever Europa League group stage where they were drawn in Group I together with Olympique Lyonnais, Real Betis and Vitória S.C..
The Hungarian government made a contract with the English-owned Cunard Steamship Company for a direct passenger line from Rijeka to New York.
The municipality is of great transportation importance because of the major railway and highway networks connecting Rijeka with Ljubljana and Trieste to the west, Zagreb and Split to the east and Pula to the south through the Učka tunnel.
In the European competitions from 1978 to 1984 Rijeka was indefeated on her own stadium Kantrida Wrexham F.C. 3–0, K.S.K. Beveren 0–0, K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot 2–1, FC Lokomotíva Košice 3–0, Juventus F.C. 0–0, Real Valladolid 4–1, Real Madrid C.F. 3-1.
During his academic career he taught at the Law Faculty in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Mostar and Rijeka.
At the time when Benito Mussolini was willing to modify the Treaty of Rapallo, which cut off a quarter of Slovene ethnic territory from the remaining three-quarters of Slovenes living in the Kingdom of SHS, in order to annex the independent state of Rijeka to Italy, Pašić's attempts to correct the borders at Postojna and Idrija were also undermined by regent Alexander preferring "good relations" with Italy.
Notable players who appeared for Pazinka during this spell included Dado Pršo (later with AS Monaco and Rangers), Zoran Škerjanc (formerly of Dinamo Zagreb and Recreativo Huelva) and Damir Desnica (one of the very few deaf professional footballers, formerly with Rijeka and Kortrijk).
Olga Sober (Šober) (born in Sarajevo) is an opera singer and leading soprano in the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka.
Following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, Rijeka gained greater importance as the sole Hungarian seaport, and in the second half of the 19th century a new artificial harbor was completed, as well as railway lines to Budapest via Zagreb and to Pivka in present-day Slovenia, where the railway joined the Austrian Southern Railway connecting Vienna and Trieste.
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During World War II, Rijeka was targeted by around 30 Allied bombing raids, and in 1945 the retreating Germans damaged approximately 90% of the port facilities.
Primorska banka d.d. Rijeka is a regional commercial bank that operates in the city of Rijeka and the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Istria County and Lika-Senj County.
It is also 20 kilometers far from Krk Bridge; 19.1 km from the main city of the island, Krk; 13.6 km from Vrbnik, another settlement on Krk; and 47.7 km from Rijeka, which is the most important Croatian harbor and the third largest city in the country.
Rujevica Stadium (official name: "Stadion Rujevica", English: "Rujevica Stadium") is a stadium that was planned to be built in the city of Rijeka.
These toponyms include Bila Rika, Siča Rika, Biluša, and others, which are today known as Bela Reka or Bijela Rijeka, Seča Reka, and Bjeluša (either Ijekavian accent or Ekavized during the 19th and 20th centuries).
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These include Bela Reka, Kriva Reka, Seništa and others, which can often be heard as Bijela Rijeka, Kriva Rijeka, Sjeništa etc. in conversation among the locals.
Čmilytė has also enjoyed considerable success at the Women's European Individual Chess Championship, where she captured silver medals in 2003 (Istanbul), 2008 (Plovdiv), and 2010 (Rijeka).
From 1940 he participated at many national and international exhibitions: the Venice Biennial (1950, 1956, 1964), the Mediterranean Biennial in Alexandria (1956, 1969), the Milan Triennale (1957), Documenta in Kassel (1959), the Rijeka Salon (1959, 1961).