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UDINE , a See also:town and. archiepiscopal see of See also:Venetia, See also:Italy, See also:capital of the See also:province of Udine, situated between the Gulf of See also:Venice and the See also:Alps, 84 m. by See also:rail N.E. of Venice, 450 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop: (1906), 25,217 (town); 40,627 (See also:commune). The town walls were in the See also:main demolished towards the end of the 19th See also:century. The old See also:castle, at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the See also:residence of the patriarchs of See also:Aquileia, and now used as a See also:prison, was erected by Giovanni See also:Fontana in 1517 in See also:place of the older one destroyed by an See also:earthquake in 1511. The Romanesque See also:cathedral contains some interesting examples of native See also:art (by Giovanni See also:Martini da Udine, a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Raphael, and others). The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of S. Maria della Purity has frescoes by Giovanni Battista and Domenico See also:Tiepolo. In the See also:principal square stands the town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, built in 144$-1457 in the Venetian-See also:Gothic See also:style, and skilfully restored after a See also:fire in 1876; opposite is a See also:clock See also:tower resembling that of the Piazza di See also:San Marco at Venice. In the square is a statue of See also:Peace, erected in See also:commemoration of the peace of Campo Formio (1796), which lies 5 m. to the W.S.W. The archiepiscopal See also:palace and Museo Civico, as well as the municipal buildings, have some valuable paintings. The leading See also:industry of Udine is See also:silk-See also:spinning, but it also possesses manufactures of See also:linen, See also:cotton, hats and See also:paper, tanneries and See also:sugar refineries, and has a considerable See also:trade in See also:flax, See also:hemp, &c. See also:Branch See also:railways See also:lead to Cividale del See also:Friuli and S. Giorgio di Nogaro, and a See also:steam See also:tramway to S. Daniele del Friuli.
The origin of Udine is uncertain; though it See also:lay on the See also:line of,the Via Iulia See also:Augusta, there is no See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of its existence in See also:Roman times. In the See also:middle ages it became a flourishing and populous See also:city; in 1222 or 1238 the See also:patriarch Berthold made it the capital of Friuli, and in 1420 it became Venetian. In 1752 it became an archbishopric. (T.
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