Nova Gorica
Nova Gorica New Gorizia |
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Basic data | |||
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Country | Slovenia | ||
Historic region | Coastal land / Primorska | ||
Statistical region | Goriška (Gorica) | ||
Coordinates | 45 ° 57 ' N , 13 ° 39' E | ||
surface | 309 km² | ||
Residents | 36,710 (2012) | ||
Population density | 119 inhabitants per km² | ||
Telephone code | (+386) 05 | ||
Post Code | 5000 | ||
License Plate | GO | ||
Structure and administration | |||
Community type | Mestna občina | ||
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Nova Gorica ( German Neu-Görz ) is a city in western Slovenia , right on the Italian border. The city is located around 65 km west of the regional capital Ljubljana (Ljubljana) and 35 km north of the Italian city of Trieste . The city had 13,852 inhabitants in 2002. 20,694 people also lived in the neighboring suburbs and the municipality of Nova Gorica today has a calculated population of 36,710.
history
The Treaty of Paris divided the Austrian city of Görz / Gorizia until 1918 and Italian until 1945 . East of the old town of Gorizia, the border was set immediately west of the Wocheiner Bahn , so that it runs across the station forecourt ( Piazza Transalpina / Trg Evropa ). The station was occupied by Yugoslav partisans on May 1, 1945 along with the entire city of Gorizia east of the Isonzo .
In 1948 the foundation stone was laid for the new city center of Nova Gorica, a city from the drawing board, which is the most important urbanism project of the city planner and architect Edvard Ravnikar , as a new urban center for the Yugoslav side of the border. Nova Gorica also includes older settlements that existed before 1947. Nova Gorica has been a university town since the University of Nova Gorica was founded in 1995.
Since December 21, 2007, the state border Slovenia-Italy can be crossed at any point due to the Schengen Agreement , to which Slovenia has acceded; regular border controls have been discontinued. This greatly reduces the separating effect of the division of Gorizia, which has been in effect under international law since 1947. All citizens of a state of the European Union are entitled to cross the border without a permit .
Based on the German city name Gorizia, Nova Gorica is referred to as Neu-Gorizia in some unofficial texts .
The pilgrimage site of Heiligenberg is not far from the city .
Districts of the entire municipality
( the German names in brackets )
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Community partnerships
Nova Gorica maintains partnerships with the following cities and municipalities:
literature
- Marko Simić: On the trail of the Isonzo front , Mohorjeva Hermagoras, Klagenfurt-Laibach-Wien 2004; ISBN 3-85013-884-4 .
- Gerhard Pilgram , Wilhelm Berger, Gerhard Maurer: Looking for the distance. On foot from Carinthia to Trieste. A hiking-travel-reading book. Ed. from the university cultural center Unikum, Klagenfurt. Carinthia-Verlag, Styria Publishing Group Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Nova Gorica calculations 2012