Prosecco (Trieste)

Prosecco (; ) is a village near the city of Trieste, Italy. It is best known for giving the name to the wine Prosecco. It lies above sea level.
Name.
Prosecco was attested in written sources in 1308 as "Prossecho" (and as "Prosec" in 1372, "Prossegk" in 1421, and "Proseck" and "Prosseck" in 1494). The name is of Slovene origin, derived from the dialect common noun "prosek" 'path cut through the woods' (cf. standard Slovene "proseka", standard Serbian/Croatian is "prosek"). The wine Prosecco was named after the village, and this wine name was later re-borrowed from Italian into Slovene and Croatian as "prošek".
Population.
The population in the central area of the locality is still mainly Slovene; it was 92% Slovene before the annexation of Austrian Littoral to Italy in 1920 and subsequent Italianization. The newer part of the locality known as "Borgo San Nazario", built in the 1950s and 1960s, is mainly inhabited by Istrian Italians that left Istria after the end of World War II.