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DESCRIPTION OF FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA

The name of this region indicates a composition of two distinguished geographic zones, but all and two derive from the Latin ‘gens Iulia’ (the family to which Giulio belongs Cesar). Friuli originally ‘Forum Julii’ it was the name of a center trades them (forum means market), constructed by the Roman, the actual city of Civedale. The name of the city then extended to all the region. Venice Julia instead is a recent name that remembers the Veneti inhabitants and ‘Gens the Iulia’. After the first World war in the actual territory region made part of the Veneto, with to some zones of the formerones. After the second world war the nine got lost decimate of the Venice Julia and re-uniting the Friuli with what it was remained of the same one, the actual was instituted Region.
The northern part of the Friuli Venice Julia is formed from the Alps the also minimal Carniche and even if, from a short feature of the Alps Giulie. From the Mount Step Cross of Comelico until the Saddleback of Camporosso, the Alps Carniche extend, which with their wall of protection are risen beyond i 2000 m. The Alps Giulie, instead, continue from the Saddleback of Camporosso until to the Step of Vrata, to north of River. The higher top is the Jof Montasio the which appartiente one only in part to Italy while the rest is found in Slovenia. The Tagliamento divides the Alps from the PreAlps that are less high, much full of rocks and with little vegetation. The Step of I fused some and the Step of Predil connects Italy to the Slovenia; the Mount Step Carnico Cross door in Austria.
The Friuli Venice Julia is the region more north-oriental of the Italian territory. The surface goes from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea. To north the Friuli Venice Julia confines with Austria, to east with Slovenia (former-Iugoslavia), to south with Adriatic Sea and the west we find the Tagliamento and the Livenza that divide it from Veneto.