Relating to Fiume, a historical port city on the Adriatic Sea (now Rijeka, Croatia), or its people and culture.
From Italian 'Fiume' (meaning 'river,' from Latin 'flumen') plus '-an' (suffix for people/places), referring to the city that was an important medieval trading port.
Fiume is a geopolitical ghost word—after World War I, Italian nationalists claimed this multilingual city so fiercely that it briefly became an independent state (1920–1924) under poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, one of history's strangest political adventures.
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