Julian March - The Term's Conceptualization

The Term's Conceptualization

Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, a linguist and amateur geographer motivated by his Italian patriotism, coined the term based on applying the ancient Roman empire borders of Roman province of Italia to the 19th-century political geography of the area. He subdivided the ancient Roman region Venetia et Histria into three new regions:

• Euganean Venetia (Venezia Euganea), comprising the current Veneto region of Italy and most of the territory of Friuli (roughly corresponding to the current Italian provinces of Udine and Pordenone);
• Tridentine Venetia (Venezia Tridentina), comprising the current Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol;
• Julian Venetia (Venezia Giulia), more or less corresponding to the current Italian provinces of Gorizia and Trieste, the Slovenian Littoral and Croatian Istria county, and the town of Rijeka (Fiume)

The latter was named after the Julian Alps, forming the new north-eastern border of Italy, limited by the lower flow of the Soča river and the Gulf of Trieste in the west, the Julian Alps in the north and north-east, and Carniola and Liburnia to the east, thus including all of the Kras Plateau and most of the Istrian peninsula.