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The Republic of Genoa was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast. During the Late Middle Ages, it was a major commercial power in both the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. Between the 16th and 17th centuries, it was one of the major financial centers ...
5 de may. de 2024 · Genoa, then Italy’s greatest commercial port, vied with Marseille for supremacy in the Mediterranean and competed with the ports of the North Sea for the trade of Switzerland and central Europe. When Genoa’s share in the latter declined somewhat in the 20th century, the difference was counterbalanced by the ever-increasing trade ...
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The Republic of Genoa extended over modern Liguria, Piedmont, Sardinia (see also Pisan-Genoese expeditions to Sardinia), Corsica, and Nice, and had practically complete control of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Through Genoese participation in the Crusades, colonies were established in the Middle East, the Aegean Sea, Sicily, and Northern Africa.
The Republic of Genoa was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the 11th century to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast. During the Late Middle Ages, it was a major commercial power in both the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
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 ...
The Republic of Genoa was an independent and sovereign state in 1776 when the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. Genoa recognized the United States in 1791 when it appointed Joseph Ravara to act as Consul General for the Doge and Governors of the Republic of Genoa at Philadelphia.
The direct intervention of Napoleon (during the Campaigns of 1796) and his representatives in Genoa was the final act that led to the fall of the Republic in early June, who overthrew the old elites which had ruled the state for all of its history, giving birth to the Ligurian Republic on 14 June 1797, under the watchful care of Napoleonic France.
