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  Gorizia and Gradisca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gorizia and Gradisca (German: Görz und Gradisca; Italian: Gorizia e Gradisca; Slovenian: Goriška in Gradiščanska; Friulian: Gurize e Gardiscje) was a county in what is now a multilingual border area of Italy and Slovenia.
In 1861, the area was reorganized as the Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca (Gefürstete Grafschaft Görz und Gradisca / Principesca Contea di Gorizia e Gradisca / Poknežena grofija Goriška in Gradiščanska / Contee principescje di Gurize e Gardiscje), a crown land Austria.
After 1945 the eastern areas of the former county were ceded to the Yugoslav constituent republic of Slovenia although the cities of Gorizia and Gradisca d'Isonzo remained part of Italy's Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gorizia_and_Gradisca   (680 words)

  
 Gradisca - LoveToKnow 1911
GRADISCA, a town of Austria, in the province of Gorz and Gradisca, io m.
Gradisca originally formed part of the margraviate of Friuli, came under the patriarchate of Aquileia in 1028, and in 1420 to Venice.
In 1647 Gradisca and its territory, including Aquileia and forty-three smaller places, were erected into a separate countship in favour of Johann Anton von Eggenberg, duke of Krumau.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gradisca   (148 words)

  
 Gorz und Gradisca (Austro-Hungarian Empire)
Gradisca had (and has) a coat of arms "per fess or and azure, a cross surmounting a crescent argent", so the colours YBW are plausible.
1747 - 1754: the counties of Gorz and Gradisca are dependent from the imperial chamber of Lubiana;
Coat of arms of Gradisca, about 1640 - it show also a field with Bellona, goddess of war, granted by Ferdinand II in 1622 to the town, to remember the help given by the women during the siege suffered by the town during the war of 1615-1618.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ah-gg.html   (918 words)

  
 Consorzio Castelli - Gradisca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Gradisca was posed with another serious threat when Austria inherited the nearby County of Gorizia in 1500.
Besieged by the League of Cambrai, pounded by cannon-fire and isolated from the remaining Venetian troops, its population decimated by the plague, Gradisca eventually surrendered in 1511.
In 1615-1617 Gradisca was at the centre of the so-called “Gradiscan war” between Austria and Venice.
www.consorziocastelli.it /icastelli/gradisca?lang=eng   (213 words)

  
 I Borghi più belli d'Italia
• 1479-1511: Gradisca's Venetian period begins with the refounding of the village itself, conceived as a bulwark of Christianity against the Turks.
From 1615 to 1617 Venice unleashes what comes to be known as the "Gradiscan war" against the Habsburgs in order to win back the city: the fortress resists and Gradisca gains the reputation of being invincible, and as such is sold to Johann Anton von Eggenberg by Ferdinand III for financial reasons.
At the close of the war, on the 6th of January 1921, it is annexed to Italy.
www.borghitalia.it /html/borgo_en.php?codice_borgo=131   (433 words)

  
 Görz und Gradisca
The County of Gradisca used as colours of the country a flag which showed three horizontal stripes in white, gold and blue.
The colours descend from the coat of arms of Gradisca: in gold and blue divided shield and in the middle a sharpend silvery anchor-cross.
The scutcheon of the "Princely County of Goerz und Gradisca" is clefted und shows to the left the heraldry of Goerz and on the right that of Gradisca.
www.flaggenlexikon.de /foestgrz.htm   (1405 words)

  
 Search Results for "Gradisca"
Gradisca d Isonzo, (grade´ska deson´tso) (KEY), town, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, NE Italy, on the Isonzo River, near the Slovenian border.
From 1815 to 1918 the Austrian crown land of Gorz-Gradisca (Slovenian Gorica) was included in Kustenland prov.
...demanded of Austria the immediate cession of the South Tyrol, the district of Gorizia and Gradisca, the establishment of Trieste and its neighborhood as a free state,...
www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Gradisca   (112 words)

  
 War of Gradisca, between Austria and Venice, 1615-1617
The Republic of Venice, because of her support of the Ottoman Empire during the Ottoman siege of Klis (Clissa) 1596 - a major Uskok fortress, until her fall - was regarded an enemy, her ships legitimate targets.
A Venetian campaign against the Uskoks from 1613 onward, in 1615 lead to War with Austria (1615), limited to the regions of (Venetian) Friulia, (Austrian) Gradisca and Gorizia, and (partially Venetian, partially Austrian) Istria, was terminated by the Treaty concluded in Paris Sept. 27th 1617 and ratified at Madrid.
Francesco Erizzo was commander of the Venetian troops during the siege of Gradisca, since June 18th; in 1631 he would be elected doge of the Republic.
www.zum.de /whkmla/military/17cen/gradisca16151617.html   (385 words)

  
 Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum
The GRADISCA was likewise employed for a major exchange undertaking in the spring of 1944, but served the navy primarily in the transport of the wounded and sick from the Aegean region.
In the period that followed, the GRADISCA's missions were often affected by the lack of clarity in the status of a hospital ship with regard to international law.
Upon leaving Alexandria the GRADISCA was ordered to head for Algiers, where the remainder of the wounded were taken from board and placed in British military hospitals, despite strong protest on the part of the ship's commanders and attempted intervention by the International Red Cross.
www.dsm.de /Pubs/23_11.htm   (706 words)

  
 Cormons e Gradisca
GRADISCA (whose name of Slavic origins means "fortress") gained its strategic importance in 1473 when Venice started to fortify the village changing it into a military stronghold against the pressure of the Habsburg Empire on one side, and against the Turkish incursions on the other.
The period of greatest splendour this village had during the rule of the Styrian family Eggenberg and lasted till the outbreak of the First World War.
Besides the wonderful view you can enjoy from the Mount Quarin, seat of the ancient Rocca of the 13th century, walking around in the streets of Cormons you may happen to come across little architectural treasuries, evidence of centuries of Habsburg rule.
www.grado.it /dintorni_cormons_uk.html   (353 words)

  
 Gorz und Gradisca (Austrohungarian Empire)
Gorz und Gradisca is an white over red horizontal bicolour.
In the period 1647 - 1717 the town of Gradisca had been rised to a separate County under the sovereignty of the Counts of Eggenberg.
When this family disappeared (1717) Gradisca reamined until 1754 an Imperial ownership, then was re-unified with Gorz.
www.atlasgeo.net /fotw/flags/at-hu-gg.html   (940 words)

  
 Consorzio Castelli - Gradisca
At the end of the 15th century Gradisca, then a small peasant village, was transformed by the Venetians into a prestigious citadel, indispensable to Venice as a defence against its greatest enemies: Maximilian of Hapsburgs and the Turks.
But not all was lost, because the knowledge the Venetians had acquired during the construction of Gradisca was used a century later in the construction of the new fortress of Palmanova.
The final section is devoted to the Jewish community of Gradisca d’Isonzo and contains photographs and documents illustrating the life of the Jewish community which settled in Gradisca between the 16th and the 20th century.
www.consorziocastelli.it /visitatori/musei/gradisca?lang=eng   (380 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Food - Scenes from a cozy Italian restaurant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Gradisca is the innocent, shapely beauty who inflames the men of this seaside town with her carnal assets and cheeky red fur hat.
So is Gradisca, the restaurant, where your central-casting waiter alternates between the slick-haired playboy who yearns to be off the clock and on the prowl to the rotund veteran whose food descriptions are thoroughly operatic.
And just like another zaftig woman in the film, Gradisca hugs you with its cocooning intimacy: The low ceilings, rustic tables and brick walls painted red place it among the city's most romantic joints.
www.nydailynews.com /city_life/food/story/380548p-322975c.html   (727 words)

  
 Gradisca d'Isonzo - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
GRADISCA D'ISONZO [Gradisca d'Isonzo], town, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, NE Italy, on the Isonzo River, near the Slovenian border.
From 1754 to 1918 it formed with Gorizia (Görz) the crown land of Görz-Gradisca in the Austrian province of Küstenland.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Gradisca d'Isonzo" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gradisca.asp   (144 words)

  
 MMI Special Report: Maya Deren Film Weekend in Gradisca, Italy. May 19-20, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Maya Deren’s films were shown at a restored theater called Sala Bergamas in the town of Gradisca north of Venice and introduced by the mayor.
There are several Deren enthusiasts in Italy and the feeling I got from the festival was that her particular filmmaking style is a vital one that is being emulated by young filmmakers.
On every point of her multi-faceted work was a thread that could be pulled, a connection made with the lives of Italians of all in Gradisca who came for inspiration and to see the manifestation of art and cinema beyond the standard fair of Hollywood movies that grace their theaters every day.
www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/maya-deren-gradisca.html   (500 words)

  
 GRADISCA - Online Information article about GRADISCA
Between 1471 and 1481 Gradisca was fortified by the Venetians, but in 1511 they surrendered it to the See also:
Maximilian I. In 1647 Gradisca and its territory, including Aquileia and See also:
The name was revived by the constitution of 1861, which established the crownland of Gorz and Gradisca.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GRADISCA.html   (271 words)

  
 STARA GRADISKA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1798 Father Grgur Mikaèiæ a Gradisca died but there is no record of the location of his grave.
In the book "Verbum abbreviatum", signed by Father Ivan Ninkoviæ a Gradisca, there is record of Father Josip a Gradisca, without the place or year of his death.
It should be noted that in 1733 Father Bonaventura a Gradisca was buried in Osijek.
www.studiacroatica.com /libros/stara/st14.htm   (846 words)

  
 Görz und Gradisca
The colours of the Kronland County of Goerz and Gradisca have their rooots in the colours of the coat of arms of the Earls of Goerz
The (afterward princely) County of Georz became an Habsburgian estate in the year 1500, later Kronland ("crown's land") of the Empire of Austria and got governmental summarized with the crown's lands Triest and Istria at the end of the 19th century to the crown's land of Coastal Land.
In result of the 1st World War got the territory of the County of Goerz and Gradisca ceded from Austria to Italy in accordance with the treaty of Saint-Germain (10.09.1919) and added to Italy as Province of "Gorìzia e Gradisca".
www.flaggenlexikon.de /fgoerz.htm   (260 words)

  
 GORZ AND GRADISCA - Online Information article about GORZ AND GRADISCA
Gorz and Gradisca had in 1900 a population of 232,338, which is See also:
Winden, to be distinguished from the Slovaks (q.v.) and from the Slovinci (see KASHUBES) west of Danzig]
Other principal places are Cormons (5824), Monfalcone (5536), Kirchheim (5699), Gradisca (3843) and Aquileia (2319).
encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GORZ_AND_GRADISCA.html   (1039 words)

  
 Gorizia and Gradisca with a glass of Collio
The church of Sant' Ignazio in Piazza della Vittoria with its Mitteleuropean domes and Fontana del Nettuno (Neptune's Fountain) is well worth a visit.
Likewise, the wars have left their toll on Gradisca and little remains of the old town.
Most of the defence structure (a complex system of walls and towers) which surrounded the town is now gone.
www.italiaplease.com /eng/megazine/giroditalia/2001/05/bled/index.html   (457 words)

  
 Gradisca - NYC Restaurant & Menu Guide. Menus, Ratings, Reviews. New York City, NY
I have never had a bad meal at Gradisca.
Gradisca is consistently good and always on their game.
The pastas are great and so is the way they do red meat.
www.menupages.com /restaurantdetails.asp?areaid=0&restaurantid=5370&neighborhoodid=0&cuisineid=35&home=Y   (222 words)

  
 Gradisca in New York, NY - AOL City Guide
Gradisca in New York, NY - AOL City Guide
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cityguide.aol.com /newyork/restaurants/gradisca/v-114471537?back=search.adp?query=gradisca&query=gradisca   (150 words)

  
 Delicious Italy - Honey from Gradisca d'Isonzo in province of Gorizia Friuli Venezia Giulia region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Delicious Italy - Honey from Gradisca d'Isonzo in province of Gorizia Friuli Venezia Giulia region
Delicious Italy ® is compiled for anyone who enjoys eating and traveling well.
Delicious Italy ® was invited to find out more and we spent a morning at the Enoteca La Serenissima, Gradisca d'Isonzo in March 2004.
www.deliciousitaly.com /Friulidishes18.htm   (309 words)

  
 Gradisca Restaurant New York New York NY Reviews Gayot
Gradisca Restaurant New York New York NY Reviews Gayot
The food is all quite satisfying, some very good, such as the Piadina prosciutto, mozzarella e rucola; the tagliolini freschi d'astice, tagliolini with grilled lobster, basil and diced tomato; or the tagliata alla rucola, grilled Angus beef on a bed of arugula with Parmigiano shavings and thickened balsamic vinegar.
To find more Gradisca related items, click here
www.gayot.com /restaurantpages/NewYorkInfo.php?tag=NYRES011276&code=NY   (176 words)

  
 FAI.ie - Butler Announces Under 16 Squad for Tournament of Gradisca
Republic of Ireland Under 16 International Manager, Vincent Butler has announced an 18 strong squad ahead of the highly anticipated, Tournament of Gradisca which is based in the border regions of Italy, Austria and Slovenia from 25th to 30th April.
The Republic of Ireland will face tough opposition in Group B with Croatia, Latvia and Serbia and Montenegro making up the group.
Speaking at the announcement of the squad, Vincent Butler said, “This will be a fantastic opportunity for our players who will be competing at the highest level in our age group, with teams such as Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro and Italy to name but a few.
www.fai.ie /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=405   (270 words)

  
 Mercure Hotel La Gradisca Rimini, Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
All rates shown below are PER ROOM, PER NIGHT unless stated otherwise not per person per night.
The Hotel Mercure La Gradisca has been restored to a unique style inspirater to the famous director Federico Fellini and is located in the main heart of the shopping centre close to the beach.
It is only five minutes from the railway station and Rimini's historic center with its antique buildings, Roman Arch and Tiberius Bridge.
www.ebookers.com /cheap_hotels/italy/mercure_hotel_la_gradisca_rimini.html   (179 words)

  
 Mercure La Gradisca Rimini Hotel - Special PROMOTIONAL and DISCOUNT rates available now for the Mercure La Gradisca ...
Mercure La Gradisca Rimini Hotel - Special PROMOTIONAL and DISCOUNT rates available now for the Mercure La Gradisca Rimini Hotel
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Mercure La Gradisca Rimini is centrally located, close to the beach and all the major attractions.
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 Hotel Mercure La Gradisca Rimini: book your Mercure hotel in RIMINI
Hotel Mercure La Gradisca Rimini: book your Mercure hotel in RIMINI
The hotel is in the heart of Marina Centro, only 1 km away from the city centre.
Number of free children in parent's room : 1
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 Mercure La Gradisca hotel, Rimini hotels, Emilia-Romagna hotels, ITALY hotels - Dilos Holiday World
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The Mercure La Gradisca is a nicely built and decorated hotel, set close to the beach, the Tiberius Bridge and the Fiera di Rimini convention centre.
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 Mercure La Gradisca Rimini Hotel - Guaranteed Lowest room rates available now for the Mercure La Gradisca Rimini Hotel
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 Hotel Mercure La Gradisca - Rimini Hotels - RN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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Modern hotel devoted to the films of Fellini, located in Rimini’s Marina Centro district, one kilometre from the city centre.
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