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The
municipality of Izola is in the northwestern part of Istria
and is a part of the Koper Littoral. The territory has the
shape of a triangle, which borders the municipality of Koper
in the east, the municipality of Piran in the south and west,
and the sea in the north. It has a Meditteranean climate
with mild winters and hot summers.
The settlements of Izola are Baredi, Cetore, Dobrava, Izola,
Jagodje, Korte, Malija, Nožed and Šared . The municipality
is divided in 5 parts (Staro mesto, Haliaetum, Livade,
Jagodje-Dobrava, Korte). The highest point is the Malija
Hill.
Municipal festival is celebrated on 11 July, the day a large
number of men joined partisans.
The coat of arms has the shape of a shield and it represents
a flying dove with an olive branch in its beak (according to
legend) and in the background a blue sky and a yellow
semicircle, which symbolizes the island. The flag is blue
with the municipality’s coat of arms in the middle.
The name Izola in Italian (Isola) means an island. It
connected with the mainland around 1800.
Izola (
pronunciation (help·info)) (Italian: Isola d'Istria) is an
old fishing city and a municipality in southwestern
Slovenia on the Adriatic coast of the Istrian peninsula. Its
name originates from the Italian Isola, which means island.
An ancient Roman port and settlement known as Haliaetum
stood to the southwest of the present town as early as the
2nd
century BC. The town of Izola was established on a small
island by refugees from Aquileia in the 7th century . The
coastal
areas of Istria came under Venetian influence in the 9th
century. The settlement was first mentioned in writing as
Insula in
a Venetian document entitled Liber albus in 932AD. It became definitely the territory of the Republic of Venice in
1267,
and the centuries of Venetian rule left a strong and
enduring mark on the region. The Venetian part of the
peninsula passed
to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1797 with
the Treaty of Campo Formio, until the period of Napoleonic
rule
from 1805 to 1813 when Istria became part of the Illyrian
provinces of the Napoleonic Empire. After this short period,
during
which Izola's walls were torn down and used to fill in the
channel that separated the island from the mainland, the
newly
established Austrian Empire ruled Istria until November
1918. Then Istria became part of the Kingdom of Italy,
until
Italian capitulation in September 1943, whereupon control
passed to Germany. Izola was liberated by a naval unit from
Koper
at the end of April 1945. After the end of World War II,
Izola was part of Zone B of the provisionally independent
Free
Territory of Trieste; after the de facto dissolution of the
Free Territory in 1954 it was incorporated into Slovenia,
then a
part of Yugoslavia. The newly defined Italo-Yugoslav
border saw the migration of many people from one side to the
other.
In Izola's case, many Italian speakers chose to leave, and
in their place Slovenian-speaking people from neighbouring
villages settled in the town.
