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On 26 June 1745, the Republic of Genoa declared war on the Kingdom of Sardinia. [47] This decision would prove disastrous for Genoa, which later surrendered to the Austrians in September 1746 and was briefly occupied before a revolt liberated the city two months later.
On 26 June 1745, the Republic of Genoa declared war on the Kingdom of Sardinia. This decision would prove disastrous for Genoa, which later surrendered to the Austrians in September 1746 and was briefly occupied before a revolt liberated the city two months later.
The Austrians occupied the Republic of Genoa on 6 September 1746. [111] But they met with no success in their forays towards the Alps. Soon Genoa revolted and drove out the Austrians on 5–11 December 1746.
- Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
- Type of Government
- Background
- Government Structure
- Political Parties and Factions
- Major Events
- Aftermath
The Republic of Genoa was a city-state based in Liguria, the Mediterranean coastal region of northwest Italy near France. Like Venice, its chief rival in the region, Genoa attained immense wealth and power from its maritime economy and forged a political system dominated by an elite group of old families determined to maintain it as an independent ...
Genoa was settled around 2000 BC by seafaring Greeks, who found that it possessed an excellent natural harbor on the Mediterranean Sea. Later occupied by Roman forces, Ostrogoths, and the Lombards, Genoa went on to become part of Charlemagne’s (742–814) empire and then a possession of the Holy Roman Empire. By 1000 it had grown into a thriving mari...
Genoa’s first independent form of self-government came into existence in 1099 as the Comune. This was an alliance of merchants and nobles that consisted of eight compagnies (formal orders) headed by nobles. The units possessed their own fleets, weaponry, wharves, and clearly defined districts of the city that extended up from their location on the ...
Among the aristocratic families that dominated Genoese politics for eight hundred years were the Doria, Fieschi, Spinola, and Grimaldi clans. Rivalries between them became so heated that at one point the Grimaldis fled into exile and founded their own royal house at the nearby Rock of Monaco. The Nuccio, Adorno, and Campofregoso families dominated ...
Important dates in Genoese political history include 958, when the joint rulers of the ancient kingdom of Italy—soon to be folded into the Holy Roman Empire—formally recognized the Republic of Genoa as an independent entity. Following Genoese participation in the First Crusade (1096–1099), it was granted significant trade privileges in the Mediterr...
Genoa was succeeded by the short-lived Republic of Liguria, then changed hands several times before being absorbed into the united Kingdom of Italy in the nineteenth century. Carden, Robert W. The City of Genoa. New York: James Pott, 1908. Epstein, Steven A. Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528. Chapel Hill: University of North CarolinaPress, 1996. Kirk...
The definitive Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (15 October 1748) confirmed the Republic of Genoa in all its possession and rejected the pretensions of Charles Emanuel III on Finale. Thus Genoa achieved its principal goal: to safeguard its independence. The war damages were rapidly redressed and shortly everything was restored. Even if the the loss of ...
30. Sept. 2019 · The long history of the Republic of Genoa can be seen as an immensely rich laboratory of unfinished experiments. Precocious among Italian city-states in acquiring a territorial state, Genoa struggled for centuries to provide its Riviere with a homogeneous governing structure.
The Republic of Genoa and Its Maritime Empire Thomas Kirk The long history of the Republic of Genoa can be seen as an immensely rich laboratory of unfinished experiments. Precocious among Italian city-states in acquiring a territorial state, Genoa struggled for centuries to provide its Riviere with a homogeneous governing structure. Militarily ...
