EMILIA
ROMAGNA
Roman road, which was linked with the garison town
of Piacenza on the Adriatic coast, was built in 187BC. The
capital of Etruscan, Felsina, located on the site of Bologna,
was devided before the Romans.
After the fall
of Rome, Ravenna was focused by the region and became a great
part of the Byzantine Empire administered from Constantinople.
Political Power passed to the noble families such as the Malatesta
in Rimini, the Bentivoglio in Bologna, the d'Este in Ferrara
and Modena, and the Farnese in Parma and Piacenza.
Attracting/Eminent poets such as Dante and ARIOSTO. Their
splendit works still grace the medieval centers of those towns.Modern
Emilia-Romagna, which was united with separate Papal States
in 1860, got its present borders in 1947. The half region
of Emilia, covering the western is traditionally jointed to
a more northern outlook and a tendency toward the left politically.
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