Izola
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Izola (Italian Isola d'Istria) is a town and a municipality with the same name in Southwestern Slovenia along the coast of Adriatic Sea.
Originally an island on the North Adriatic (hence, the name, which means island), it was first settled by the Romans, who built a port at Haliaetum, on Simons Bay, to the south west of the current city.
During the Middle Ages, it was controlled by the Venetian Republic.
Its economic base was seriously hurt when Trieste (Trst in Slovene) became the premier port in the region and a plague struck in the 16th century.
During the French occupation in the early 19th century, the city walls were torn down and used to fill in the channel that separated the island of Izola from the mainland.
External links
- Izola (http://www.izola.si/), official page of municipality (in Slovene)
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