The Raša ( Latin : Arsia , Italian: Arsa ) in Croatian Istria is a major river of Croatia 's Istria County . It is 23 kilometres (14 mi) long, and its basin covers an area of 279 km (108 sq mi). Its mouth is in the long ria of Raša Bay ( Croatian : Raški zaljev , formerly Italian : Porto d'Arsia ), which is a drowned river valley scoured out when world sea levels fell, then drowned by the rising waters of the post-glacial era. The Raša rises in springs near Pićan and flows south through a steep-sided valley before opening into the head of the Adriatic Sea . The river, although short in length, has an ancient history as a border.
11-583: Arsia may signify: Arsia (river) , in Croatian Istria, now known as Raša Arsia Mons , a volcano on Mars Silva Arsia , a forest near Republican Rome Arsia , one of the evil customs in medieval Catalonia Arsia , Latin name of today's Ersa, Haute-Corse , a commune in Corsica Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
22-421: A Late Gothic stone tabernacle, and wooden baroque sculptures. According to the 2021 census, its population was 2,491, with 218 living in the town proper. The village of Sutivanac is the largest in the municipality. It had 2,721 people in 2011, 75% of whom were Croats . The town of Barban itself had a population of 221. An equestrian tournament, known as Trka na prstenac and very similar to Sinjska alka ,
33-620: A full Habsburg possession, before being taken over by the Republic of Venice in the 16th century. The Loredan noble family bought Barban from the counts in Pazin in 1535. In the main square, which is reached by passing through Velika Vrata (the Great Gate, 1718), stands the St. Nicholas parish church with baroque altars and paintings by Venetian masters from the 16th-18th centuries,
44-446: Is a small town and municipality in the southern part of eastern Istria , Croatia . The municipality of Barban covers an area of around 100 km and contains 72 villages with a total of 2,491 people. The site of a Bronze Age prehistoric hill fort , human remains have been found on the site that dates back approximately 3,400-4,000 years back. The name Barban appears for the first time in an ecclesiastic document dated 740 A.D. In
55-466: The Middle Ages , the town was fortified while under control of feudal lords from Pazin , and parts of those medieval fortifications can still be seen. In the second half of the 13th century, having been depopulated by the plague in 1312, a small colony of Dalmatians from Finodol settled in the area, brought by the counts of Gorizia . In 1374, upon the death of Albert IV, Count of Pazin, it became
66-723: The Arsia, as it was called in Latin, constituted the border between the Histri , who lived west of its banks, and the Liburni on the coast to the east, with the Iapydes in the upcountry valley behind them. After the Romans conquered the fierce and piratical Histri in 177 BC, the Arsia formed the limes of Roman territory in coastal Istria for a generation, until the gap between the Arsia and
77-605: The crossing of the Arsia; beyond, it continued into Dalmatia as a local road that linked to Via Gemina . In the early 10th century Tomislav of Croatia ruled a state that ran from the Adriatic to the Drava , and from the Raša, as it was now being called, to the Drina . In the 13th century, the territory on the east bank was administered by the counts of Gorizia , while that on the west
88-492: The northernmost Roman outposts in illyria was closed in 129; for long afterwards it divided Italia and its regio X , from Illyricum , according to the divisions ratified by Augustus . The 8th-century Irish monk and geographer Dicuil , following his late Latin sources for the geographical summary De mensura Orbis terrae , gives the northeastern boundary of Italia as flumen Arsia . The Roman road Via Flavia , reaching from Tergeste (Trieste) into Istria came to an end at
99-469: The river in the inner part of the Raška Inlet, was constructed in 1936–1937 as Arsia on drained wetlands to gain arable land for farming and to serve expanding coal mining operations, as part of Mussolini's urban colonization and Italianization of Istria. The village of Barban is the other major settlement near the river. Barban Barban ( Italian : Barbana , Čakavian Barbon , or Brban )
110-458: The title Arsia . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arsia&oldid=1253579404 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Arsia (river) By Roman times,
121-482: Was ruled by the patriarchs of Aquileia . After centuries of Venetian rule over all of Istria to the Raša, the Raša became the border between Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire ; following Napoleon's downfall, Austria gained all of Istria and the river became the border between two Austrian provinces. The planned city of Raša ( Italian : Arsia ), on the tributary Krapanski Potok of
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