Origin of the name:
The name of this region points out a composition of two zones of geographical lists, all but two derive from the Latin ‘gens Iulia ' (the family to which Giulio Cesare belongs). Friuli originally ‘Forum Julii ' was the name of a commercial center (forum means market), built by the Romans in the actual city of Cividale. The name of the city then been extended to the whole region. Instead Venice Giulia is a recent name that honors the Venetian inhabitants and the ‘Gens Iulia '. After the first World War the territory of the region belonged to Veneto, together with some zones of what is now ex-Yugoslavia. After the second world war nine regions of Venice Giulia were lost andincluding Friuli with what had remained of the actual Region on which it was founded.
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