Monrupino

**Monrupino** () is a *[[comune]]* (municipality) in the Province o Trieste in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, locatit aboot 9&nbsp;km north o Trieste, on the border wi Slovenie. , it haed a population o 848 an a aurie o 12.7&nbsp;km². According to the 1971 census, 77.3% of the population are Slovenes.

The municipality o Monrupino conteens the *[[frazione|frazioni]]* (subdiveesions, mainly veelages an hamlets) Fernetti-Fernetiči, Col (Zolla), Repen (Rupingrande). 

Border crossins intae Slovenie are locatit at Monrupino (cried Repentabor on the Slovenie side) an Fernetti (Fernetiči).

Monrupino borders the follaein municipalities: Sežana (Slovenie), Sgonico, Trieste.

## Demographic evolution

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## Politics
Tradeetionally, Monrupino haes been a left-leanin municipality. In the 1950s and 1960s, it wis pairt o the so-cried "red belt" aroond Trieste: that is, o those municipalities aroond the ceety dominatit bi the Communist Pairty. In the Juin 1949, in the first municipal elections in the Free Territory o Trieste, the Communist-led Slavic-Italian Anti-Fascist Union wan 97% o the votes. The election result wis heraldit bi the Soviet press as a victory for the Communist Pairty.

Syne the 1970s, the centrist pairty o the Slovene minority in Italy, the Slovene Union, stairtit gainin support. In the last few decades, the Slovene Union an the Italian leftist pairty (the Democratic Pairty, afore the Democrats o the Left an afore thaim the Communist Pairty) alternate in pouer. Currently, the municipality is led bi a mayor o the Slovene Union, which is the lairgest pairty in the Municipal Cooncil an aw (wi aroond 45% o votes).

## References


## See an aw
*Kras
*Gorizia an Gradisca
*Julian Mairch
*Slovene Lands