Fiume (disambiguation)
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Fiume is the Italian
word for river
and can refer to:
Geography
Other
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
word for river
River
A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...
and can refer to:
Geography
- Fiume, the historical name of Rijeka, a city in Croatia
- Free State of FiumeFree State of FiumeThe Free State of Fiume was an independent free state which existed between 1920 and 1924. Its territory of comprised the city of Fiume and rural areas to its north, with a corridor to its west connecting it to Italy.-History:Fiume gained autonomy for the first time in 1719 when it was proclaimed...
, a historic state that existed between 1920 and 1924 - Fiume VenetoFiume VenetoFiume Veneto is a comune in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 90 km northwest of Trieste and about 7 km southeast of Pordenone...
, a municipality in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia - Fiume di GirgentiFiume di Girgenti.The Fiume di Girgenti, or San Leone is a short river formed to the south of the ancient Sicilian city of Agrigento by the confluence of two streams: the Sant’Anna and San Biago . It follows a course of about a mile before entering the sea at San Leone, a suburb of the modern Agrigento....
, a river of Sicily rising from hills south of the city of Agrigento - Fiume Grande, a river of northern Sicily flowing into the Tyrrhenian sea near Palermo
Other
- Italian cruiser FiumeItalian cruiser FiumeThe Fiume was a Zara class heavy cruiser of the Italian Regia Marina. Her name derives from the city of Fiume and her motto Sic indeficienter virtus derived from the city's motto since 1659, Indeficienter-Service:...
of the Italian Regia Marina - Gloria Fiume, an old Italian football association now renamed HNK Rijeka
- Salvatore FiumeSalvatore FiumeSalvatore Fiume was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, writer and stage designer. His works are kept in some of the most important museums in the world, among which the Vatican Museums, the Hermitage of Saint Petersburg, the Museum of Modern Art of New York, the Pushkin Museum of Moscow and...
, an Italian painter, sculptor, architect and writer