What do you think about the France Italy game coming up?

<h3>What do you think about the France Italy game coming up?</h3>

After a disappointing loss to Hungary. Italy faces France. What do you think about this game. Who wins, and what is the final score?


<strong>Italy best answer:</strong>
<p><i>Answer by ericcartman loves ecuador&inter2</i><br/>italy wins 3-1 toni hat trick</p>
<p><strong>Trieste: a long story toward Italy</strong>
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<i>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39351850@N00/1263978037">Chiara Marra</a></i>
Trieste,Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy)

On this beautiful sun set that come every late afternoon on the main square of the city with its port, let's go to add some important historical information by Trieste since the modern age.

Trieste had grown into an important port and trade hub. It was constituted a free port by Emperor Charles VI and remained a free port from 1719 until July 1, 1891. The reign of his successor, Maria Theresa of Austria, marked for Trieste in particular the beginning of a flourishing era.

The city was occupied by French troops three times during the Napoleonic Wars, in 1797, 1805 and 1809. In the latter occasion it was annexed to the Illyrian Provinces by Napoleon. In this period Trieste lost its autonomy (even when it was returned to the Austrian Empire in 1813), and status of free port was interrupted.

Following the Napoleonic Wars, Trieste continued to prosper as the Imperial Free City of Trieste (Reichsunmittelbare Stadt Triest) and it became capital of the Austrian Littoral region, the so-called Küstenland. Its role as the principal Austrian commercial port and shipbuilding center was later emphasized by the Foundation of the Austrian Lloyd in 1836 and the construction of the Vienna-Trieste Austrian Southern Railway, completed in 1857.

ANNEXATION TO ITALY

In the beginning of the 20th century, Trieste was a buzzing cosmopolitan city frequented by artists such as James Joyce, Italo Svevo and Umberto Saba. The city was part of the so-called Austrian Riviera and a very real part of Mitteleuropa. The particular Friulian dialect, called Tergestino, spoken until the beginning of the 19th century, had been gradually supplanted by Triestine (i.e., a Venetian dialect) and other tongues, including Italian, German and Slovenian. While Triestine was the language of the major part of the population, German was the language of the Austrian bureaucracy and Slovenian was the language of the surrounding villages. Viennese architecture and coffeehouses still dominate the streets of Trieste today.

Together with Trento, Trieste was the main seat of the irredendist movement, which aimed to the annexion to Italy of all the lands historically inhabited by culturally Italian people. After World War I ended and Austria-Hungary disintegrated, Trieste was transferred to Italy (1920) along with the whole Julian March (Venezia Giulia). The annexation, however, brought a loss of importance for the city, with the new border depriving it of a true hinterland. The Slovenian ethnic group ( at the time about the 25% of the population) was also suppressed by the Fascist Regime. This led to a period of inner strain which culminated on April 13, 1920, when a group of Italian nationalists burnt the Narodni dom (National House), the cultural centre of Trieste's Slovenians.

SECOND WORLD WAR

After the constitution of the Italian Social Republic, on September 23, 1943, Trieste was nominally absorbed into this entity. The Germans, however, annexed it to an Adriatic Littoral Operation Zone, which included also Gorizia and Ljubljana and was led by Austrian Friedrich Rainer. Under the Nazi occupation, the sole extermination camp on Italian soil was constructed near Trieste, at the Risiera di San Sabba (Rižarna), on April 4, 1944. The city also suffered from the partisan activity and from Allied bombardments.

YUGOSLAV AND NEW ZEALAND INVOLVMENT

On April 30, 1945, the Italian anti-fascist Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (CLN) of don Marzari and Fonda Savio, with 3500 volunteers, incited a revolt against the Nazis. On May 1, Yugoslav partisans of Tito's army arrived and liberated most of Trieste from the Nazis. The 2nd New Zealand Division continued its advance along Route 14 around the north coast of the Adriatic to Trieste and arrived at the city on the next day. The German forces eventually capitulated on the evening of May 2.

Intent on annexation, the Yugoslavs quickly began forming their own (Communist) military administration. They began to arrest members of the population, including the Italian democratic resistance force, the CLN (see Foibe massacres). On May 5, 1945, the Yugoslavs opened fire on a pro-Italian demonstration, killing at least five people.[1] The Yugoslav troops were finally forced to withdraw from the city on June 12 under diplomatic pressure from the Western Allies.

ITALIAN CITY

In 1947, Trieste became an independent state as the Free Territory of Trieste and was governed for several years by the Allied Military Government, comprising American and (mainly) British forces headed by Sir Terence Airey. This state was de facto dissolved in 1954: the city of Trieste, dubbed Zone A, went to Italy, while the southern part of the territory (Zone B), comprising Istria and some parts of the Karst went to Yugoslavia. The annexation to Italy was officially proclaimed on October 26 of that year.

The border questions with Yugoslavia and the status of the ethnic minorities were settled definitively in 1975 with the Treaty of Osimo.


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