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Roman castrum in the 2nd century; later granted the status of a municipality,
to become Colonia Julia Parentium in the 1st century. The seat of the diocese
already at the turn of the 3rd into the 4th century.
On the collapse of the
Western Roman Empire, it was occupied by the Ostrogoths, from AD 539 under the
Byzantine rule, and in AD 788 it came under the power of the Franks. Municipal
administration was set up in Porec in the 12th century.
From 1232 the town was
under the rule of the Aquilean patriarch, and from 1267 it came under the power
of the Venetian Republic. In 1354 devastated by the Genovese. At the end of
the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries the plague substantially reduced
the population of the town.
In the second half of the 17th century the old town
and the surroundings was populated by the settlers from South Dalmatia. After
the fall of the Venetian Republic Porec came under the sovereignty of Austria.
In 1861 became the capital of Istria and the seat of the Istrian Diet; 1918-43
under the rule of Italy. During the Second World War (1994) it suffered heavy
damage from bombing.
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