Treaty of Paris between Italy and the Allied Powers
The Treaty of peace with Italy is a treaty signed in Paris on February 10, 1947 between Italy and the victorious powers of World War II, formally ending the hostilities.
The provisions of the treaty included:
- transfer of the Adriatic islands of Cherso/Cres, Lussino/Lošinj, Lagosta/Lastovo and Pelagosa/Palagruža, of Istria south of river Quieto/Mirna, of the city of Fiume/Rijeka and what is now western Slovenia (west of the Black Sea - Adriatic watershed) to Yugoslavia;
- transfer of Dodecanese islands to Greece;
- transfer to France of Briga and Tenda, and minor revisions of the Franco-Italian border;
- recognition of independence of Albania and transfer to Albania of the island of Saseno;
- renouncement of claims to colonies;
- cancellation of favourable commercial treaties with China.
Trieste and surrounding area were incorporated into a new independent state called the Free Territory of Trieste, which was later divided between Yugoslavia and Italy in 1954, with the city itself going to Italy.
A subsequent annex to the treaty provided for cultural autonomy of the German minority in the province of Bolzano-Bozen.