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20 unusual facts about Trieste


Alberto Conti

During the following two years, he worked on the largest sample (at the time) of optical rotation curves of galaxies at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), in Trieste.

He received his laurea degree in physics from the University of Trieste, Italy, with a thesis titled “Binary Galaxies in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) Redshift Survey.”

Arturo Falaschi

He was very articulate and convinced several governments in the developed and the developing world to establish a 2-component International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, with one component in New Delhi, India and one in Trieste, Italy; both devoted to research and training of young researchers from the developing world.

He was coordinator of the Graduate School of Molecular Genetics, International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste (1988 to 2001) and Professor of Molecular Biology, Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Pisa, Italy from 2004 to his last breath.

Carlos Reyes-Manzo

In October 2006 he participated in Sidaja International Festival of Poetry in Trieste.

Dennis Embleton

They journeyed to Paris, Strasbourg, Baden, Switzerland, over the Simplon Pass, Milan, Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Trieste, Vienna, The Tyrol and back to Paris, All the time, in addition to seeing the sights, they visited numerous medical establishments, and at Pisa they petitioned the university, sat the examination for doctorate of medicine, passed and were granted diplomas on 14 September 1836

Geoffrey Hull

Of English and Scots ancestry on his father's side, his maternal family belonged to the Latin community of Egypt (of mixed Maltese, Venetian, Triestine and French descent) which left that country during the post-war period of nationalization (1946–1957).

Giorgi Dvali

Before joining the NYU faculty in 1998, he worked at two renowned international research centers: the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and later at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

At 17 he was awarded a scholarship from the United World College of the Adriatic in Duino, Trieste, Italy and later studied theatre at the London Studio Centre.

Lungotevere Guglielmo Oberdan

The Lungotevere is dedicated to the patriot irredentist Guglielmo Oberdan from Trieste, who deserted the Austrian army and was hanged after his attempt to murder Franz Joseph I of Austria.

Marco Frigatti

As a student Frigatti studied languages at the Advanced School of Modern Languages in Trieste.

Marisa Lang

Lang was born in Trieste, Italy and lived there for brief periods during her youth but spent the majority of her life in Toronto, Canada.

Paul van Herck

The novel won the first prize at the European Science Fiction Convention in the Italian city Trieste.

Seisho Maru

In 1924, she was purchased by the Tripcovich Shipping Company of Trieste and sailed under the Italian flag as Antonio Tripcovich.

Sergey Antonov

In 2008, he inaugurated, together with pianist Constantine Finehouse, the Trieste Chamber Music Association's Salotto Cameristico to great acclaim.

Tiscali

Between 2007 and 2008, Tiscali briefly operated an IPTV service in Italy (available in the cities of Bologna, Cagliari, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Turin and Trieste).

Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano

From 1999 to 2002 he held the post of Managing Director of the multiutility ACEGAS SpA in Trieste, and managed the process of privatization of that company, up through its placement on the stock market.

Vincenzo Vinciguerra

A group of Carabinieri had accidentally discovered on February 24, 1972, an arms dump near Trieste, containing arms, munitions and C4 identical to the one used in Peteano the same year.

Washington Place

An American merchant sea captain, John Dominis (1796–1846) came to America in 1819 from Trieste, probably from a Croatian family.

Zef Mustafa

It was only later, he insisted, that he found out that he'd actually been born in a refugee camp in Trieste, Italy.


Air Dolomiti

It started airline operations in January 1991 with a Trieste-Genoa route and in 1992 started international services with flights from Verona to Munich.

Alexandros Vasileiou

Because of his trading businesses he lived in several cities throughout Europe: Amsterdam, Marseille, Lyon, Paris, Vienna, Trieste.

Armadio della vergogna

The actions described in the records spanned several years and took place in various areas of the country, from the southern city of Acerra to the northern province of Trieste and as far east as the Balkans; it remains unclear, to this day, how the archive remained concealed for so long, and who gave the order to hide the files in the immediate post-war period.

Bezovica, Vojnik

Similar names based on the same root are common in Slovenian ethnic territory (e.g., Basovizza in Italy and Bezgovica) as well as in other Slavic areas (e.g., Bazje in Croatia, Bzová in the Czech Republic, etc.

Carl Ferdinand Cori

He was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and served in the ski corps, and later was transferred to the sanitary corps, for which he set up a laboratory in Trieste.

Cheikh Tidiane Gaye

His poems won prizes in poetry competition Sulle orme di Ada Negri in Lodi and he received a special mention at the IX International Contest di Trieste Scritture di Frontiera, the Literary Award dedicated to Umberto Saba.

Dejan Bogdanović

Since living in Italy he has divided his time between his concert activities, playing in the great halls of Italy and Europe, and teaching; In fact he has held numerous courses in Bolzano, Siracusa, Padova, Portogruaro, Trieste, Salerno, Pesaro, Chioggia, Bergamo and his pupils are the prize winners of many important violin and orchestral manifestations and competitions.

Druid

Opera provides a barometer of well-informed popular European culture in the early 19th century: in 1817 Giovanni Pacini brought druids to the stage in Trieste with an opera to a libretto by Felice Romani about a druid priestess, La Sacerdotessa d'Irminsul ("The Priestess of Irminsul").

Free Territory of Trieste municipal election, 1949

Municipal elections were held in the six municipalities of the Anglo-American occupation zone ('Zone A') of the Free Territory of Trieste in June 1949, Trieste, Duino-Aurisina, San Dorligo della Valle, Sgonico, Monrupino and Muggia.

Giuseppe Agujari

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, he later enrolled at the Municipal Technical School of Trieste, where his brother Tito Agujari was his tutor.

Giuseppe Barison

Returning to Trieste in 1876, the next year he participated at the Esposizione di Belle Arti, with a canvas depicting Isabella Orsini and her Page, which gains him a two-year stipend from the city to study in Rome.

Goito Mechanized Brigade

The remaining units were distributed among other brigades: the 4th Tank Battalion and 18th Bersaglieri Battalion joined the Legnano Mechanized Brigade, while the 10th Bersaglieri Battalion had already moved to Bologna and joined the Trieste Mechanized Brigade on 1 March 1991.

Gottfried Schenker

In rapid succession, Gottfried Schenker founded branches in Budapest, Trieste, Prague, Belgrade, Sofia, Salonika, and Constantinople.

History of Rijeka

In fact already in 1776, when it was decreed to include Fiume to Hungary through Croatia, it was the count József Majláth, acting as Hungarian royal commissar, who took over the town from baron Pasquale Ricci, the representative of the Intendancy from Trieste.

Illy

From 2004 to 2012, illycaffè funded the Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize to give recognition to science researchers from the developing world, in collaboration with TWAS.

Imperial Free City of Trieste

The modern Austro-Hungarian Navy used Trieste's shipbuilding facilities for construction and as a base.

James Fitzjames

Fitzjames served detached duty on a cutter, the Hind, sailing twice to Constantinople, and on HMS Madagascar, during which time the Madagascar conveyed Otto of Greece from Trieste to Nauplia where Otto was crowned King of Greece.

Josef Breu

Josef Breu (Trieste, 6 January 1914 – Vienna, 26 April 1998) was an Austrian geographer and cartographer and for several years Chair of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN).

Kaikō

On 23 January 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first men to descend to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Trieste bathyscaphe.

Kurt Bolender

Therefore, Bolender instead returned to the operation at the SS labor camp at Dorohucza and subsequently to Trieste in Italy.

Ladislav Mucina

He completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and later served as visiting fellow and professor in Trieste, Camerino, Perugia, and Rome, all in Italy, Uppsala in Sweden, Brno in the Czech Republic, Perth in Australia and Pretoria and Stellenbosch, both in South Africa.

Mihai Gavrilă

He studied also a visiting scholar at several major physics centers around the world: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR (at Dubna in Russia), Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, JILA (Boulder, Colorado, USA), International Centre for Theoretical Physics, ICTP (Trieste in Italy), and the University of Pittsburgh, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA).

Pan-Slavism

In Austria-Hungary Southern Slavs were distributed among several entities: Slovenes in the Austrian part (Carniola, Styria, Carinthia, Gorizia and Gradisca, Trieste, Istria (also Croats)), Croats and Serbs in the Hungarian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and in the Austrian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Dalmatia, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, under direct control from Vienna.

Paper-and-pencil game

Andrea Angiolino, Battaglia navale e altri giochi con carta e matita, Editoriale Scienza: Trieste, 2008

Rainer Maria Rilke

Between October 1911 and May 1912, Rilke stayed at the Castle Duino, near Trieste, home of Princess Marie of Thurn und Taxis.

Reichenau an der Rax

From 1854 on the development of the area was decisively promoted by the opening of the Semmering railway line with a train station in neighbouring Payerbach, part of the Austrian Southern Railway (Südbahn) from the Vienna Südbahnhof to Trieste.

Roberto Car

He was in 1973/74 a postdoc at the University of Milan, from 1977 to 1981 an assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, from 1981 to 1983 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, from 1984 to 1990 associate professor for physics at SISSA in Trieste (in 1990/91 as full professor) and from 1991 to 1999 professor for physics at the University of Geneva (and director of the IRRMA of the ETH Lausanne).

Russian Post

The agreement, which was signed along with their technology supplier Selex, was sealed at a trade summit in Trieste during an official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin, following up earlier agreements between the three companies.

Saint Spyridon Church, Trieste

History of the Orthodox community in Trieste begins in 1751 when Empress Maria Theresa allow free practice of religion for Orthodox Christians what prompted immigration of Serbian traders from Herceg Novi, Trebinje and Sarajevo to Trieste.

Sandro Bolchi

Born in Voghera, Bolchi, who was graduated in literature, made his debut as an actor in the "Guf" theater in Trieste, an experience that continued even after he moved to Bologna, where he also began his activity as journalist and stage director.

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).

SMS Viribus Unitis

On 30 June, two days after Ferdinand and his wife were killed by Gavrilo Princip in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, Viribus Unitis transported their bodies back to Trieste.

Treviso Centrale railway station

The main destinations are Calalzo, Venezia, Trieste, Udine, Vicenza, Portogruaro and Milano.

Venezuela national baseball team

Italy (Bollate, Bologna, Codogno, Florence, Macerata, Milano, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, San Marino, Torino, Trieste, Verona & Vicenza) and Netherlands (Rotterdam, Haarlem & Amsterdam) serve as hosts of the sixteen teams of the second round (September 14–20), and therefore receive first round byes.

Westminster College Gymnasium

Westminster College Gymnasium in Fulton, Missouri was the site of Winston Churchill's March 5, 1946 "Sinews of Peace" speech, in which he stated that "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." The speech at Westminster College focused on the United Nations, nuclear proliferation and Soviet expansion.

Wurzen Pass

The Wurzenpass has been a historic crossing of the Karawanken, though the main trade route from the Duchy of Carinthia to Trieste, the Austrian Littoral and Carniola ran from Tarvisio along the Predil Pass and the high valley of Rateče that was much easier to traverse.