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Naples (/ ˈ n eɪ p əl z / NAY-pəlz; Italian: Napoli ⓘ; Neapolitan: Napule [ˈnɑːpələ]) [a] is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, [3] after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. [4]
The Bay of Naples, by Joseph Vernet, 1748. The population of Naples at the beginning of the 19th century was mostly made up of a mass of people, who were called the lazzarone and lived in extremely poor conditions. As well, there was a strong royal bureaucracy and an élite of landowners.
Map of Naples, 1572 An 18th-century painting depicting an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Naples. The Naples area has been inhabited since the Neolithic period. The earliest historical sources in the area were left by the Myceneans in the 2nd millennium BC. During its long history, Naples ...
The Norman conquest of southern Italy lasted from 999 to 1194, involving many battles and independent conquerors. In 1130, the territories in southern Italy united as the Kingdom of Sicily, which included the island of Sicily, the southern third of the Italian Peninsula (except Benevento, which was briefly held twice), the archipelago of Malta, and parts of North Africa.
Bolla aqueduct and cistern in the Galleria Borbonica. The Bolla Aqueduct was the first aqueduct in Naples built around 400 BC by the Greek inhabitants. [1] It was about 10 km long, bringing water from a marshy depression near Mount Vesuvius, known as the "Volla” plain, which was in turn supplied by an aquifer of pyroclastic and sedimentary deposits laid down in Vesuvius' many eruptions.
George (died 739) was the Duke of Naples for a decade beginning in 729. George succeeded Theodore I and continued his prudent policy of balancing between the Byzantine Empire and the papacy , at that time embroiled in a conflict over the iconoclastic controversy .
The Naples Historic District is a U.S. historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, located in Naples, Florida. [1] The 500 acres (2.0 km 2) district is bounded by Ninth Avenue S, 3rd Street, Thirteenth Avenue S, and the Gulf of Mexico. It contains 65 historic houses, two historic commercial buildings, and 26 ...
The bust of Jupiter Stator is now on display in the Naples archeological museum. Four years later in 1886, the fountain was again disassembled, and moved in 1889 to a site on the grounds of the Villa del Popolo. The new location was considered unfortunate, in part because the area was now surrounded by unscenic port warehouses.