Fianona-Plomin: Story of a country and a family

By Guido Cavallo

It is a synthetic story of a country in Istria (now Croatia), the place of my birth several years ago. Historical description from Roman times to today (abandoned town). I intertwine with some parts of the history of my maternal family. Written in English for its diffusion in the world of the "diaspora-emigration" of the descendants of those who lived and left Istria after the end of the Second World War.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Youcanprint
• Release date: Mar 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9791220326735

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FIANONA (heraldic notes)

Civic symbol taken from the table Coats of arms of the localities of Istria compiled by Carlo Baxa (Collection of the Historical Research Center of Rovinj). Municipality in Istria, consisting of the capital and the hamlets of Chersano, Cosiliano (Cosliaco), Malacrasca, lessenovich, Villanova, Berdo and Cepich, with a pop. Of 5434 inhabitants and an area of 11,138 hectares, of which 10.111 subject to tax as productive. (...) The town, located at the foot of Mt Maggiore, is poor; the soil is not very fertile; the people live in part of pastoralism. The town rises on a hill (m. 168) on the Varesina canal, in the Kvarner Gulf; and not far away has its own port which serves as a stopover for a lot of firewood and construction wood, coming from the interior of Istria. of the political district of Pazin and of the diocese of Parenzo. In ancient times it was a place of some importance; from him the Kvarner was called Sinus Flanaticus. Under the Romans, although belonging to Liburnia, it obtained the jus italicum, thus being equated to the Italic municipalities He submitted to Venice, at the same time as Labin, in 1420. Within its current land two important feudal castles were built in the Middle Ages: Cosliaco, once called Wachsenstein in German, became the center of a vast lordship and belonged to the Patriarchs of Aquileia, later to the Counts of Gorizia and the Dukes of Austria, who gave it to powerful vassals ; and Chersano who gave the name to a notable baronial family, which went extinct in the century. XVII. This castle still exists today, while only a few ruins remain of the first, which stood on an almost inaccessible cliff near Lake Arsa . (AA. VV., La Nuova, 731-732). The Municipality of Fianona always maintained its original coat of arms adopted around 1000 (?). It consisted of a shield, streaked blue on a yellow field. The banner was in blue fabric, with gold and silver embroidery, mixed with colored silk, fine golden yarn, golden fringe, cord with tricolor bows in fringe, on rod with nickel-plated brass sleeper and spear. The center of the banner, above the coat of arms, in golden yarn bore the inscription: Comune di Fianona (of Istria) . (GERBINI, Fianona, 155). See BAXA, Libro ; GERBINI, Note, 157. Samnite shield .

FIANONA- PLOMIN (the name)

Fianona, whose suffix in ona is characteristic of the places inhabited by the Illyrian populations, is indisputably an ancient name. Its name persisted even in Roman times, albeit with the diction Fianona and from this also derived the Sinus Flanaticus, the current channel between Cres and the Liburnian coast, now the Faresina channel, where the Quarnero widens, up to Capo Promontore. Fianona kept its name even in later times and came down to us to remember that its inhabitants were the Flanati, of Liburnian origin. When Fianona fell under the Roman yoke, in the 2nd century BC. C, was a thriving city because it was already important in prehistoric times. At that time it was served by the Roman road that led from Trieste to Pola and then went up to Fianona. During the imperial era, the lower city developed on the deepest edge of the inlet

Fianona could have had its own museum, certainly a lapidary of considerable historical interest that would have allowed us to conveniently honor the past of our country. In this way