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Alessandro de' Medici (22 July 1510 – 6 January 1537), nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine Republic (from 1532), was ruler of Florence from 1530 to his death in 1537. [2] The first Medici to rule Florence as a hereditary monarch, Alessandro was also the last Medici from the senior ...
This is a list of republics. ... Republic of Florence (1115–1537) Republic of Siena (1125–1557) Novgorod Republic (1136–1478) Commune of Rome (1144–1193)
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541 – Florence sacked by forces of Ostrogoth Totila. 1078 – City walls built. 1080 – Stone Ponte Vecchio (bridge) built. 1107 – Monte Orlandi and Prato become part of Florence. 1115–16 – Commune form of government adopted; Republic of Florence established. 1128 – Florence Baptistery built. 1138 – "City divided into six wards."
The military reforms of the Florentine Republic were initiated by Florentine politician and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli during the short-lived Republic of Florence that lasted from 1498 to 1512 under the priest Girolamo Savonarola. In the pursuit of the republican spirit which pervaded Florence at the time, Machiavelli sought to ...
The Republic of Siena ( Italian: Repubblica di Siena, Latin: Respublica Senensis) was a historic state consisting of the city of Siena and its surrounding territory in Tuscany, central Italy. It existed for over 400 years, from 1125 to 1555. During its existence, it gradually expanded throughout southern Tuscany becoming one of the major ...
Florence ( Italian: Firenze) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany ( Toscana ), in Italy. From 1865 to 1870 the city was also the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Florence is on the Arno River. The city has a population of around 370,000 people, and a suburban population of over 2,000,000 people. The greater area has around 956,000 people.
