Facts in brief:
S tip of Istria on Adriatic Sea; was Roman military & naval base; fishing village during Middle Ages; taken by Venetians in 1148; ruled by
Austria in 1797 & by Italy in 1919; assigned to Yugoslavia in 1947.
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