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The Italian city-states were numerous political and independent territorial entities that existed in the Italian Peninsula from antiquity to the formation of the Kingdom of Italy in the late 19th century. The ancient Italian city-states were Etruscan (Dodecapolis), Latin, most famously Rome, and Greek (Magna Graecia), but also of Umbrian ...
The following is a list of the various Italian states during that period. Following the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the arrival of the Middle Ages (in particular from the 11th century), the Italian Peninsula was divided into numerous states.
Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy (House of Savoy). The Italian nobility (Italian: Nobiltà italiana) comprised individuals and their families of the Italian Peninsula, and the islands linked with it, recognized by the sovereigns of the Italian city-states since the Middle Ages, and by the kings of Italy after the unification of the region into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.
As Spain declined in the 16th century, so did its Italian possessions in Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, and Milan. Southern Italy was impoverished, stagnant, and cut off from the mainstream of events in Europe. Naples was one of the continent's most overcrowded and unsanitary cities, with a crime-ridden and volatile populace. [16]
17th century in the Papal States (14 C, 2 P) 17th-century Italian people (10 C, 5 P) R. 17th century in Rome (5 P) S. 17th century in the Kingdom of Sicily (14 C, 2 P) T.
Italian city-states — of the Medieval Italy period. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. M. Maritime republics (6 C, 11 P) R.
Over the 15th century, the most powerful city-states annexed their smaller neighbours: Florence took Pisa in 1406, Venice captured Padua and Verona, while the Duchy of Milan annexed nearby areas including Pavia and Parma. The early Renaissance saw almost constant warfare on land and sea as the city-states vied for preeminence.
1 Prior to 17th century. 2 17th–19th centuries. 3 20th century. 4 21st century. 5 See also. ... Maritime republics and Italian city-states; Guelphs and Ghibellines ...