Pula (city)

Pula [ˈpuːlâ] (Italian Pola, German becomes outdated to Polei and Slovenian Pulj) the largest city of the peninsula is Istrien in the northwest of Croatia with 58.594 inhabitants ( conditions 2001 ). Pula liesclose of the south point of the istrischen peninsula and belongs to the catholic Diözese Poreč Pula.

Table of contents 1 population 2 history 3 traffic and tourism 4 objects of interest 5 partnership between cities of 6 sons and daughters of the city 7 literature 8 Web on the left of

population

the predominant majority of the populationplace with 71,65 per cent the Croats.

history

Pula can look back on one approximately 3.000-jährige history.

Among emperors Augustus the Amphitheater was built, which is today one the main marriage worthynesses of the city. Beside the Amphitheater it gives from thataugusteischen time Rome and August US temple, the Stadtmauer with gates, received in parts, and the remnants of two theatres.

In the time of Austria Hungary the city was the naval port of the monarchy. Also those were stationed the German war navy here beside the submarines of the Austrian-Hungarian war navy.In the astronomy it is well-known by Johann Palisa, which discovered the first 29 of its 123 Asteroiden at the there observatory from 1874 to 1880. The naval observatory was connected with the hydraulicgraphic office.

After k.u.k. Censuses 1900 lived 24,056 Italians, 1,543 Slovenes in Pola, 10,388 Kroatenund 4,654 Germans.

After the First World War Pula was occupied by Italian troops and came by the peace treaties just like completely Istrien to Italy.

At the end of the Second World War the city was taken in May 1945 by Yugoslav troops and becametogether with Istrien to a part of Croatia, a situation, which was confirmed in the peace treaty of 1947. Together with completely Croatia Pula was until 1991 part of Yugoslavia.

traffic and tourism

close one of the city is the national park Brijuni consisting of fourteen islands.

Pula is the terminator point of the cycle track EuroVelo 9, which runs from Danzig at the Baltic Sea out by Poland , Tschechien , Austria , Slovenia and Croatia.

In Pula in the year 1870 the first navigation museum of the world was furnished.

Pula has an international airport.

objects of interest

one the main marriage worthynesses of the city is the Amphitheater, which was built among emperors Augustus. It has a size of 133x105 meters, offered about 23000 humans place and is thereby one the largest Amphitheatern built by the Romans. Inlarge parts up to the original height of 32.5 meters received front is likewise augusteisch in newer opinion.

Impressing, if also not as largely as the Amphitheater, the Triumphbogen of the family Sergius is, between 29-27 the v. Chr. to the memory of the victory Octavians in that Battle was built by Actium. Worth seeing is also the Augustustempel (2 v. Chr-14 n. Chr).

partnership between cities

the city Pula maintains 8 since that. September 1971 a partnership between cities with Trier (Rhineland-Palatinate).

sons and daughters of the city

• wolf ofAichelburg, Romanian-German writer
• Franz Karl Ginzkey, Austrian officer, poet and writer
• Karl Albrecht of having castle Lorraine, Austrian and Polish military and landowner
• Herman Potočnik, Slovenian space travel theoretician
• Alida Valli, Italian actress

literature

• Günther Fischer: The Roman Pola. An archaeologicalUrban history. Bavarian academy of the sciences, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7696-0105-X (papers of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences/philosophical-historical class, N.F. ; Bd. 110)

Web on the left of

• official Web operational readiness level
• city plan Pula, information for tourist
• tourism federation Pula

coordinates: 44° 52 ′ 18 "n. Break, 13° 50 ′ 52 " o. L.