Trieste goes downhill.....

[Mark Kohut]

Michael Bailey wrote:

"Trieste - on the back of the top (northeast) of the boot of Italy,
on the border of Slovenia.  James Joyce was teaching English
there from 1904-1915, give or take, off and on...
port, crossroads, cultural centre, part of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire until WWI

---Cyprian is monitoring the docks"
 
"Trieste - on the back of the top (northeast) of the boot of Italy,

The city's role as the principal Austrian commercial port and shipbuilding center was later emphasized by the foundation of the Austrian Lloyd merchant shipping line in 1836, whose headquarters stood at the corner of the Piazza Grande and Sanita. By 1913 Austrian Lloyd had a fleet of 62 ships comprising a total of 236,000 tons.[1]
The modern Austro-Hungarian Navy also used Trieste's shipbuilding facilities and as a base. The construction of the first major trunk railway in the Empire, the Vienna-Trieste Austrian Southern Railway, was completed in 1857, a valuable asset for trade and the supply of coal."
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Trieste, virtually autonomous politically until the 17th Century............devolves, descends, to this........................................


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