Editing Istria (section)

===SFR Yugoslavia (1947–1991)===
{{See also|Istrian–Dalmatian exodus|Morgan Line}}
[[File:Italians leave Pola.jpg|thumb|[[Istrian Italians]] leave [[Pula]] in 1947 during the [[Istrian–Dalmatian exodus]]]]
After the end of [[World War II]], Istria was ceded to [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], except for a small part in the northwest corner that formed Zone B of the provisionally independent [[Free Territory of Trieste]]; Zone B was under Yugoslav administration and after the ''[[de facto]]'' dissolution of the Free Territory in 1954 it was also incorporated into Yugoslavia. Only the small town of [[Muggia]], near [[Trieste]], being part of Zone A remained with Italy.<ref name="Pizzi">Katia Pizzi, [https://books.google.com/books?id=-bGYecgxhusC&pg=PA25 ''A city in search of an author: the literacy identity of Trieste''], pg. 23, Sheffield Academic Press (2002), {{ISBN|1-84127-284-1}}</ref>

The events of the period are visible in [[Pula]]. The city, located on the southernmost tip of the Istrian peninsula, had an [[Istrian Italians|Istrian Italian]] majority. Between December 1946 and September 1947, a large proportion of the city's inhabitants were [[Istrian exodus|forced to emigrate to Italy]].<ref name="Pizzi"/> Most of them left in the immediate aftermath of the signing of the [[Paris Peace Treaties, 1947|Paris Peace Treaty]] on February 10, 1947 which granted Pula and the greater part of Istria to Yugoslavia.