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On 16 December 1899 AC Milan was founded, from which in 1908, due to internal disagreements, the city rival Inter Milan was split. AC Milan has a long-standing rivalry with Inter Milan, with whom they contest the Derby della Madonnina, one of the most followed derbies in football. [82]
1045 - Milan adopts the commune form of local city-state government. [8] ... 1st Grenadier Battalion and 2nd Rifle Battalion of the Polish Legions founded in Milan. [21]
The University of Milan (also known as the "State University") founded in 1924, [244] is the largest public teaching and research university in the city. [245] The University of Milan is the sixth-largest university in Italy, with approximately 60,000 enrolled students and a teaching staff of 2,500. [246]
The Italian city-states were numerous political and ... The Latin settlement of Rome also was a city-state, founded in the 753 BC. ... Florence and Milan had over ...
—Tommaso da Caponago, 1448, Casa dei Panigarola, Milano In later centuries the coat of arms of Milan was sometimes embellished with the effigy of St. Ambrose. Beginning in the 16th century other ornaments such as cartouches, crowns and fronds began to appear. The gonfalon of Milan The first gonfalon of the city of Milan was a tapestry made around 1565 by embroiderers Scipione Delfinone and ...
Jean-Étienne Liotard, Portrait of Count Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, 1762, private collection. The date with which the formation of the nucleus of what was to become the State Archives of Milan (at that time called the Government Archives of Milan) [2] is identified is 1781, [3] the year in which the documentation from the Porta Giovia Castle, the present-day Sforza Castle, [4] was transferred to ...
Venice and Genoa were trade pioneers, first as maritime republics and then as regional states, followed by Milan, Florence, and the rest of northern Italy. Reasons for their early development include the relative military safety of Venetian lagoons, the high population density and the institutional structure which inspired entrepreneurs. [ 98 ]
Austrian Lombardy (Duchy of Milan, Duchy of Mantua, and minor territories): 1,100,000 (40,000 in the city of Milan itself) Grand Duchy of Tuscany : 1,000,000 (80,000 in Florence), standing army of 6,000, navy of 3 frigates