City and harbor of Fiume. Situated on an inlet of the Adriatic Sea, the city had several harbors and extensive docks, with an important railway extending eastward. Before the First World War the exports of grain, flour, sugar, lumber, and horses from Fiume amounted in value to about $30,000,000 a year.
Croatia: Free State of Fiume or Rijeka, which existed between 1920 and 1924, photographed following World War I.
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Learning Extension: Task students with researching what became of Fiume. What signs of its former autonomy exist today?
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