Gorizia Landgraves and Formation of the Land along the River Soča and on Karst into the province

Abstract

A special province Gorizia County developed from the dynastic territory of the Gorizia landgraves along the middle stream of the river Soča and on the Karst. It separated from the Friuli county and Aquilean Patriarchate and attained independence. This process based on the feuds and allodia of the Gorizia landgraves and especially on the rights they had as defenders of the Aquilean Church. With systematic and successful policy (1210 Gorizia market-town, 1234 road regalia, 1365 state princes) they founded in the course of time a special province with their own administration, jurisprudence, aristocracy and states.