Free Territory of Trieste
Overview
City-state
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situated in Central Europe
Central Europe
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between northern Italy
Italy
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and Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
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, created by the United Nations Security Council
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in the aftermath of World War II
World War II
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and provisionally administered by an appointed military governor commanding the peacekeeping
Peacekeeping
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United Nations Protection Force
United Nations Protection Force
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forces stationed there.
The Free Territory was decided on 10 February 1947 by a protocol of the Italian Peace Treaty in order to accommodate an ethnically and culturally mixed population in a neutral independent country.
