Province of Fiume

Province of Fiume
Province of Carnaro
Provincia di Fiume (Italian)
Provincia del Carnaro (Italian)
Province of the Kingdom of Italy
1924–1947
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Location of the province of Fiume in the Kingdom of Italy
CapitalFiume
Area
 • Coordinates45°20′N 14°26′E / 45.333°N 14.433°E / 45.333; 14.433
 
• 1938
1,121.29 km2 (432.93 sq mi)
Population 
• 1938
109,018
Government
Prefect 
• 1924
Gaetano Giardino (first)
• 1943–1945
Alessandro Spalatin (last)
Historical eraInterbellum · World War II
22 February 1924
6–17 April 1941
10 September 1943
10 February 1947
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Free State of Fiume
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Today part ofCroatia
Slovenia

The Province of Fiume (or Province of Carnaro) was a province of the Kingdom of Italy from 1924 to 1943, then under control of the Italian Social Republic and German Wehrmacht from 1943 to 1945. Its capital was the city of Fiume. It took the other name after the Gulf of Carnaro (Golfo del Carnaro).

The province was divided into 13 municipalities and in 1938 had an area of 1,121.29 km2 (432.93 sq mi) with a population of 109,018 inhabitants and a population density of 109 inhabitants per square kilometre (280/sq mi).[1]

  1. ^ Yearbook 1938-General XVI, Intercropping Italian Tourist , Milan, 1938 p. 661