Tolmin

Tolmin lies near the meeting of the Soča and Tolminka rivers, in an Alpine valley leading toward the Adriatic hinterland. The area came under Venice in 1420 and was conquered by the Habsburg emperor Maximilian I in 1509 during the War of the League of Cambrai. It was then administered with the former possessions of the counts of Gorizia. In 1713 Tolmin became the centre of a peasant revolt against increased taxation and the local Count Coronini. During the Napoleonic wars it formed part of the French Illyrian Provinces from 1809 to 1814, before returning to Austrian rule. The valley's roads connected its communities with the wider region, while farming and grazing sustained the surrounding countryside.