Fiume

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Fiume

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Borrowed from Italian Fiume, from Latin Flūmen, from flūmen (“river”).

proper noun

  1. historical Synonym of Rijeka, a city in Croatia. Christmas 1920 was not what locals had come to anticipate in Fiume, the industrial port town in the northeast corner of the Adriatic Sea.

    Similar: Rijeka

  2. historical A former polity in Europe, between 1920–1924.

    Similar: Free State of Fiume

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@misc{fiume_2026,
  title = {Fiume},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fiume},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}