ITALY. Lombardia region. Town of Milan. "Piazza del Duomo", Duomo (main cathedral) square. 200.000 people demonstrate against the separation of the province of Trieste from Italy. At the end of the war the province of Trieste, seized by the Germans in 1943, was claimed by Yugoslavia, which had occupied the territory in 1945. The treaty signed in 1947 established the Free Territory of Trieste, to be guaranteed by the United Nations. July 26th, 1946.