, and approximately 327,000 out of the total population of 1.3 million Slovenes, were subjected to forced
Fascist Italianization. On the map of present-day Slovenia with its traditional regions' boundaries. After they had acquired the
Carniola hinterland in 1335, the Habsburgs gradually took possession of the coastal areas. In the second half of the 14th century, they acquired Postojna and the Upper
Vipava Valley from the
Patriarchate of Aquileia, followed by
Duino and parts of the Karst Plateau. These areas were annexed to Carniola, though they maintained a separate identity well into the Early Modern Age. In 1500 the Habsburgs inherited the comital lands of
Gorizia (Görz), when the last Count
Leonhard of Gorizia died childless. The Habsburg
Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca was established in 1754, it became part of the
Austrian Kingdom of
Illyria in 1816. With the Istrian march and the
Imperial Free City of Trieste, it was re-arranged as the Austrian Littoral
crown land in 1849. At the end of
World War I and the dissolution of
Austria-Hungary in 1918, the area, together with the western part of
Inner Carniola and the
Upper Carniolan municipality of Bela Peč / Weissenfels (later Italianized to Fusine in Valromana, now a
frazione of
Tarvisio), was occupied by the
Italian army. As stipulated in the 1915
London Pact, a quarter of predominantly Slovene ethnic territory and approximately 327,000 Numerous Slovenes emigrated to the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, others fought against Italian rule in the anti-fascist
TIGR organization. After
World War II, according to the 1947
Paris Peace Treaties, the bulk of the region with the upper
Soča (Isonzo) Valley fell to
Yugoslavia. Parts of the area were re-arranged as the
Free Territory of Trieste, while
Italy retained the urban centres of Gorizia and
Gradisca. In 1954 Italy also recovered the main port of
Trieste. As a result, the new urban centres on the Slovenian side of the border developed. ==Gallery==