TERGESTE (mod. Trieste, q.v.)

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TERGESTE (mod. Trieste, q.v.) , an ancient city of Istria, 26 m. by road E.S.E. of Aquileia, at the northern extremity of the peninsula of Istria, in a bay at the head of the Adriatic Sea. Its importance was in ancient clays, as now, mainly due to its commerce as the outlet of Pannonia and Dalmatia. It is first mentioned about loo B.C. as a

village

VILLAGE

. In 52 B.C. it was attacked by barbarian tribes from the interior. In 33 B.C.

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

during his Dalmatian wars built a

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

and towers there, as an inscription records; in a medieval copy of it the emperor Frederick III. mentions his own restoration of the city walls for the fourth time in 1470. At this time it probably became a colony, as it certainly was in Pliny's days. It appears to have had an extensive territory assigned to it. The loftily situated cathedral of S. Giusto occupies the site of a Roman temple, some of the walls and columns of which may be seen in the tower Into the facade are built fragments of sepulchral reliefs. The church itself has a curious plan which is due to its having been formed out of two distinct churches

standing

STANDING

side by side, which were united in the 14th century. Each of these is a basilica with ancient columns and mosaics in the

apse

APSE
APSE (Gr. alkir, a fastening, especially the
felloe
- FELLOE
of a wheel; Lat. absis)

. The southern church, S. Giusto, has a central

dome

DOME (Lat domus,
house
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
; Ital. duomo, cathedral)

. The so-called Arco di Riccardo is a half-buried Roman arch with Corinthian pilasters, possibly a triumphal arch, possibly connected with an aqueduct.
The museum contains

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

, mosaic pavements, &c., from the ancient town, of which no remains beyond those mentioned now exist above ground.
See Th. Mommsen in Corp. inscr. Latin. V. (1883), p. 53 sqq.; T. G. Jackson, Dalmatia, Istria and the Quarnero (Oxford, 1887), III., 343; G. Caprini, Trieste (Bergamo, 1906). (T. As.)

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