Tarente ( Italian Taranto in , Τάρας /Greek Táras in , Latin Tarentum in ) is a Italian city of approximately 200  000 inhabitants, chief town of the province of the same name in the Pouilles.
Tarente is a port south of the Italy builds on the Golfe of Tarente. The old city, the città Vecchia , heiress of the colony Spartan which was, in the Antiquité, one of the richest cities of the Grande Greece, was built on an island.

Geography

History

The city was founded by the Parthénies, of exiled the Spartans, in 706 av. J. - C. and developed and became sovereign city of the Grande Greece (in the Greek colonies of the south of the Italy). Ceaseless fights opposed it to the populations Apulie. Tarente reached its apogee at fourth century BC and then exerted a true hegemony on Large Greece, as well on the political plan, as economic and cultural. It was the only city to have large well sheltered roads. Also became an important center of maritime trade and fishing.

In 212 av. J. - C., Tarente passes under the authority of Hannibal, which will be worth to him, once taken again, to be put at bag by the troops of Fabius Cunctator. The Romains made of it the final conquest in 209 av. J. - C., but peace with the city was made only starting from 123 av. J. - C.. After the Roman conquest, she saw her importance decreasing, the Romans preferring Brindisi to him.

Continuations with the wars with the Goths, the Byzantine Empire reconquered it in 540.

She was successively conquered in 661 by the Lombards, the Sarrasins, and finally by Norman the Robert Guiscard, in 1063. Later, it shared the fate of the Royaume of Naples.

Of 1806 with 1815, Tarente, whose work of fortifications had been entrusted to the general Soult, was a naval Base French very important in the war against the English and the Russians. The title of duke of Tarente was given by Napoleon to the marshal Macdonald (1765 - 1840).

In 1940, at the time of the Second world war, the fleet of the Regia Marina Italy, wet in the port of Taranto, sudden of large losses following a massive bombardment of the air fleet of the Royal British Navy (Battle of Tarente (1940)).

Economy

Tarente has an important military naval base equipped with an arsenal, chemical building sites naval, Industrie S, a steelworks and food industries.

Administration

Hamlets

Talsano, Lido Azzurro, LAMA, San Vito

Communes bordering

Carosino, Faggiano, Fragagnano, Grottaglie, Leporano, Lizzano, Massafra, Monteiasi, Montemesola, Monteparano, Pulsano, Roccaforzata, San Giorgio Ionico, San Marzano di San Giuseppe, Statte, Villa Castelli (Br)

Tourism

Events

• Holy Week in Tarente

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

• Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803), French writer, (author of the Dangerous Connections ), dies there on September 5th, 1803, on the spot buried, its tomb vut profaned and destroyed, with the return of the Bourbons in 1815.

Quotations

Nothing equalizes for me this pleasant retirement:
There greens olive-trees hold them would be jealous,
Fertile O Vénafre, and the honey of Hymette
Is less pure and less soft;
There reign a long spring that Baïa even desire;
There never did not prevail the rigorous winters;
There of Falerne Aulon, expensive with Bacchus,
defy the tasty grapes| Horace, “In Septime” ( Odes II, 6) |

Twinnings

Tarente is twinned with

See too

• List of the Italian cities of more than 25.000 inhabitants

External bonds

• Arts center Filonide
• tourism in Tarente
• Official site of the commune

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