THE ADEIATIC PEOVINCES. 



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Towns, 



A LARGE city could not fall to spring up near the point where the roads from 

 the Danube and across the Alps debouch upon the Adriatic. In the time of the 

 Romans this city was Aquilcja, which numbered its inhabitants by hundreds of 



Fig. 35.— Trieste. 

 Scale 1 : 100,000. 



u® J(>' E.of Poi'is 





13° SoEofGp 



2 Miles. 



thousands, but was destroyed by the Huns in 452. Although subsequently the 

 residence of the patriarchs, the city never recovered, for not only had the rival 

 towns of Venice and Trieste grown into importance, but its environs, owing to a 

 subsidence of the land, had been converted into a pestiferous swamp. It is now 



