Former country in Europe between Italy and Yugoslavia
Free Territory of Trieste
Territorio Libero di Trieste(Italian) Svobodno tržaško ozemlje(Slovene) Slobodni Teritorij Trsta(Croatian) Слободна Територија Трста(Serbian) Teritorio Libero de Trieste (Triestine · Venetian)
1947–1954
Flag
Coat of arms
Anthem:Inno Di San Giusto "Hymn to Saint Justus"
Zone A (green) and Zone B (blue and pink), indicating how the territory was split following its dissolution
Status
Independent territory under direct responsibility of the United Nations Security Council
Capital
and largest city
Trieste
Official languages
Italian · Slovene · Serbo-Croatian · English (only for administrative purposes)
Religion
Catholicism, Serbian Orthodox, Judaism
Demonym(s)
Triestine
Government
Temporary UNSC military government
Governor (Zone A)
• 1945 (first)
Bernard Freyberg
• 1951–1954 (last)
John Winterton
Governor (Zone B)
• 1945–1947 (first)
Dušan Kveder
• 1951–1954 (last)
Miloš Stamatović
Legislature
People's Assembly
Historical era
Cold War
• Trieste operation
30 April 1945
• UNSC Resolution 16
10 January 1947
• Treaty of Paris
10 February 1947
• London Memorandum
5 October 1954
• Treaty of Osimo
10 November 1975
Currency
Italian lira (Zone A) Triestine lira (Zone B)[1]
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Italy
Yugoslavia
Italy
Today part of
Croatia Slovenia Italy
The Free Territory of Trieste[2] was an independent territory in Southern Europe between northern Italy and Yugoslavia, facing the north part of the Adriatic Sea, under direct responsibility of the United Nations Security Council in the aftermath of World War II. For a period of seven years, it acted as a free city.
The territory was established on 10 February 1947, by a protocol of the Treaty of Peace with Italy, to accommodate an ethnically and culturally mixed population in a neutral independent country. The intention was also to cool down territorial claims between Italy and Yugoslavia, due to its strategic importance for trade with Central Europe. It came into existence on 15 September 1947. Its administration was divided into two areas: one being the port city of Trieste with a narrow coastal strip to the northwest (Zone A); the other (Zone B) was formed by a small portion of the north-western part of the Istrian peninsula.
The territory was de facto dissolved in 1954 and given to Italy (Zone A) and Yugoslavia (Zone B). This created a border dispute which was only settled twenty years later with the signing the bilateral Treaty of Osimo in 1975, which was ratified in 1977.[3]
The city of Trieste and the territory which formed Zone A is today part of Italy's Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Following the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the area of the former Zone B is today part of Slovenia and Croatia.
^"A/AC.25/Com.Jer/W.4". United Nations. Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^Italian: Territorio libero di Trieste; Slovene: Svobodno tržaško ozemlje; Croatian: Slobodni teritorij Trsta; Serbian: Cлободна Територија Трста; Triestine Venetian: Teritorio Libero de Trieste
^Drašček, Nuša. "Slovenska zahodna meja po drugi svetovni vojni", diplomsko delo, Univerza v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, 2005, Archived 27 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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