Cavarzere

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Cavarzere
coat of arms
Cavarzere (Italy)
Cavarzere
Country Italy
region Veneto
Metropolitan city Venice  (VE)
Local name Cavàrzere
Coordinates 45 ° 8 '  N , 12 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 8 '13 "  N , 12 ° 4' 57"  E
height 4  m slm
surface 140.24 km²
Residents 13,348 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 95 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 30014
prefix 0426
ISTAT number 027006
Popular name Cavarzerani
Patron saint San Mauro
Website Comune Cavarzere
Cavazere
Cavazere

Cavarzere is an Italian municipality in the metropolitan city of Venice in the Veneto region. The municipality has 13,348 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) and an area of ​​140.24 km².

geography

Cavarzere is located in the Po Valley on the lower reaches of the Adige . The municipality borders the municipalities of Adria ( RO ), Agna ( PD ), Anguillara Veneta (PD), Chioggia , Cona , Loreo (RO), Pettorazza Grimani (RO) and San Martino di Venezze (RO).

history

Etruscans, Romans

Cavarzere (Caput Aggeris) originated as a settlement of the Etruscans from Adria. When the Romans occupied the region, they built a system of roads in the region known as the Via Popilia-Annia. So came about in 131 BC. The Via Annia , which the praetor Titus Annius Rufus had built, connected the Hatria (Adriatic) with Patavium ( Padua ), Altinum , Iulia Concordia ( Concordia Sagittaria ), where it crossed the Via Postumia , with Aquileia , and the Via Popilia -Annia , which from Ariminum ( Rimini ) connected Aquileia, Ravenna , Adria and Altinum.

Eastern Stream, Lombards, Venice

After the Eastern Roman Empire succeeded in retaking the region in the war against the Ostrogoths in 554 on the basis of a restoration of the Roman Empire , it was isolated by the incursion of the Lombards into Italy from 568 onwards. Nevertheless, the region remained with Eastern Stream or Byzantium. The city was thus outside the Franconian Empire , which had conquered Northern Italy, but its attempt to conquer the Venetian lagoon failed. In the Peace of Aachen in 812, the Frankish king finally recognized that Venice was part of the Byzantine Empire.

In the Pactum Lotharii , which the Frankish Emperor Lothar I concluded with Venice in 840, Cavarzere ("Caput Argeles") is listed as one of the localities around Venice , along with 17 other settlements . In his pactum, the emperor recognized all the trading privileges of his predecessors and at the same time the fact that Cavarzere did not belong to the empire.

Under the Doge Pietro Tribuno , Venice stepped up its efforts to build a defense system around the lagoon. This effort was triggered by attacks by the Hungarians who penetrated the lagoon in the year 900 . The Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII , author of a work on Byzantine administration, listed the 19 “kastra” that were supposed to secure the border, including Cavarzere. When it came to a conflict between the northern Italian cities and Emperor Frederick I , the combined troops from Padua , Verona and Ferrara forced the abandonment of Cavarzere in early 1162 , but a fleet that was traveling up the Po put the attackers to flight.

At the beginning of December 1511, Venetian troops under Pietro Bembo occupied the city of Adria from Cavarzere.

Palazzo Comunale (Town Hall)

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Commons : Cavarzere  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ^ Adele Di Lorenzo, Bruno Figliuolo, P. Pontari (eds.): Pietro Ranzano: Descriptio totius Italiae , Florenz 2007, p. 354.
  3. ↑ Lorenzo Quilici, Stefania Quilici Gigli: Interventi di bonifica agraria nell'Italia romana , Rome 1995, p. 37.
  4. ↑ Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Capitularia regum Francorum, edited by A. Boretius, Vol. 2, Hanover, 1883-1897, II, n.233, February 23, 840 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ De administrando imperio , ed. By Gy. Moravcsik, RJH Jenkins, Washington, 1967, here: pp. 116-119.