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6 eras · 1077–2026 · 183 places

Friuli and Gorizia — Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia

Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia, Trieste. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1077–1420 Patriarchate of Aquileia and the County of Gorizia Archivio di Stato di Udine — on Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Gorizia · Archivio di Stato di Pordenone · Antenati

The Holy Roman Emperor recognised the territorial powers of the Patriarchate of Aquileia in 1077, and by the twelfth century the County of Gorizia was independent.
1420–1797 Venetian Friuli (Gorizia and Trieste remain Habsburg) Archivio di Stato di Udine — on Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Pordenone · Archivio di Stato di Gorizia · Antenati

Friuli became Venetian in 1420. Gorizia came under Habsburg dominance in 1500, and Trieste had done so in 1382.
1797–1805 Habsburg Monarchy (Campo Formio, 1797) Archivio di Stato di Udine — on Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Gorizia · Antenati

The Treaty of Campo Formio ended Venetian rule and gave Friuli to the Habsburg Monarchy.
1805–1815 Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy Archivio di Stato di Udine — on Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Gorizia · Antenati

The Peace of Pressburg in 1805 transferred Friuli to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.
1815–1866 Austrian Empire — Lombardy-Venetia and the Austrian Littoral Archivio di Stato di Udine — on Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Gorizia · Archivio di Stato di Trieste · Antenati

Austria held the region until the war of 1866.
1866–2026 Italy (western Friuli from 1866; Gorizia and Trieste later) Archivio di Stato di Udine — on Antenati · Archivio di Stato di Gorizia · Archivio di Stato di Pordenone · Archivio di Stato di Trieste · Antenati

The Treaty of Vienna of 3 October 1866 gave only western Friuli to Italy, so the eastern part of this ring stayed Austrian longer.

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

See the whole span, 1077–2026, on the map →

The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.

183 places on this ground

258 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

Ranked with the regional ones first — a collection for a province is usually a better lead than a national index, though the national index is often where a name is actually written down. A free account opens the images.

…and 198 more.

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