aval unit from
Koper
at the end of April 1945. After the
end of
World War II, Izola was
part of Zone B of the provisionally independent
Free Territory of Trieste; after the
de
facto dissolution of the
Free Territory in 1954 it was incorporated into
Slovenia, then a part of
Yugoslavia.
The newly defined
Italo-Yugoslav border
saw the migration of many people from
one side to the other. In Izola's case, many Italian speakers chose to leave,
and in their place Slovenian-speaking people from neighbouring villages settled
in the town.
In 1820, a thermal spring
was discovered in Izola, leading to the town's earliest forms of tourism.
Between 1902 and 1935 the Parenzana,
a narrow-gauge railway line connected the town to Trieste and Poreč (known as Parenzo until 1947). Today Izola has
