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Oct 6, 2023 · Genoa – population just under 815,000, Italy’s largest (or second-largest, depending on your metrics) commercial port and the capital of the region of Liguria – has a history replete with...
- Maria Shollenbarger
Aug 18, 2015 · From this, the city state of Genoa rose to become a merchant-pirate superpower, Venice’s warring twin, and a vital cog in the medieval economy that dragged Europe firmly out of the Dark Ages.
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Sep 30, 2019 · The Republic of Genoa, from its rise as a maritime commercial power in the twelfth century, establishing trading colonies throughout the Mediterranean, to the sixteenth-century “siglo de los Genoveses,” or “Century of the Genoese,” presented elements of each of the three categories discussed above: empire, commercial empire, hub of ...
- Thomas Kirk
Apr 17, 2009 · 10 innovations by the Banco di San Giorgio: 1 Public debt: has been financed by taxes for a thousand years, and was first documented in Genoa. Other Italian republics followed the Genoese...
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 chapter provides a microanalytical examination of the historical process of state-building in Genoa while explicitly recognizing the need to study the polity as an equilibrium outcome in which actors can choose between predatory and economic behavior.
