Muggia

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Muggia
coat of arms
Muggia (Italy)
Muggia
Country Italy
region Friuli Venezia Giulia
Coordinates 45 ° 36 ′  N , 13 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  E
height 3  m slm
surface 13 km²
Residents 13,013 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 1,001 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 34015
prefix 040
ISTAT number 032003
Popular name Muggesani
Patron saint Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Website Muggia

Muggia ( Slovenian Milje ; German  Mulgs ; Furlanisch Mugle ) is an Italian municipality with 13,013 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region .

It is the only part of Istria that has remained under Italian administration after the Paris Agreement (1947) and the Treaty of Osimo (1975).

history

Muggia was perhaps a castelliere (a village with a fortress) in prehistory , came under Roman rule following the establishment of Aquileia (181 BC) and the Wars of Conquest of Istria (178–177 BC). The Romans established a camp here, Castrum Muglae , to protect their colony's traffic routes from attacks by the Histrians .

After the end of the Western Roman Empire , Muggia came under the rule of Theodoric the Great and the Goths , later the Lombards , the Avars and the Franks . In 931 Muggia was finally handed over to the Patriarchate of Aquileia by the kings of Italy Hugo I ( Ugo ) and Lothar II ( Lotario ) . Because of the constant looting by robbers from the hinterland, the inhabitants of Muggia moved from the hill of the old Castrum Muglae to the seashore, where the present town is still located.

Location of the municipality of Muggia
Muggia

After various events, including the attack by the Genoese in 1354, the city came under the rule of the Republic of Venice in 1420 , which administered the city until 1797. After the handover to Austria , a prospering shipbuilding industry developed in Muggia. In 1857/1858 the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino was founded here - the largest shipyard of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , which until 1912 was the only one able to build the largest battleships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy . With the Treaty of Saint-Germain at the end of the First World War , Muggia, like all of Istria, came to Italy in 1919. In the second half of the 20th century, shipbuilding in Muggia fell into crisis as a result of the east-west conflict and the city's peripheral location at the Iron Curtain .

At the time of the Free Territory of Trieste , the place belonged to the so-called Zone A , until 2017 to the Province of Trieste .

Since the end of the Cold War and the integration of Slovenia into the EU in 2004, Muggia has been increasingly a lively tourist and trading center again.

Town twinning

Muggia has a partnership with the Austrian Obervellach (Carinthia).

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Muggia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.