the city and province situated on the coastal border of the upper Adriatic was once the main seaport of the Austro- Hungarian Empire. Its cuisine has Austrian, Hungarian, Jewish, Slavic and Oriental roots.

Trieste (Italian: Trieste; Slovenian and Croatian: Trst; German and Friulian: Triest; Hungarian: Trieszt; Latin: Tergeste; Serbian: Трст or Trst) is a city and port in northeastern Italy right on the border with Slovenia. Trieste is located at the head of the Gulf of Trieste on the Adriatic Sea. With a population of 207,069 (2001) it is capital of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trieste province.