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  1. Port on the Adriatic, opposite Venice, in
  2. Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, Italy; population
  3. (1988) 237,000, including a large Slovene
  4. minority. It is the site of the International
  5. Centre for Theoretical Physics, established
  6. 1964. Trieste was under Austrian rule from
  7. 1382 (apart from Napoleonic occupation
  8. 1809-14) until transferred to Italy 1918. It
  9. was claimed after World War II by Yugoslavia,
  10. and the city and surrounding territory were
  11. divided 1954 between Italy and Yugoslavia.
  12.