Pazin

Pazin is a town in western Croatia, the executive seat of Istria County. It is known for medieval Pazin Castle, the former residence of the Istrian margraves. Pazin was first cited as Castrum Pisinium in a 983 deed regarding a donation by means of Emperor Otto II to the Diocese of Porec. It then belonged to the Imperial March of Istria, which had initially been underneath the suzerainty of the newly hooked up Duchy of Carinthia in 976, however separated collectively with the March of Carniola in 1040.

In the twelfth century Mitterburg Castle was in ownership of the Lower Carniolan depend Meinhard of Schwarzenburg, who held the workplace of a vogt of the Porec bishops, and hooked up the Pazin County. Upon his demise, Pazin turned into inherited via his son-in-regulation Count Engelbert III of Gorizia in 1186. The Istrian settlement became written in 1325 inside the Croatian language and in the Glagolitic script.