query: place_of_birth riccardo zanella
supports: Riccardo Zanella ( 27 June 1875 - 30 March 1959 ) was the only elected president of the short lived Free State of Fiume . Zanella was born to an Italian father and Slovene mother in Fiume , Austria - Hungary ( present - day Croatia ) . He attended Hungarian Commercial School in Fiume and Budapest . Soon he was professor of bookkeeping in the same school in Fiume , but year later he resigned . During the clash between Liberalism and radicalism in Hungary , Zanella emerged as the local leader of the Kossuthist faction in Fiume . He became the leader of the Autonomist Association , known also as Autonomist Party in Fiume , after Michele Maylender resigned in 1901 . With Zanella the party abandoned its liberal stance and turned to the Kossuthist independence party for support . Embracing a staunch Italian nationalist stance ( in its vehemence typical of the Kossuthists political style ) his popularity grew especially among the lower and middle classes , eventually becoming elected mayor ( Podestà ) of Fiume in 1914 , but the nomination was vetoed by the Emperor Franz Joseph . During World War I , Zanella fought in a Hungarian unit on the Russian front where he promptly deserted to the Russians . In 1916 he arrived in Rome where he started an agitation campaign for the Italian annexation of Fiume . After the War ended in 1918 he came back to Fiume where he was greeted as a hero , but quickly distanced himself from the Italian National Council in Fiume that assumed the powers in the City . After Gabriele D'Annunzio on September 12 , 1919 , seized the city of Fiume , Zanella led the Autonomist opposition to the D'Annunzio 's regime of occupation and personal dictatorship . His chance came as D'Annunzio ignored the Treaty of Rapallo and declared war on Italy itself , finally surrendering the city in December 1920 after a bombardment by the Italian navy . Zanella served in office as president of the Free State of Fiume from 5 October 1921 to 3 March 1922 , when his term was cut short due to Italian occupation , following a fascist putsch . Italy formally annexed the territory on 16 March 1924 . During 1930 's Zanella resided mainly in exile in Belgrade . Following World War II Zanella demanded the restoration of the Free State as a sovereign entity , but failed to receive support for his idea at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco . Nevertheless , he restated the request also to the London Council of Foreign Ministers in September 1945 . Thereby he compared the Free State of Fiume , `` submerged by an act of Fascist aggression '' to that of Albania and Ethiopia . Moreover , he denied its annexation to Croatia or Yugoslavia , where it never belonged , since it was a country of the Holy Crown of Hungary . Zanella 's efforts proved utterly unsuccessful and he died in exile in Rome in 1959 . Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a sovereign state between Central Europe, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean. Its capital city is Zagreb, which forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, along with its twenty counties. Croatia covers and has diverse, mostly continental and Mediterranean climates. Croatia's Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands. The country's population is 4.28 million, most of whom are Croats, with the most common religious denomination being Roman Catholicism. Rijeka (see other names) is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split). It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,624 inhabitants (2011). The metropolitan area, which includes adjacent towns and municipalities, has a population of more than 240,000. World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nationsincluding all of the great powerseventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history. The Free State of Fiume was an independent free state which existed between 1920 and 1924. Its territory of comprised the city of Fiume (now in Croatia and, since the end of World War II, known as Rijeka) and rural areas to its north, with a corridor to its west connecting it to Italy.
candidates: capital city croatia free state hiroshima ii italy made nagasaki of republic rijeka
answer: rijeka