PORDENONE, or PORTENAU, a town of Austrian Italy, in the government of Venice, stands on the Noncello, 40 miles N.N.E. of Venice. It is well built, and surrounded with an old wall; and it contains several churches, a convent, hospital, workhouse, and theatre. Manufactures, especially that of paper, are actively carried on here; and there is some trade in corn and wine. As early as the twelfth century, Pordenone belonged to Austria, but afterwards passed, with the rest of the province of Friuli, under the dominion of Venice. Pop. 6300.