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This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
The name of this era of history derives from classical antiquity (or the Greco-Roman era) of Europe. Though, the everyday context in use is reverse (such as historians reference to Medieval China ). In European history, "post-classical" is synonymous with the medieval time or Middle Ages , the period of history from around the 5th century to ...
A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory. [1] They have existed in many parts of the world throughout history, including cities such as Rome, Carthage, Athens and Sparta and the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as Florence, Venice, Genoa and Milan.
Medieval cities of Egypt (3 C, 14 P) F. Medieval Finnish towns (6 P) I. Medieval Indian cities (11 P) J. Medieval Jerusalem (3 C, 16 P) K. Khazar towns (21 P) L ...
The government of the Kingdom of England in the Middle Ages was a monarchy based on the principles of feudalism. The king possessed ultimate executive, legislative, and judicial power. However, some limits to the king's authority had been imposed by the 13th century.
List of political entities in the 19th century ... List of medieval great powers; ... List of Bronze Age states; List of cities of the ancient Near East;
The Struggle for Power in Medieval Italy: Structures of Political Rule, 400-1400, translator, Rosalind Brown Jensen (New York: Cambridge University Press) Waley, Donald, 1969 etc. The Italian City-Republics (3rd ed. New York: Longman, 1988.) Guelph University, "The Urban Past: IV. The Medieval City" A bibliography.
The Swabian League (Schwäbischer Bund) was a mutual defence and peace keeping association of Imperial Estates – free Imperial cities, prelates, principalities and knights – principally in the territory of the early medieval stem duchy of Swabia, established in 1488 at the behest of Emperor Frederick III of Habsburg and supported as well by ...