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"The Rise of the Italian City-States" "Italy's City-States", End of Europe's Middle Ages, University of Calgary "City-states in Italy", Web Gallery of Art; Waley, Daniel; Dean, Trevor (2022). The Italian City-Republics. Routledge (fifth edition) Jones, Philip (1997). The Italian City-State. From Commune to Signoria. Oxford: Clarendon Press
The Renaissance began in Tuscany in Central Italy and centred in the city of Florence. [2] The Florentine Republic , one of the several city-states of the peninsula , rose to economic and political prominence by providing credit for European monarchs and by laying down the groundwork for developments in capitalism and in banking . [ 3 ]
Political map of Italy in the year 1843. Following the defeat of Napoleon's France, the Congress of Vienna (1815) was convened to redraw the European continent. In Italy, the Congress restored the pre-Napoleonic patchwork of independent governments, either directly ruled or strongly influenced by the prevailing European powers, particularly ...
Map of Italy and some of its major cities. The following is a list of Italian municipalities with a population over 50,000.The table below contains the cities populations as of 31 December 2021, [1] as estimated by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, [2] and the cities census population from the 2011 Italian Census. [3]
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Map_of_Italy_(1494)-it.svg licensed with PD-self, PD-user . 2009-04-11T16:38:29Z Rhegion 3245x3948 (549260 Bytes) aggiunta Reggio
The World Heritage Site lists the trulli in the town of Alberobello, with over 1500 preserved structures. [25] Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna: Ravenna: 1996 788; i, ii, iii, iv (cultural) This site comprises eight monuments in the city of Ravenna, which was the seat of the Roman Empire in the 5th century.
The Quattrocento is viewed as the transition from the Medieval period to the age of the Italian Renaissance, principally in the cities of Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, Naples. The period saw the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, and it has been compared with the Timurid Renaissance which unfolded at the same time in Central Asia. [6]
That fall, the Roman Republic also collapsed and the French were by now virtually cleared from Italy. Political map of Italy in the years around 1810. After seizing power as consul in France, Napoleon launched a renewed invasion of Italy. Milan fell on June 2, 1800 and Austrian defeats there and in Germany ended the War of the Second Coalition.