Aquilée , in Italian Aquileia , is currently a coastal Ville of the Adriatique of approximately 3  300 inhabitants pertaining to the Italian province of Udine, in the area of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

History

Roman Colony founded in -181, Aquileia becomes quoted later less Siècle. During the reign of Auguste (of -31 with 14 it is proclaimed capital tenth area of Italy (currently Venezia and Istrie roughly speaking ). The urban development at that time is such as its splendor is worth to him to be compared with one second Rome. The fortune of Aquilée comes to him from its strategic position and commercial to the outlets of the roads coming from the Alps, and in particular from the road of Amber. Aquilée thus quickly became a plate hinged of the Mediterranean trade in direction of the Danubian and Rhenish areas. By its port forward many food products, the city itself being in the center of a rich person soil.

In 168, the city is used as a basis to the emperors Marc Aurèle and Lucius Verus against the tribes revolted of the Danubian areas. The Peste antonine obliges them to differ their offensive. On a discussed date, but today generally placed in 170, Aquilée is besieged by the Quades and the Marcomans combined against the Romans with the Sarmates during the long wars of the reign of Marc Aurèle.

In 238, the city is besieged by the troops of Maximin Thrace within the framework of the civil war which opposes it to the Roman Sénat. The city organizes its defense while waiting for the reinforcements from Rome, besieging them fails to take it and ends up massacring Maximin, Aquilée then becomes the theater of the rallying of the armies of the Maximin emperor to the new emperors appointed by the senate.

Under Dioclétien (293 - 305), Aquilée becomes the seat of a monetary Atelier.

After the edict of Constantin, in 313, the bishop Theodore founds there a first church which has a central role in the evangelization towards the Is, until the the Danube and in Hungary and, across the Istrie, towards the Balkans. The importance of this évêché is worth to him the statute of Patriarcat since the year 554.

The decline comes with the cruel Invasions and the fall from the Roman Empire from Occident. The Fortification S destroyed, the city was shaven by Attila in 452. The area became an easy passage to invade the rich person Péninsule. While the local population was folded up in the hills, in évêché Aquilée only its prestigious remained which, of 1077 with 1420, had under its control the the Friuli and the Venezia as well as a good part of the Slovenia and Istrie. This time knew astonishing advanced democratic the such Parlement of the Friuli. The Venezia depended on the patriarchate of Aquilée until in 1751.

To see

• the Roman Forum
• the Byzantine Basilica with its mosaic S of the 4th century
• Museum S archaeological and paléochrétien.

Administration

Hamlets

Communes bordering

See too

• Paulin d' Aquilée (Holy), patriarch and Theology N which fought the Adoptianisme at the 8th century.
• Schism of Aquilée (Lombards);
• Council of Aquilée (701).