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GRADISCA

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 311 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRADISCA , a See also:

town of See also:Austria, in the See also:province of See also:Gorz and Gradisca, ro m. S.W. of Gorz by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 3843, mostly Italians. It is situated on the right See also:bank of the Isonzo and was formerly a strongly fortified See also:place. Its See also:principal See also:industry is See also:silk See also:spinning. Gradisca originally formed See also:part of the margraviate of See also:Friuli, came under the patriarchate of See also:Aquileia in 1028, and in r420 to See also:Venice. Between 1471 and 1481 Gradisca was fortified by the Venetians, but in 1511 they surrendered it to the See also:emperor See also:Maximilian I. In 1647 Gradisca and its territory, including Aquileia and See also:forty-three smaller places, were erected into a See also:separate countship in favour of Johann Anton von See also:Eggenberg, See also:duke of See also:Krumau. On the extinction of his See also:line in 1717, it reverted to Austria, and was completely incorporated with Gorz in 1754. The name was revived by the constitution of 1861, which established the crownland of Gorz and Gradisca.

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