Republic of Ancona

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The Anconesian Republic (Italian: Repubblica Anconitana ) is a short-lived subsidiary republic of the French Revolution in the central Italian Marche . As early as the Middle Ages , there had been an independent Maritime Republic of Ancona (Italian: Repubblica di Ancona ) since the 11th century , before it fell under papal rule in 1532 .

Republic of Ancones

Flag of the modern republic

As a result of his Italian campaign , the French general Napoleon Bonaparte created a separate republic in Ancona on November 19, 1797, on the territory of the Papal States occupied by French troops , which was annexed to Rome on March 7, 1798 after the French had established a Roman republic there .

In addition to the city of Ancona, the republic also included the municipalities of Senigallia , Jesi , Macerata , Pesaro , Urbania , Urbino and Fano . The affairs of state were conducted by a consul .

Settimana Rossa ("Red Week")

As part of an anti-war uprising, barricade fighting broke out in Ancona in June 1914 (“Red Week”); for Romagna and the Marches a republic was again proclaimed by socialist workers and trade unionists; the uprising was suppressed by up to 100,000 royal soldiers.

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Repubblica Anconitana (Subsidiary Republic)

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