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Sesto San Giovanni: la Stalingrado d'Italia (the Stalingrad of Italy) Siena: la città del Palio (the city of the Palio) / la Pompei medievale (the medieval Pompeii) Taranto: la città dei due mari (the city with 2 seas) Torino: la valorosa (the valiant) / la città magica (the magic city) / la regale (the royal)
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Southern Italy was divided amongst the two Lombards duchies of Spoleto and Benevento, who accepted Charlemagne's suzerainty only formally (812), and the Byzantine Empire. Coastal cities like Gaeta, Amalfi, Naples on the Tyrrhenian Sea, and Venice on the Adriatic Sea, were enclaves who were becoming increasingly independent of Byzantium. A ...
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Print/export Download as PDF ... Help. Italy portal; Italian city-states — of the Medieval Italy period. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 ...
This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era.
Latin place names are not always exclusive to one place – for example, there were several Roman cities whose names began with Colonia and then a more descriptive term. During the Middle Ages, these were often shortened to just Colonia. One of these, Colonia Agrippinensis, retains the name today in the form of Cologne.
Florence was one of the most important Italian city-states. Among the earliest Medieval city-states of Italy, that already started to emerge in the 7th century, were the Duchy of Naples, Duchy of Amalfi, Gaeta and the Republic of Venice which, although nominally under Byzantine control, were effectively independent.