Trsat
Sign in to savethumb|right|300px|View of Trsat from WSW, from Rijeka mountain area. thumb|right|300px|View of Rijeka from Trsat Castle thumb|Rijeka as seen from Trsat Castle Trsat (, ) is part of the city of Rijeka, Croatia, with a historic castle or fortress in a strategic location and several historic churches, in one of which the Croatian noble Prince Vuk Krsto Frankopan is buried. Trsat is a steep hill, 138 m high, rising over the gorge of the Rječina river, about a kilometre away from the sea; strategically significant from the earliest times right up to the 17th century, it is today a major Christian p
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16 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Important Sites
- Trsat Castle
- The Shrine of Our Lady of Trsat
- The Trsat stairway
- Education
- University of Rijeka campus
- Primary education
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- Dialectal literature
- History
- External links
thumb|right|300px|View of Trsat from WSW, from Rijeka mountain area. thumb|right|300px|View of Rijeka from Trsat Castle thumb|Rijeka as seen from Trsat Castle Trsat (, ) is part of the city of Rijeka, Croatia, with a historic castle or fortress in a strategic location and several historic churches, in one of which the Croatian noble Prince Vuk Krsto Frankopan is buried. Trsat is a steep hill, 138 m high, rising over the gorge of the Rječina river, about a kilometre away from the sea; strategically significant from the earliest times right up to the 17th century, it is today a major Christian pilgrimage centre and home to a statue of Pope John Paul II who came to Trsat as a Pilgrim in 2003. Today, the University of Rijeka's newly constructed campus lies in the western part of Trsat.
==History== thumb|left|180px|Hill fort in Trsat district In the time before the Illyrians there was a fortified settlement and then the Iapodian fortress of Tarsatica. Following this there was a Roman looking point, and from the 13th century it was the property of the Counts of Krk. Later it belonged to the Frankopans. Together with Vinodol, the Croatian-Hungarian King Andrija II presented Trsat to Vid II of Krk.