- Sušak
Sušak is a part of the city of
Rijeka inCroatia , where it composes the eastern part of the city.In 1924 Rijeka belonged to the independent
Free State of Fiume , which had been created four years earlier under the Treaty of Rapallo, but in the Treaty of Rome the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes andItaly agreed to dissolve the free state. Instead Fiume was annexed to Italy as theProvince of Fiume , and Sušak remained with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but with joint administration of theport facilities. The name of traditional soccer club from Sušak isNK Orijent In her book, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lamb_and_Grey_Falcon Black Lamb and Grey Falcon] , [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_West Rebecca West] dedicates a chapter to "Sushak" (sic). At the moment of the writing the city was a separation town from Fiume, as described above. Of the border area, she writes, "There we found a town that has the quality of a dream, a bad headachy dream. (...) And at places where no frontiers could possibly be, in the middle of a square, or on a bridge linking the parts of a quay, men in uniform step forward and demand passports..."
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