Fiume, a seaport of Hungary, on the Adriatic, at the rocky entrance of the Fiumara, 40 m. SE. of Trieste; a new town of spacious and colonnaded streets and many fine buildings, has grown up on the ground sloping down from the old town; has an excellent harbour, and flourishing industries in paper, torpedoes, tobacco, etc., besides being the entrepôt of an important and increasing commerce.
Population (circa 1900) given as 29,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Fitzwilliam, William, Earl * Flacius