Editing Trieste (section)

===World War I, annexation to Italy and Fascist era===
{{See also|Battles of the Isonzo|Julian March}}

Italy, in return for entering [[World War I]] on the side of the [[Allies of World War I|Allied Powers]], had been promised substantial territorial gains, which included the former [[Austrian Littoral]] and western [[Inner Carniola]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gspi.unipr.it/sites/st26/files/allegatiparagrafo/25-01-2016/treaty_of_london_1.pdf|title=The Treaty of London was signed on April 26, 1915|access-date=December 22, 2023}}</ref> Italy therefore annexed the city of Trieste at the end of the war, in accordance with the provisions of the 1915 [[Treaty of London (1915)|Treaty of London]] and the Italian-Yugoslav 1920 [[Treaty of Rapallo (1920)|Treaty of Rapallo]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Federzoni |first=Luigi |title=IL TRATTATO DI RAPALLO CON UN'APPENDICE DI DOCUMENTI |publisher=[[Zanichelli]] |location=Bologna |pages=295–300 |language=it}}</ref>

In the late 1920s, following Italian fascists burning down of the Slovene cultural centre in July 1920, the Slovene [[militant anti-fascist]] organisation [[TIGR]] carried out several bomb attacks in the city centre. In 1930 and 1941, two trials of Slovene activists were held in Trieste by the fascist Special Tribunal for the Security of the State. During the 1920s and 1930s, several monumental buildings were built in the [[Fascist architecture|Fascist architectural style]], including the [[University of Trieste]] and the almost {{convert|70|m|2|abbr=on}} tall [[Vittoria Light|Victory Lighthouse]] (Faro della Vittoria), which became a city landmark. The economy improved in the late 1930s, and several large infrastructure projects were carried out.<ref>Angelo Ara, Claudio Magris. ''Trieste. Un'identità di frontiera''. p.56</ref>