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• History
  ...n 42 BC. After the fall of the [[Western Roman Empire]] and the [[Lombards|Lombard]] invasions, "Italy" or "Italian" gradually became the collective name for ...remained under Byzantine control until the eleventh century). Facing a new Lombard offensive, the papacy appealed to the [[Franks]] for aid. In 756 Frankish f
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• Perugia
  ...h century, when it was captured by [[Totila]] after a long siege. In the [[Lombard]] period it is spoken of as one of the principal cities of [[Tuscia]]. In t
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• Padua
  ...ards]] the city of Padua rose in revolt ([[601]]) against [[Agilulf]], the Lombard king, and after suffering a long and bloody siege was stormed and burned by The temporary success of the [[Lombard League]] helped to strengthen the towns; but their ineradicable civic jealo
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• Ca' Rezzonico
  ...s of double height. The walls are decorated in [[trompe l'oeil]] by the [[Lombard]] [[Pietro Visconti]]. The images are of an architectural nature, which c
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• Bologna
  ...] king [[Liutprand, King of the Lombards|Liutprand]], becoming part of the Lombard Kingdom. The German newcomers formed a district called "addizione longobard ...began to grow again as a free [[medieval commune|Commune]], joining the [[Lombard League]] against [[Frederick Barbarossa]] in 1164. In 1088 the [[University
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• Verona
  ...[[Ostrogoth]] rule by [[Theodoric the Great]], who built a castle here. [[Lombard]] King [[Alboin]] was murdered by his wife Rosamund in Verona. It was captu ...at]], king of [[Ostrogoths]], [[Alboin]] and [[Rosamunda]], the [[Lombards|Lombard]] Dukes, [[Charlemagne]] and [[Pippin|Pippin of Italy]], [[Berengar I]], [[
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• Southern Italy
  ...ate]]. The [[Norman conquest of southern Italy]] completely subjugated the Lombard principalities, and overwhelmed the Byzantines from all but [[Naples]], whi
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• History of Naples
  At the time of the [[Lombards|Lombard]] invasion Naples had a population of about 30,000-35,000. In [[615]], unde ...or support from the [[Saracens]] in order to repel the siege of [[Lombards|Lombard]] troops coming from the neighbouring [[Duchy of Benevento]]. After Neapoli
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• Lega Nord
  ...of its principal precursors (and, later, sections), the [[Lega Lombarda]] (Lombard League), attained national significance in 1987 when its leader, Bossi, was ...]]. In [[Veneto]] it supports [[Venetism]], in [[Lombardy]] the defense of Lombard culture and language, in [[Piedmont]] the defense of Piedmontese culture an
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• Castagna
  ...n [[Italy]] was not yet united and when this city was more European than [[Lombard]].
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• Florence
  Peace returned under [[Lombard]] rule in the 6th century. Conquered by [[Charlemagne]] in 774, Florence be
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• L'Aquila
  Giacomo della Marca, Lombard masters undertook, in the relatively undeveloped north-east of the city, an
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• Rimini
  In 728 it was taken with many other cities by the Lombard [[King Liutprand]] but returned to the Byzantines about 735. [[Pippin the Y
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• Genoa
  ...the seat of their vicar. The [[Lombards]] submitted it in 643. In 773 the Lombard Kingdom was annexed by the [[Franks|Frank]] empire; the first Carolingian c
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• Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  ...rizia, it again became part of the Austrian Empire and was included in the Lombard-Veneto Kingdom, while Gorizia was merged with the Illyrian Kingdom and Trie
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• Pisa
  ...le Byzantine centre of [[Toscana|Tuscia]] to fall peacefully in [[Lombards|Lombard]] hands, through assimilation with the neighbouring region where their trad
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• Vatican City
  ...blical, Oriental, and Archaeological Institutes, the Russian Seminary, the Lombard College, the two Palaces of St. Apollinaris, and the Home of the Retreat of
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• Sicily
  ...al Byzantine liturgy. There are also several areas where dialects of the [[Lombard language]] of the [[Gallo-Italic]] family are spoken. Much of this populati
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• Italian literature
  ...literary revival of the 18th century was [[Giuseppe Parini]]. Born in a [[Lombard]] village in 1729, he was educated at Milan, and as a youth was known among ...his Tuscan supremacy, proclaimed and upheld by Cesari, there was opposed a Lombard school, which would know nothing of Tuscan, and with Dante's ''[[De vulgari
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• Italian Literature
  ...literary revival of the 18th century was [[Giuseppe Parini]]. Born in a [[Lombard]] village in 1729, he was educated at Milan, and as a youth was known among ...his Tuscan supremacy, proclaimed and upheld by Cesari, there was opposed a Lombard school, which would know nothing of Tuscan, and with Dante's ''[[De vulgari
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