PIRANO, a city of the Austrian government of Trieste, in the district of Capo d'Istria. It stands on a tongue of land in the Bay of Trieste, and contains 895 houses, with 6800 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in the fisheries, or in making salt on the lagoons in their vicinity. Long. 13. 29. 4. E. Lat. 45. 29. 22. N.