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  Udine - LoveToKnow 1911
UDINE, a town and archiepiscopal see of Venetia, Italy, capital of the province of Udine, situated between the Gulf of Venice and the Alps, 84 m.
The leading industry of Udine is silk-spinning, but it also possesses manufactures of linen, cotton, hats and paper, tanneries and sugar refineries, and has a considerable trade in flax, hemp, andc.
In the middle ages it became a flourishing and populous city; in 1222 or 1238 the patriarch Berthold made it the capital of Friuli, and in 1420 it became Venetian.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Udine
Udine is that of S. Maria di Castello, transformed in the sixteenth century.
Udine, after a long siege, surrendered to the Venetians, and thenceforward it belonged to the republic, being the capital of Friuli.
Udine was the birthplace of the military leaders Savorgnano and Colloredo and the painters Giovanni da
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  Encyclopedia: Province of Udine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Friulian (friulano in Italian, furlan or affectionately marilenghe in Friulian) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaetian family, spoken in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-east Italy.
In Italy, the province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (Regione).
Udine stands at the centre of the Region Friuli Venezia-Giulia in a favoured geographical position, near a wide and pleasant arch of morainic hills, on the international route which links up the south and the north-east of Europe.
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 History of the Province
The province of Udine was founded in 1797 as a department of Passariano, set up by Napoleon Buonaparte after his conquest of the Homeland of Friuli.
In this way the Province witnesses the establishment of its consultation bodies, which were mostly expression of the local nobility and which are the origin of the current democratic representation of its citizens.
With the reformation of the Local Bodies, the province of Udine is involved in the role of coordination of the 137 Town districts with functions of planning and promotion of cultural, social, environmental protection and territorial development activities.
www.provincia.udine.it /english/Board/HistoryoftheProvince/index.aspx   (515 words)

  
 Governments - Provinces
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 Euromosaic - Slovenian in Italy
In the Province of Gorizia, there is a classical lycée, a teacher training school (with a department for nursery school teachers), a commercial school and a Slovenian course at the secondary technical school for industry with Slovenian as the medium of instruction, total pupil numbers being 321 in the 1985/86 academic year.
In the Province of Trieste there is a language lycée (with a classics department), a commercial school (with a department for surveyors), a secondary technical school for industry and craft and a teacher training school (with a department for nursery school teachers), which had a total number of 891 pupils in the academic year.
In the Provinces of Trieste and Gorizia, Slovenian is the medium of instruction in the Slovenian institutions mentioned above, while this is not the case in the Province of Udine.
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 Province of Udine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Provincia di Udine, Friulian Provincie di Udin) is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy.
It has an area of 4,905 sq km, and a total population of 518,840 (2001).
There are 137 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Province_of_Udine   (117 words)

  
 Sightseeing
Udine (satellite view) is located at the "top right" of Italy, between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea.
The city of Udine is the capital of the 600000-inhabitant province of Udine, which stretches from the sea to the mountains.
Udine itself offers a good sampler of Venetian architecture, relatively uncontaminated by major tourist streams, and even by visiting only one or two smaller towns nearby, such as Cividale and San Daniele, you can get a very nice feeling of "real" life and culture.
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 Friulian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Today, Friulian is spoken in the province of Udine, in the majority of the province of Pordenone, in more than half of the province of Gorizia and in the eastern part of the province of Venice.
In about 40 per cent of the communities in the Province of Udine, road signs are both in Friulian and Italian.
In the official writing system, approved by the Province of Udine and used in official documents, Friulian is written using the Latin alphabet, plus the c-cedilla (รง).
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 Main regions of Italy including Tuscany, Veneto, Campania, Piedmont, Lombardi and Sicily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The name of Udine was recorded for the first time in 983 when the Imperator Ottone II of Germany gave the castle of Udine to Rodoaldo, the Patriarch of Aquileia, together with those of Buga, Fuganea, Groang and Braitan.
Located in the province of Udine, the Poresta di Tarvisio is a vast mountain area, which extends over 23,000 ha, across the Ea­sternmost portion of the Carnic Alps and the Northern group of the Julian Alps.
Located in the province of Udine, the park, situated in the northernmost area of the Eastern Alps, includes the Italian side of the Monte Canin (2857 meters), the Julian Pre-Alps and the valleys of the Tagliamento ri­verbed.
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 Chamber of Commerce Industry Craft and Agriculture of Province of UDINE - A province that counts
A fundamental factor for the support of productive activities is the considerable development achieved by the tertiary sector, which is going through a particularly favourable period in the province of Udine.
There is a figure that is very revealing: more than 50,000 enterprises are active in the province of Udine, and they are 48 per cent of those present in the whole territory of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Tourism is in steady growth, not only as regards the seaside and mountains, but also as regards the wine-and-food sector and the cultural sector, thanks to the renewed attractiveness of the territory, enhanced by the strong promotion carried out by the Executive Committee that runs the Chamber of Commerce since its establishment.
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 Hotel Udine, Hotels Udine, Welcome, Udine, Hospitality Udine, Lodge Udine, Lodges Udine, Lodging Udine, Lodgings Udine, ...
Udine stands at the centre of the Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia in a favoured geographical position, near a wide and pleasant arch of morainic hills, on the internanonal route which links up the south and the north-east of Europe.
Yet the aspect of the city was sharply modelled only after 1420 when Udine and the whole of Friuli were part of the Venetian Republic.
After the unsuccessful liberal rising of 1848, on the 2nd of October 1866 the Province of Udine was annexed to the Reign of Itaiy" (Rizzi).
www.emmeti.it /Welcome/Friuli/Udine/index.uk.html   (301 words)

  
 Archivio di stato di Udine
In this territorial redistribution, Udine was given the Tarvisio and the Cervignano Districts.
Consequentially, the pre-existent territory of the Province of Gorizia was modified reducing its extension.
The State Archive of Udine can co-operate with those who don't the city of origin of their own male ancestors born between 1846 and 1930 by searching within the lists of inscription for the military draft that were compiled by city mayors for the military offices.
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 Delicious Italy - Province of Udine guide
The Province of Udine comprises 75% of the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
To the west of Udine is San Daniele del Friuli.
The town is famed for its ham and sits on a hill with a majestic view of the mountains.
www.deliciousitaly.com /itinerario.php?id=231®ione_id=6   (288 words)

  
 Kontakt Kontrakt 2002
With a population of more that 1 million and 200 hundred thousand inhabitants, its area covers 7,800 square kilometers, 62 per cent of which belongs to the province of Udine, which is the capital of Friuli and the area with the highest industrial density in the entire region.
The whole region, and particularly the province of Udine - which is its heart - acts as a natural interchange for the traffic coming from eastern Europe, the area of the Middle East and the Balkan area.
The Chamber of Commerce of Udine is the strategic landmark for local entrepreneurial activities and offers a network of soundly structured services: it is a group of structures formed by special companies and shareholding companies able to offer small and medium sized enterprises the highest standard of efficency and quality in its services.
www.ohkbrno.cz /k-k2002/en/region/italie.html   (599 words)

  
 La Repubblica/politica: Anche Udine al centrosinistra si completa la debacle del Polo
Cecotti era già sindaco di Udine: l'altra volta era stato eletto con la Lega Nord; adesso, insieme al neo governatore del Friuli, Riccardo Illy, è stato l'artefice della sconfitta del Polo che ha cercato (con scarsi risultati) di risolvere nel nordest una parte dei suoi problemi nazionali.
Sempre alle elezioni nazionali del 2001, Forza Italia raggiunse a Udine il 26%; questa volta deve accontentarsi del 16%, mentre An scende di poco dal 13,8% al 12%.
Un riepilogo schematico, dice che, oltre alla Regione Friuli, passata dal centrodestra al centrosinistra, e oltre alla conferma dell'Union Valdotaine (maggioranza assoluta) e dei suoi alleati diessini in Valle d'Aosta, il centrosinistra conquista 7 province contro 5 del centrodestra e 6 comuni capoluogo (compreso Udine) contro 4.
www.repubblica.it /online/politica/elezgiugno/udin/udin.html   (519 words)

  
 Italian A to Z Place Finder - Over 600 Places in Italy Listed [U]
Udine - A province in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Udine - A town or city in the province of Udine in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Umbertide - A town or city in the province of Perugia in the region of Umbria.
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 Cuore triveneto: citta
It is impossible to forget Aquileia, which became a Roman colony in 181 B.C. and was later considered only next to Rome by virtue of its riches and trade with the Orient.
In terms of income, life standard and cultural activities the Province of Udine is considered among the first in Italy.
In terms of population the territory of Udine is sub-divided in 137 municipalities, where the inhabitants are distributed in small communities.
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 Destinations: Udine
With only a sprinkling of tourists, Udine is a quietly peaceful city found at the center of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.
Situated along the international route linking the southern and north-eastern parts of Europe, Udine has a cross-cultural feel that is heartily apparent in the flavors of its cuisine.
During the period between 1472 and 1499, Udine and its surrounding area suffered a number of raids by the Turks.
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 FURLAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Friulian (or Eastern Ladin) is spoken in the provinces of Udine, Pordenone and in parts of the province of Gorizia and of Venice.
Friulan is used in some state nursery schools of the province of Udine in pilot projects of bilingual pre-school education.
Friulian language and literature are taught at the Universities of Udine and Trieste.
www.minority2000.net /Gr-75/t35gb.htm   (309 words)

  
 Map of Udine. Location of Udine. (The province of Udine)
This is a map of Italy that identifies the province of Udine.
The province of Udine is a part of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.
Italy: Index to provinces and regions in Italy.
www.pickatrail.com /jupiter/location/europe/italy/udine.html   (257 words)

  
 Italy - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
By this time the Allied military government had handed over to the Italian government the control of all territory except Venezia Giulia and the Udine province, while the economic situation was eased by supplies that reached Italy from foreign sources through the agency of the UN.
In an agreement to settle the issue in 1946, Austria acknowledged the existing Brenner frontier with Italy, and Italy in turn promised local self-government or autonomy within the framework of the Italian state for the province of Bolzano and the few mixed-language communes in the province of Trento to the south.
After several years of tension in the province, including terrorist incidents in the early 1960s, the Italian and Austrian governments found a mutually acceptable policy that restored peace to the area.
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 Unasylva - Vol. 3, No. 1 - Chestnut blight in Europe
Piedmont: Province of Cuneo; fairly extensive area at Bagnasco; a few trees at Chiusa Pesio and Mondovi (1948); province of Turin; two trees at Traves (1948); province of Vercelli; a small area near Biella (1948); province of Novara; all the eastern side of the Lake of Orta (1948).
Campania: Province of Avellino; the initial area severely infected at Baiano (1943) has spread to the western side of the province and small areas are to be found in the adjoining provinces of Benevento, Caserta, Naples (1947) and Salerno (1948) on the borders of the province of Avellino (1947).
In the province of Pavia the infected area of Cilavegna is very interesting because the chestnut trees existing there form a small group of old trees quite isolated from any other chestnut grove.
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 CULTURE AND NATURE IN FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Udine stands at the centre of the Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia in a favoured geographical position, near a wide and pleasant arch of morainic hills, on the international route which links up the south and the north-east of Europe.
After the unsuccessful liberal rising of 1848, on th 2nd of October 1866 the Province of Udine was annexed to the Reign of Italy" (Rizzi).
At the beginning of the 18th century a radical project of transformation involving both the exterior and the interior was undertaken at the desire and wholly at the expense of the Marin family.
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 Part 1 • Planning, Diplomacy, Getting Ready
Bolzano Province, however, raised a problem; 80 percent of the population of 277,000 were German-speaking, from 65 to 80 percent were of German origin, and most of those were closely attached to Austrian tradition.
He pointed out that Udine was a particularly unsettled area, containing a considerable number of Yugoslav and Italian pro-Yugoslav Partisans, and that normal Italian administration had not yet been sufficiently well organized to be effective.
In December 1945 the CCS authorized retention of Udine until the peace treaty, but directed AMG to notify the Italian Government and to announce publicly that it was retained solely for military reasons and not because Udine was considered a disputed region.
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 Aquileia, Udine - Friuli Venezia Giulia - Italy
In 452 it was destroyed by Attila, though it continued to exist until the Lombard invasion of 568.
The seat of the patriarchate of Aquileia had been transferred to Udine in 1238, but returned in 1420 when Venice annexed the territory of Udine.
It was finally suppressed in 1751 when the sees of Udine and Gorizia (Gorz) were established.
www.italyworldclub.com /friuli/udine/aquileia.htm   (458 words)

  
 agriturismo villa coren, friuli venezia giulia, udine
In the large building that used to be the cellar and barn we have made six apartments sleeping from 2 to 5 persons.
The apartments are well equipped for a pleasant stay in the country, only ten minutes from Udine and Cividale del Friuli.
The apartments for 4 are structured on two floors: on the ground floor there is a large sitting room with a well-equipped kitchen, a wood fire, comfortable armchairs, direct-dial telephone (suitable for modem) and satellite TV.
www.agriturismoitaly.it /english/regione/friuliveneziagiulia/villacoren.htm   (214 words)

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