Ravenne

Ravenne is a Italian city of the Province of Ravenne in Emilie-Romagna.

History of Ravenne

Ravenne was rested by a colony of Thessalie NS, and was then occupied by the Étrusques, the Sabins, the Gaulois Sénonais. It fell to the capacity from the Romains the year 234 av. J. - C, and became municipal city.

Being located on the edge even sea under the Roman Empire until the beginning of the the Middle Ages, it was an important port.

With the turning of the Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Ravenne became a city of first importance. In 404, during the reign of Honorius, it was high with the row of capital of the Roman Empire of Occident, because of its favorable situation: surrounded by marshy zones, it was relative with the shelter of the terrestrial attacks of the barbarians, and its port of Classis , on the Adriatique, put it in easy communication with Constantinople. The city continued to be the center of the Western Empire until the fall of this one in 476. It then became the capital of the kingdom of Odoacre, then starting from 493 that of the kingdom of the Ostrogoths, under Théodoric Large the, which included the Italy, the Gaulle cisalpine, the Dalmatie and the Sicily. In 540, under the reign of Justinien I {{er}}, Ravenne was conquered by the Byzantine general Bélisaire; it was then reconquered by the ostrogoths before being again begun again by the Byzantine general Narsès in 552.

It is to counter the danger born of the invasion of the Lombards in Italy of north starting from 568, that Ravenne became the seat of the Exarchat, per decision of the emperor Maurice ( cf Exarchat de Ravenne ). The concentration of all the civil capacities and soldiers between the hands of exarque, staff representative of the Byzantine emperor could not, in the long run, prevent the emancipation of the territories of Italy of north with respect to the imperial capacity.

It was taken into 752 by Astolfe, king of the Lombards. Two years after, Pépin the Brief removed it to him and gave it to the the Holy See.

With the Middle Ages, Ravenne recovered for some time its freedom, but it was subjected soon by Bologna, then by Venice in 1440. After the battle of Agnadel in 1509, it was restored with the pope and became the capital of the Romagna. In l512, the French, ordered by Gaston de Foix, gained there over the Spaniards and the troops of the pope Jules II a bright victory; but Gaston perishes there.

The archbishop of Ravenne was in the past primacy of Exarchat and claimed to compete with the pope; but, in a council held into 679, it was obliged to give up publicly its claims with independence.

Ravenne belonged to the kingdom of Italy starting from 1861.

Inheritance

The city is universally famous for its monuments of Byzantine style which have an incomparable whole of mosaics of the Early middle ages:

* Mausoleum of Official reception Placidia

* San Basilica Vital

* Basilica Sant' Apollinare nuovo

* Basilica Sant' Apollinare in Class

* Baptistry of Orthodoxe the

* Baptistry of Ariens

* Vault archiépiscopale.

These monuments paléochrétiens form a single unit registered on the Liste of the world heritage of UNESCO. The mosaics which they contain, in a remarkable state of conservation, provide an exceptional iconographic documentation on the Byzantine world of Théodose Ier to Justinien.

One can see also there the tomb of Théodoric Amale, known as Large the , king of the Ostrogoths. This mausoleum built, towards 520, is remarkable from its formed cupola of a Monolithe of Istrie, of 1 meter thickness, 33 meters of circumference and weighing 33 tons.

The Italian poet Dante Alighieri died in Ravenne in 1321, his tomb is place San Francesco in the historical center town.

Administration

Hamlets

Classify, Lido di Dante, Lido Adriano, Punta Marina, Marina di Ravenna, Marina Romea, Casalborsetti, Mandriole, San Romualdo, Camerlona, Piangipane, Fornace Zarattini, Villanova di Ravenna, San Michele, San Marco, Ghibullo, San Zaccaria, Fosso Ghiaia, Oporto Fuori

Communes bordering

Alfonsine, Silver plated (FE), Bagnacavallo, Bertinoro (FC), Cervia, Césène (FC), Comacchio (FE), Forlì (FC), Russi

Twinning

See too

Internal bonds

Exarchat de Ravenne
late Antiquity
List of the Italian cities of more than 25.000 inhabitants

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