Name
In other Croatian dialects, the city is known as Reka or Rika, in Slovenian as Reka, in German as Sankt Veit am Flaum or Pflaum, in Hungarian and Italian as Fiume, and in Latin as Tarsatica, Vitopolis, or Flumen. In Croatian, rijeka is the word for river.
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