Labinština
Labin was the head township of the Labinština or Agro Albonese under the Roman Empire, during the Venice Republic between 1365 and 1797, the Austrian rule between 1814-1918 and many other occupations by foreign armies.
[2] In ancient times it was the western border of the Liburnians, and the major settlements were Alvona (Labin) and Flanona (Plomin).
In the first half of the XIV century the Patriarch of Aquileia ordered a statute for the city of Albona, published in 1341, including in it was the description of the borders of its territory.
This lake was being fed by the Planinski masiv Učka mountain range located near Opatija (Abbazia) and the eastern coast of Istria.
The Romans used this mountain range water source, and the Cepich lake, to feed major cities, from Labin on the east side to Pula (Pola) in the south.
The city of Pula (Pola) on the southern tip of Istria was the summer home of the Emperors and Caesar family who also built the Amphitheater, also known as the Arena.
The arrival was of enormous proportions, which is why the road leading from Labin via Pazin to Poreč was named Slavic cesta (lat.
The 10th century the Byzantine Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in his De Administrando Imperio named Albona as "Castron Albonos".
It fell under Venetian rule at the beginning of the 15th century, and in the north it bordered on feudal lordships as part of the Pazin principality.
During the Venetian periods, Istria was divided into farming fractions or townships (comuni) each having a chief town called capo-comune.
Unfortunately, due to the counter-reformation, he was forced to live most of his life in exile in Germany where he became the undisputed leader of the conservative wing of the Lutheran movement after the death of Luther.
The Littoral included the cities of: Trieste, Gorizia and Gradisca, Fiume, the Istrian peninsula, the Kvarner (Quarnero) Islands, and Croatia that was not under military control.
The locals also cut trees and sold timber to buyers who came on flat bottom boats called Trabakul.
The following ports on the Labinstina [8] coast in the Sea of Quarnero were frequented by ships from the major cities like Trieste, Venezia, among a few.
In March and April 1921, the town was the scene of a miners' strike which quickly grew into an anti-fascist rebellion, considered to be the first of its kind, and the declaration of the short-lived Labin Republic.
After the collapse of Fascist Italy in 1943, the city was occupied by the German Wehrmacht and was part of the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral.
A large number of citizens from Labinština took part in the People's Liberation Struggle during World War II.
It is an undulating plateau bordered by deeply incised river valleys (Raša and Krapanski potok) and a steep sea shore.
The majority of land around Labin, Raša and Nedešćina, made of karst limestones are of Cretaceous, Eocene age.
[11] The highest point excluding Učka massif is Goli Vrh 539 m (1,768.37 ft) above sea level located south of Labin.
After Lake Čepić was drained and the southern part of the Raša Valley and Krapanski Potok was reclaimed, conditions were created for extensive agriculture.
[11] Language Labinjonska Cakavica, one of the most interesting and oldest indigenous Istrian dialects spoken in and around the town of Labin.
It differs from the usual Chakavian (with typical pronoun "ča") because it lacks most palatals, with other parallel deviations called "tsakavism" (cakavizam).
