Trieste goes downhill.....

[János Székely]

Uphill, rather.
Trieste wilingly sought the Habsburgs' protection in the 14th century, and
from then on, it benefited from being Austria's only major seaport,
especially with the decilne of Venice as a political and economic power. As
for autonomy, it was a Free Imperial City until the Empire existed.

2008/1/22, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
>
> 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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Triestino>merchant shipping line in
> 1836 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste#_note-0>
>
> The modern Austro-Hungarian Navy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Southern_Railway>,
> was completed in 1857 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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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