Pola, Hafenstadt#
Pola (today Pula, Croatia), seaport in Istria, it was founded by the Romans in 178 B.C. as "Pietas Iulia" (Roman amphitheatre); in 1148 it fell to Venice, in 1797 to Austria; after Austria lost Venice between 1857 and 1918, Pola became the central war port of the k. u. k. Naval Forces ( Navy), which established an imperial dockyard and arsenal on Olive Island. Pola belonged to Italy from 1919 onward, the naval arsenal was continued under the name "Cantiere navale di scoglio olivi"; from 1946 onward under Yugoslav rule, the former k. u. k. naval arsenal becoming the "Uljanik" dock yard; today under the same name as a Croatian state-owned enterprise.