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The March of Istria (or Margraviate of Istria / ˈɪstriə /) was originally a Carolingian frontier march covering the Istrian peninsula and surrounding territory conquered by Charlemagne 's son Pepin of Italy in 789. After 1364, it was the Istrian province of the Habsburg monarchy, the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary .
The Margraviate (or March, also Margravate) of Istria was originally a Carolingian frontier march ( a border region similar to a frontier) covering the Istrian peninsula and surrounding territory conquered by Charlmagne's son Pepin of Italy in 789. The margraviate was created in 799.
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Since the mid-11th century, Istria was a separate markgraviate, given in hereditary feud to various families of noblemen by German emperors, the dukes of Carinthia, Merano and Bavaria. The German emperor Henry IV nominally assigned the remaining march to the Patriarchate of Aquileia.
It was Holy Roman Emperor Henry III who divided the march of Verona from Carinthia and created two new marches from it - Carniola and Istria. Thanks to ties forged through marriage, Poppo, count of Weimar-Orlamünde in Thuringia , was appointed margrave of both marches.
The march of Carniola on the eastern slope of the Julian Alps probably dates back to the late ninth century, when it was formed alongside the marches of Carinthia, Istria, and Pannonia and was especially susceptible to Magyar raids. In 952, Carniola was placed under the authority of the Dukes of Bavaria, as were Carinthia, Istria, and Friuli.
Ulrich was not the first margrave with jurisdictions in Istria – Margrave Winther preceded him by more than a century –, but he was the first to be dubbed “Istrian margrave,” or “the margrave of Istria” and his region “March Istria” or “Istrian march.”147 These expressions do not suddenly appear because the Peninsula became ...
Then, in 1999, an Istrian hunter named Giancarlo Zigante and his dog unearthed a white truffle weighing a whopping 2.86 pounds, the largest ever found at the time. Zigante listed his find in ...
