!!!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.


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