Key facts
- Status
- Independent territory under direct responsibility of the United Nations Security Council
- Capital and largest city
- Trieste
- Official languages
- Italian · Slovene · Serbo-Croatian · English ( only for administrative purposes )
- Religion
- Catholicism , Serbian Orthodoxy , Judaism
- Demonym
- Triestine
- 1945 first
- Bernard Freyberg
- 1951 1954 last
- John Winterton
- 1945 1947 first
- Dušan Kveder
- Legislature
- People's Assembly
- Historical era
- Cold War
- Trieste operation
- 30 April 1945
- Unsc resolution 16
- 10 January 1947
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Today part ofCroatia Slovenia Italy
The Free Territory of Trieste was an independent territory in Southern Europe between Italy and Yugoslavia, facing the north part of the Adriatic Sea, under direct responsibility of the United Nations Security Council in the aftermath of World War II. It existed for seven years.