Placitum of Riziano

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The Placitum of Riziano ({{langx|it|Placito del Risano}}; {{langx|sl|Rižanski zbor}}) was a dispute that took place c. 804 around the Riziano River, probably at Rižana in modern Slovenia. The document is important for the history of Koper and Trieste because it is the first written evidence of the presence of a Slavic-speaking population in Istria close to Trieste.{{cite web |url=http://www.liceopetrarcats.it/sperimentazione/sitocarso/storia.htm |title=Copia archiviata |access-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824021812/http://www.liceopetrarcats.it/sperimentazione/sitocarso/storia.htm |archive-date=24 August 2012}} Liceo F. Petrarca – Trieste – a.s. 2001/2002 – Il Carso tra natura e culturaJanko Jež – Monumenta Frisingensia: la prima presentazione in Italia dei Monumenti letterari sloveni di Frisinga del X-XI secolo ...: con traduzione dei testi, cenni di storia del popolo sloveno e dati sugli Sloveni in Italia – Trieste: Mladika; Florence: Vallecchi Editore, 1994 - {{ISBN|88-8252-024-2}}

Legates sent by Charlemagne heard complaints by the leaders of Istria about the bishops and the John, Duke of Istria. The document is believed to have been recorded on the orders of Fortunatus II, patriarch of Grado.{{cite journal |last1=Krahwinkler |first1=Harald |date=25 April 2005 |title= Patriarch Fortunatus of Grado and the Placitum of Riziano |url=https://repozitorij.upr.si/IzpisGradiva.php?id=5381&lang=eng |journal=Acta Histriae |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=63–78 |publisher=Annales Publishing House|access-date=24 November 2017 }} A point of historiographical contention is the fact that only the leaders of the coastal towns of Istria were present; one explanation for this is that the issues being discussed (for example, the abolition of the right of the townspeople to fish) only affected the coast.{{cite web |url=http://www.istrianet.org/istria/history/0000-0999AD/0804_placito/index.htm |title=Placito del Risano – 804 A.D.|date=20 March 2016 |website=IstriaNet.org |access-date= 24 November 2017 }}

The Latin text has been edited many times, but the standard edition is by Manaresi.I placiti del Regnum Italiae, ed. C. Manaresi (Rome, 1955), vol. I, no. 17, pp. 48–56 The text has been translated into various modern languages.French translation: Ph. Depreux, Les societes occidentales du milieu du VI a la fin du IX siecle (Rennes, 2002), pp. 293–299, [http://books.openedition.org/pur/17383 online]; English translation: C. West, "In The Time of the Greeks," [http://turbulentpriests.group.shef.ac.uk/in-the-time-of-the-greeks-the-rizana-dispute-and-the-carolingian-byzantine-empires Turbulent Priests]