Trieste, an ancient town and still the first seaport of Austro-Hungary; at the head of the NE. arm of the Adriatic, 214 m. SW. of Vienna; an imperial free city since 1849; consists of an old and a new town on the level fronting the sea; has a fine harbour and extensive manufactures, embracing shipbuilding, rope-making, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 158,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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