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2 unusual facts about Venezia Giulia


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.

Josef Maria Auchentaller

In 1903, he moved with his wife and children to Grado, Italy, seeking a better climate and financial stability.


16th Alpini Regiment

The main task of the regiment was the training of the recruits for the Alpini regiments based in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions of northern Italy.

2011 European Masters Games

The 2011 European Masters Games is the second edition of the multi-sport event for masters sport, scheduled to take place between 10–20 September 2011 in the areas of Lignano Sabbiadoro and Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy.

A.S.D. Sacilese Calcio

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Sacilese Calcio is an Italian association football club located in Sacile, Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

A.S.D. Unione Fincantieri Monfalcone

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Unione Fincantieri Monfalcone (usually referred to as Monfalcone or UFM Monfalcone) is an Italian association football club located in Monfalcone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Antonio Salamone

In 1970, the Court of Palermo ordered a five-year internal exile in Sacile in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-east Italy.

Arboreto Pascul

The Arboreto Pascul is an arboretum located near Pradandons, Tarcento, Province of Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.

CANT Z.511

The Z.511 had its first test flights at Monfalcone, Venezia Giulia (north-eastern Italy) between October 1940 and March 1942.

Dino Zoff

Dino Zoff was born in Mariano del Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, and was elected in a poll by the IFFHS as the third best goalkeeper of the 20th Century – after Lev Yashin (1st) and Gordon Banks (2nd).

Elio Bartolini

Elio Bartolini (1922, Conegliano, Veneto, Italy, - April 30, 2006, Santa Marizza di Varmo, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy) was an Italian writer, screenwriter and poet.

Giorgio Scerbanenco

As well as in Milan, the writer lived for a long period in Lignano Sabbiadoro, a town on the Adriatic Sea in Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Gottscheerish

Gottscheerish shares a lot of properties with the Bavarian dialects of the German language islands of the eastern Alps, among them Cimbrian in Veneto, Sappada (Pladen) and Timau (Tischelwang) in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and Sorica (Zarz) in Upper Carniola (Slovenia).

Igor Simčič

Simčič is, representing his work as aimed towards promotion of the United Europe, supported by the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the President of the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and by the Russian energy company Gazprom.

Nino Host Venturi

In 1927, at a conference that took place in Trieste, Host-Venturi with Bruno Coceani, Joseph Cobolli and other leaders from Venezia Giulia, outlined the guidelines for a complete Italianization to the "alloglot" minority in Friuli, Venezia Giulia and Zara.

Slovene language

The language is spoken by about 2.5 million people, mainly in Slovenia, but also by Slovene national minorities in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy (around 90,000 in Venetian Slovenia, Resia Valley, Canale Valley, Province of Trieste and in those municipalities of the Province of Gorizia bordering with Slovenia), in southern Carinthia and some parts of Styria in Austria (25,000).


see also

A.S.D. Pol. Tamai

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Polisportiva Tamai is an Italian association football club located in Tamai, a frazione of Brugnera, Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

A.S.D. Rivignano

Associazione Sportiva Dilettante Rivignano is an Italian association football club located in Rivignano, Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

A.S.D. Sanvitese

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Sanvitese is an Italian association football club located in San Vito al Tagliamento, Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

A.S.D. Torviscosa

Associazioen Sportiva Dilettantistica Torviscosa is an Italian association football club located in Torviscosa, Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Castellieri culture

Some hundred castellieri have been discovered in Istria, Friuli and Venezia Giulia, such as that of Leme, in the central-western Istria, of the Jelarji, near Muggia, of Monte Giove near Prosecco (Trieste) and San Polo, not far from Monfalcone.

Ronche

Ronche, in the Fontanafredda municipality in Pordenone province in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region

Slovenian Littoral

Incorporated into the Julian March (Venezia Giulia) a forced Italianization of the Slovene minority began, intensified after the Fascists under Benito Mussolini came to power in 1922, and lasted until 1943.

Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport

In 2007 the airport was renamed Friuli – Venezia Giulia "Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà" Airport, in honor of the 19th-century humanitarian explorer of Africa known in English as Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, namegiver of Brazzaville.