Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca
The Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca (German: Gefürstete Grafschaft Görz und Gradisca; Italian: Principesca Contea di Gorizia e Gradisca; Slovene: Poknežena grofija Goriška in Gradiščanska), historically sometimes shortened to and spelled "Goritz", was a crown land of the Habsburg dynasty within the Austrian Littoral on the Adriatic Sea, in what is now a multilingual border area of Italy and Slovenia. It was named for its two major urban centers, Gorizia and Gradisca d'Isonzo.
Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca Gefürstete Grafschaft Görz und Gradisca | |||||||||||
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Map of the Austrian Littoral, comprising the Imperial Free City of Trieste (yellow), the Margraviate of Istria (green), and the Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca (orange) | |||||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806) Crown land of the Austrian Empire (until 1867) Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary | ||||||||||
| Capital | Gorizia | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Slovene, Italian, Friulian, German | ||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||||
| Emperor of Austria | |||||||||||
• 1848–1916 | Franz Joseph I | ||||||||||
• 1916–1918 | Karl I | ||||||||||
| Landeshauptmann | |||||||||||
• 1870–1877 | Francesco Coronini | ||||||||||
• 1877–1883 | Luigi Pajer de Monriva | ||||||||||
• 1883–1899 | Franz Graf von Coronini-Cronberg | ||||||||||
• 1899–1913 | Luigi Pajer de Monriva | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Modern history | ||||||||||
• Established | 4 March 1754 | ||||||||||
| 10 September 1919 | |||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| 1910 | 2,918 km2 (1,127 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1910 | 260,721 | ||||||||||
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