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	Indianapolis Sister Cities
		Piran (Italian Pirano) is a town and municipality in southwestern Slovenia on the Adriatic coast along the Piran Bay.
		Piran is an old Mediterranean town situated at the tip of the Piran peninsula along the Piran Bay.
		Piran is the administrative centre of the local area and one of Slovenia's major tourist attractions.
	www.my-indy.com /Indianapolis_Sister_Cities.html (1130 words)

	Piran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piran (Italian Pirano) is a town and municipality in southwestern Slovenia on the Adriatic coast along the Piran Bay.
		Piran is an old Mediterranean town situated at the tip of the Piran peninsula along the Piran Bay.
		Piran is the birthplace of composer and violinist Giuseppe Tartini (born April 8, 1692), who played an important role in shaping its cultural heritage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piran (331 words)

	Entrez-PubMed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cytopathology of Bay of Piran shrimp virus (BPSV), a new crustacean virus from the Mediterranean Sea.
		A new picorna-like or parvo-like virus was found in the hepatopancreas of the shrimp Palaemon elegans from the Bay of Piran (Mediterranean Sea).
		Bay of Piran shrimp virus (BPSV) infects preferably the R-cells of the hepatopancreas and to a lesser extent the F-cells.
	worm-chip.stanford.edu /worm_mito_pubmed.1996.html (2192 words)

	Piran travel guide - Wikitravel
		Piran (Italian: Pirano) is a city in Slovenia.
		Piran is probably the most beautiful of Slovenia's coastal towns, perched on a tiny piece of land jutting into the sea.
		It feels more like an Italian coastal town, without all the Italian tourists, and for good reason: Piran was part of the Venetian empire from the late 13th century to the end of the 18th century.
	wikitravel.org /en/Piran (920 words)

	April 26, 1993 Vreme News Digest Agency No 83 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the arguments for Slovenia's claim to the bay of Piran is the fact that, until the two republics became independent (June 25th 1991), it was secured and used---by the Slovenian side, and in international law that is an important argument for determining whom the bay of Piran would belong to.
		There exist several old documents, that is, decrees issued by the Piran municipality entrusting the Slovenian police with controlling the fish preserve in the bay, as well as new ones.
		Examples of "close encounters" in the bay of Piran supplement this gloomy picture, illustrating the level of the two countries' relations and the kind of policy they are conducting towards each other.
	www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/83/t83-8.htm (1426 words)

	St Piran
		Saint Piran is the patron saint of tin-miners.
		One thing is certain, the suggestion that St Piran is St Kieran of Clonmacnoise does not stand as this saint it is recorded to have died at the age of 32 and is buried at his monastery.
		Legend: St. Piran lit a fire on his fl hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore. The heat caused smelting to take place and tin rose to the top in the form of a white cross (thus the image on the flag).
	www.st-piran.com /st-piran.htm (542 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Aquaculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Piran fishing ranges the right of possession and partially only of easement was held (apart from the commune) also by some ecclesiastical communities and certain temporal and church individuals.
		The actual implementation and organisation of fishing in the Piran waters was left to the owners and leaseholders of the Piran fishing grounds.
		The fishing competence in the Bay of Piran after the second World War are well illuminated by various laws and decrees published by Yugoslav and Slovene official journals.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/aquaculture/piran-traditions.htm (1392 words)

	Oratory
		Piran's first oratory was probably built of wattle and daub which was not very durable so a new one of stone was built at a later date.
		People loved their saint so much that they wanted to be, in death as in life, as close to him as possible and so the oratory thrived for centuries.
		Some academics believe that stone was not in use in the 6th century, but the very hallowed spot Piran chose would have been where the little oratory was built.
	www.st-piran.com /oratory.htm (369 words)

	An Daras \| Customs & Traditions \| St Pirans Day \| Play
		In the next scene the locals are having a drink or two with Piran when a messenger arrives from the Bishop announcing his imminent arrival.
		Piran discovers it first when he falls through the roof which had been covered in sand.
		St Piran, thinking fast, explains that they had heard there was going to be an invasion and in order to protect the Church from damage they had buried it for safekeeping.
	www.an-daras.com /cutoms/cu_stpirans_play.htm (468 words)

	Holidays in Portoroz Slovenia
		The Slovene Coast is divided into the communes of Koper, including the tourist places in Ankaran and Zusterna, of Izola, with the tourist settlements of Simon Bay and Belvedere, and Of Piran, a picturesque historic town with the central tourist resort of Portoroz.
		Lying on the northern side of Piran Bay, this attractive modern seaside resort is one of the largest and most important tourist centres in both Slovenia and the Istrian peninsula.
		Piran has managed to keep its idyllic identity and thus it remains the most precious and best preserved old town in Slovene Istria.
	www.globtour-bled.com /en/portoroz-intro.html (1464 words)

	Fishing Frenzy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The border incidents in the Piran Bay are a consequence of the year-old border agreement between Slovenia and Croatia by which the two ex-Yugoslav republics, after 10 years of independence, finally defined their 670- kilometer-long land and sea border in the Piran Bay.
		The different explanations on jurisdiction over the Piran Bay come from opposite interpretations of the UN Convention on the law of the sea.
		Until a final border demarcation is adopted by a bilateral agreement, Croatia believes that the provisional border, according to the convention, runs in the middle of the bay, while Slovenia wants to keep its jurisdiction in the whole of the bay until the final adoption of the border agreement.
	www.tol.cz /look/BRR/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1&NrArticle=6462 (903 words)

	Piran Bay dispute still hampers Croatian-Slovenian ties (SETimes.com)
		Piran Bay dispute still hampers Croatian-Slovenian ties (SETimes.com)
		The maritime border in the Bay of Piran -- known as Savudria Bay by Croatians -- remains undetermined, and periodic controversies have erupted over fishing rights.
		Hinting that Zagreb needs its neighbour's support, Slovenian officials have suggested that fishing rights in Piran Bay are tied to EU rules, and have accused Croatia of dragging its feet in meeting EU requirements in that area.
	www.balkantimes.com /cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2006/03/06/feature-03 (519 words)

	The Centre for SouthEast European Studies
		Such attitudes forced Zagreb to give up efforts to ratify the framework agreement signed in 2001 which settled the key disputes for the sea border in the Piran bay and also for the their common ownership of the Krsko nuclear power plant in Slovenia.
		The Piran bay dispute originates from the lack of clear boundary demarcation between the former Yugoslav republics.
		According to the agreement which Croatia never ratified it would have to concede to Slovenia the bigger part (?bout 75%) of the Piran bay in return for several villlages in another disputed border territory.
	www.csees.net /?page=analyses&a_id=27 (686 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Fishermen urge deal to end Adriatic row
		The arguments centre on the Piran Bay, which earlier this week was the scene of scuffles between vessels from Croatia and Slovenia.
		The fishermen say they will not work in parts of the bay in order to give their politicians time to agree a formal end to the dispute.
		The Piran Bay is a small part of the former Yugoslavia.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/2243227.stm (367 words)

	Hotel Piran
		Piran is an ancient coastal town on the most western headland of Slovenian Istria.
		Over the centuries the townspeople have made their living by fishing, handicrafts and trade in goods such as salt, wine, oil and fish.
		Events such as the Piran Music Evenings, the international artists’ Ex tempore exhibition, the Primorska Summer Festival and the cribs displayed in Piran’s churches during December are a further attraction.
	hoteli-piran.domovanje.com /en (204 words)

	Region of Istria: Geographic data
		Slovenian coastline with the Kopar Bay and a part of the Piran Bay up to the mouth of the Dragonja River is a part of the Republic of Slovenia.
		The sinking of Karst recess created specific and branched bays, such as the Pula port, the Medulin bay, the Rovinj coast, the Poreč coast and similar.
		Among legally protected landscape in the Istrian Region are well-known natural reservations-national park Brijuni, nature park Učka, protected landscape Limski Bay, the Motovunska Wood, park wood Zlatni Rt and orinthologic reservation Palud near Rovinj, park wood Šijana near Pula and the protected landscape Kamenjak in the extreme south of Istria.
	www.istra-istria.hr /index.php?id=610 (1096 words)

	Virtualna Slovenija - Slovenska Istra - Piran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Piran is old Mediterranean town which is situated at the cape of the Piran peninsula on the northern side of Istria.
		Narrow streets and tight houses are a special charm of the town.
		Piran is an administrative centre of the local area and also important Slovenian tourist centre.
	www.burger.si /Piran/Piran_3.htm (63 words)

	Serbia Today, 96-09-30
		The territorial dispute between Slovenia and Croatia regarding the Bay of Piran in Northern Adriatic is steaming up again following the incident occurred on Saturday, Sept. 28, when a patrol boat of the Croatian Police, threatening to use arms, chased out a Slovenian fishing boat.
		The Slovenian-Croatian border in the Bay of Piran is still not defined and Lubljana insist that the republican border and the Slovenian sovereignty over the Bay of Piran be respected.
		He underlined that "Slovenia will not renounce to full sovereignty over the Bay of Piran" and accused Croatia of not showing readiness for the final definition of mutual borders and added "We shall seek solution within the framework of European institutions".
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/serb/1996/96-09-30.serb.html (1864 words)

	Salinera - Hoteli Piran - the recreation and relaxation valley
		We recommend that guests with an interest in nature should take a walk past the small pilgrimage church and the Mediterranean stone pine trees to the Mesečev zaliv bay.
		The bay has a unique shape and lies in the centre of the Strunjan Nature Reserve.
		It is also possible to take excursions to the attractive Mediterranean town of Piran and other places along the Slovene coast.
	www.hoteli-piran.si /salinera/en/index.php?id_strani=213 (244 words)

	hidden europe magazine - Articles - hidden europe 8 (May 2006) - that half a rood of sand with material by Bill ...
		For some Croatians, the very fact that the bay is named after the nearby Slovenian town of Piran is itself an affront.
		Elsewhere, the name Dragonjski zaljev (Dragonja Bay) has gained a certain currency; the name is derived from the principal river that feeds the bay.
		With both governments now under pressure from the European Union to come to an agreement as part of the package to progress Croatia's application for EU membership, both Slovene and Croatian cartographers are being very cautious these days — both on the matter of names and on exactly where to draw that disputed boundary.
	www.hiddeneurope.co.uk /article_info.php?articles_id=201 (308 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Slovenian-Croatian border dispute enters EU arena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The unresolved sea border and, in particular, jurisdiction over the Piran Bay, remains the largest outstanding feud between the two countries and has led to numerous conflicts between Croatian and Slovenian fishermen.
		Under a draft agreement in 2001, Slovenia was to receive 80 per cent of the Piran Bay.
		The deal was never ratified, and now Croatia is pressing for 50 per cent of the bay.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=9776 (540 words)

	Annales, Series Historia Naturalis, 10, 2001, 2
		The Bays of Koper and Piran have been considered sensitive areas, since they can be affected by polluted waters of the Gulf of Trieste as well as by land-based sources of pollution along the Slovenian coast.
		The inner part of the Bay of Koper is receiving effluents from the municipal wastewater treatment plant and individual industries and agglomerations along the Rižana and Badaševica rivers.
		Domestic and agricultural discharges into the inner part of the Bay of Piran by the Dragonja river, tourism and intensive aquaculture reduce the quality of the water and may cause local changes in the marine ecosystem.
	www.zrs-kp.si /EN/Zaloznistvo/annales/Anali25/turk_potocnik.htm (595 words)

	Slovenia/Croatia: A New Dispute In Bilateral Relations? - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Perhaps it was in part to take advantage of this lull that the Croatian and Slovenian governments held a joint session on the Croatian island of Brijuni in early June.
		Although a number of agreements were reached -- most notably, an understanding to avoid future incidents in the contested Bay of Piran -- the goodwill expressed at the meeting appears to have reflected wishful thinking rather than true rapprochement in bilateral relations.
		The Bay of Piran appears set to become a point of contention once again in summer 2005.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/7/F6443C62-4EB8-480A-8303-7AC8CAD50696.html (924 words)

	Perranporth Holiday Cornwall- 3 miles of golden sands
		Between the months of July and October the pilchard shoals arrival in the bay would be sounded by the huer, a man acting as lookout, positioned on the clifftop, blowing into a trumpet.
		Walking along the wide expanse of beach in Perran Bay north towards Penhale Point you may notice adits, horizontal tunnels driven into the cliffs, to drain the water from the nearby tin mines, such as Wheal Vhow.
		St Piran Perrans Bay is reputed to be the landing place of St Piran, the patron saint of Cornish Tinners.
	www.cornishlight.co.uk /perranporth.htm (494 words)

	Portalino - White paper on Slovenia-Croatia border to facilitate dialogue
		It does not deal with the entire border but mainly with access to the high seas, the Bay of Piran, several settlements south of the river Dragonja (SW), the region alongside the river Mura (NE), an area of woods around Sneznik (SW) and an area in Bela krajina (SE).
		He also pointed out that both countries had bound themselves in their constitutional documents to respect the status on the day of declaring independence, yet Croatia tried to prejudice the course of the border through several one-sided activities after 25 June 1991.
		Rupel stressed that Croatia unilaterally changed the name of the historical and internationally recognised Bay of Piran into "Savudrijska vala" and drew a border line in the middle of the Bay of Piran on its maps.
	www.portalino.it /nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=16607 (460 words)

	Piran Bay dispute still hampers Croatian-Slovenian ties (SETimes.com)
		Croatia and Slovenia are still struggling to reach agreement over their disputed maritime border in the Piran Bay.
		After more than a decade, Croatia and Slovenia remain unable to resolve their dispute over a section of the Adriatic that connects both countries.
		"We won't allow Slovenian fishermen to fish in the Croatian part of Piran Bay," said Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, adding that his government would "do anything to avoid incidents".
	www.setimes.com /cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2006/03/06/feature-03 (519 words)

	Government of the Republic of Slovenia
		The Slovenian Government has issued a decree on the Slovenian fishing zone that encompasses the whole of the disputed Bay of Piran, as well as international waters included within its protective ecological zone in the Adriatic.
		According to the Slovenian Foreign Ministry, the decree is a direct response to the decision taken by Croatia last month to extend its fishing zone to the middle of the Bay.
		The decree divides the Slovenian fisheries into three zones: Zone A incorporates territorial waters covering the whole Bay of Piran; Zone B covers territorial waters bordering Italy and Croatia; and Zone C covers the Slovenian ecological zone in international waters.
	www.vlada.si /index.php?&i1=UVI&i2=ang&i3=1&i4=spj&i5=ter_dvl_021&i10=artic&i12=19BD7C3259438CC5C12570FA00490E70&i15=on_Gnovica&j1=utf-8&j2=content&j3=gids&j4= (119 words)

	Slovenia, a new emerging economy
		The Piran Bay area is also highly contentious.
		The neighbouring states reached an agreement on the disputed Piran Bay area in 2001, but the deal was widely unpopular in Croatia and Zagreb never ratified it.
		Rop's handling of long-standing territorial disputes with Croatia had been criticised by the SDS in the election campaign, along with his handling of the economy, road infrastructure problems and pension issues.
	www.newnations.com /archive/2004/November/si.html (1472 words)

	A Balkan Border Dispute Is Nonviolent but Nettlesome
		A boat floating in the Bay of Piran, where the maritime border between Slovenia and Croatia is disputed.
		Joras’s house, but with the demarcation line in the nearby Bay of Piran, through which its ships have to pass to reach Koper, its sole Adriatic port.
		Croatia claims half of the bay, and with the coast of Italy just few miles north, that claim does not give Slovenia a passage wide enough to be in international waters, which it very much wants.
	www.8o8o8.com /news/117/ARTICLE/1084/2006-07-18.html (1105 words)

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