Kronika's thematic issue - a concise history of Trieste

Abstract

Venturing across the border for the first time, the entire thematic issue of Kronika focuses on Trieste and its surroundings – both immediate and more distant, i.e. an area which now forms part of Slovenia, but which historically always constituted the Trieste hinterland. Kronika’s thematic issue on Trieste corresponds with the three-hundredth anniversary of a watershed event in the city’s history – Emperor Charles VI’s proclamation of Trieste (and Rijeka) a free port in 1719, which laid the foundation for its economic and social ascendancy.