County of Gorizia and Gradisca

Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca
Gefürstete Grafschaft Görz und Gradisca
State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806) Crown land of the Austrian Empire (until 1867) Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary
1754–1919
Flag Coat of arms
Map of the Austrian Littoral, comprising the Imperial Free City of Trieste (red), the Margravate of Istria (purple), and the Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca (green)
Capital		Gorizia
Languages		Slovene, Italian, Friulian, German
Religion		Roman Catholic
Government		Principality
Emperor of Austria
•	1848–1916	Franz Joseph I
•	1916–1918	Karl I
Landeshauptmann
•	1870–1877	Francesco Coronini
•	1877–1883	Luigi Pajer de Monriva
•	1883–1899	Franz Graf von Coronini-Cronberg
•	1899–1913	Luigi Pajer de Monriva
Historical era		Modern history
•	Established	4 March 1754
•	Treaty of Saint-Germain	10 September 1919
Area
•	1880	2,918 km² (1,127 sq mi)
Population
•	1880 est.	211,000
Density		72.3 /km²  (187.3 /sq mi)
•	1910 est.	260,721
Density		89.3 /km²  (231.4 /sq mi)
Preceded by Succeeded by County of Görz Gradisca d'Isonzo Julian March

The Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca (German: Gefürstete Grafschaft Görz und Gradisca; Italian: Principesca Contea di Gorizia e Gradisca; Slovene: Poknežena grofija Goriška in Gradiščanska) was a crown land of the Habsburg dynasty within the Austrian Littoral on the Adriatic Sea, in what is now a multilingual border area of Italy and Slovenia. It was named for its two major urban centers, Gorizia and Gradisca d'Isonzo.

The province stretched along the Soča/Isonzo River, from its source at Mt. Jalovec in the Julian Alps down to the Gulf of Trieste near Monfalcone. In the northwest, the Predil Pass led to the Duchy of Carinthia, in the northeast Mts. Mangart, Razor and Triglav marked the border with the Duchy of Carniola (Upper Carniola).

In the west, Mts. Kanin and Matajur stood on the border with the Friulian region, which until the 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio was part of the Republic of Venice, from 1815 onwards belonged to the Austrian Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia and finally to the re-established Kingdom of Italy from 1866. In the south the province bordered on the territory of the Imperial Free City of Trieste and the Margraviate of Istria.