Looking at the passenger list for my cousin 1955, it list him being born in Trieste, Ftt. Now I know Trieste is in Italy, but What does "Ftt" stand for. It just seems like an odd abbreviation for Italy. What am I missing? I do not know what the abbreviation should be, just pondering. Thanks Chris

ChrisGW wrote: > Looking at the passenger list for my cousin 1955, it list him being born > in Trieste, Ftt. Now I know Trieste is in Italy, but What does "Ftt" > stand for. It just seems like an odd abbreviation for Italy. What am I > missing? I do not know what the abbreviation should be, just pondering. > > Thanks > Chris Apparently FTT refers to the Free Territory of Trieste. From wikipedia: "In 1947, Trieste became an independent state as the Free Territory of Trieste and was governed for several years by the Allied Military Government, comprising American and (mainly) British forces headed by Sir Terence Airey. This state was de facto dissolved in 1954: the city of Trieste, dubbed Zone A, went to Italy, while the southern part of the territory (Zone B), comprising Istria and some parts of the Karst went to Yugoslavia. The annexation to Italy was officially proclaimed on October 26 of that year. The border questions with Yugoslavia and the status of the ethnic minorities were settled definitively in 1975 with the Treaty of Osimo."