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History of Abruzzo

In Paleolithic Abruzzo was already inhabited and the influx of population continued in the Neolithic Mediterranean ancestry and in the first millennium C. Age population was historic Indo (Sabines, Marsi, Peligni, Frentani) The successful expansion policy pursued by Rome led, over the centuries. IV and III a. C., subjugation of indigenous peoples and their association with the Roman rule, except for the brief period of independence from 91 to 88 C., as a result of the social war. With the division of the Italian peninsula made by Augustus, Abruzzo region formed the IV.


The Lombard invasion not spared from the ravages of Abruzzo and in 572 of its territory was incorporated into the Duchy of Spoleto with the name of the province of Mars or Marsia.In was later divided into several suburbs including the Sabine, which was annexed to the domain of the Pope around 939.Verso half century. XII, the Normans occupied the whole Abruzzo. eliminating all local autonomy. It was then conquered by Emperor Henry IV and then followed the fate of the kingdom of Naples in the struggles between the Church and the Swabians. In the centuries that followed, Durazzo, Angevin and Aragonese, who feuded over ownership of the region that left a prey to civil strife and banditry. Devastating earthquake struck the Abruzzo in the early century. XVIII, during the war between Spaniards and Austrians. In 1838 it passed to the Bourbons of Naples, under whose rule it remained until the annexation to the Kingdom of Italy in 1860. Abruzzi populations of different origins, soon came into conflict with the Romans and, after being finally defeated around 304 BC, became important allies of Rome. Although some of them, as the Marsi, remain active, promoting the social war of 90 BC, and setting up a federal state with its capital in Corfinio. The spread of Christianity, was heavily evangelized the region and around the fifth century, flourished a local monasticism. With the Lombard invasion (572), after being devastated, the territory was divided between the Duchy of Spoleto and the duchy of Benevento (which went part of Sannio, Molise, which was called then). Abruzzo got a real organization in the county when the Duchy of Spoleto was invaded by the Franks, and its central committee became autonomous Marsica 843. Norman became the twelfth century. , Then entered a part of the kingdom of Sicily. Frederick II was to bring together the region, making it a single province with capital in Sulmona, L'Aquila and established. City designed to dominate the whole area. oo Annexed to the Kingdom of Naples under the Anjou, became a possession of Aragon after exhausting power struggles. Sided with the French, the descent of Charles VIII, was subdued by Spanish rule, the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Invaded, then, before the Austrians, and then by the Bourbons, from 1734 to 1860, opposed to the annexation to the Neapolitan Republic.

Last Updated on Friday, 28 August 2009 14:33
 

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