Republic of Ancona (Maritime Republic)

Frontiers of the medieval republic (15th century)

Flag of the Medieval Republic

Ancona coat of arms, of medieval origin

The Republic of Ancona was a medieval maritime republic .

After 1000 Ancona became more and more independent, often conflicting with the nearby force of Venice , which did not accept free ports in the Adriatic . An oligarchic republic, Ancona was ruled by six elders , chosen from the three terzieri into which the city was divided: S. Pietro, Porto and Capodimonte. It had a coin of its own, the Agontano , and a number of laws known as the Statuti del mare e del Terzenale (Laws of the Sea and the Shipyard) and Statuti della Dogana (Customs Laws ).

Ancona was usually allied with the Republic of Ragusa and the Byzantine Empire .

In 1137 ( Lothar III ), and 1167 ( Friedrich I. Barbarossa ) it was strong enough to push back the forces of the Holy Roman Empire . In 1173 Ancona was besieged by Christian I von Buch , Archbishop of Mainz and Arch Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire ; the imperial army was an ally of the Republic of Venice . Ancona won the siege after several months of difficult resistance.

After the siege, the city's prosperous years began with a long period of prosperity, which was favored by lively trade with the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea thanks to the port . Public buildings and churches were built. It had deposits and consulates in Constantinople , Africa ( Alexandria and Tripoli ), Dalmatia ( Ragusa and Segna ), Black Sea ( Trabzon and Constanța ), Levantic Sea ( Akkon , Laodicea , Laiazzo , Cyprus ), Aegean Sea ( Chios ), and Spain ( Barcelona and Valencia ).

Anconitan ships participated in the Crusades , and their navigators included Cyriacus of Ancona ; he is regarded as one of the forerunners of modern classical archeology and one of the first epigraphers . In the battle between the popes and the holy Roman emperors, which troubled Italy from the 12th century, Ancona unilaterally with the Guelphs .

In 1532 the city went to the Papal States through Pope Clement VII . The newly built citadel was used as a Trojan horse.

Agontano , coin of the medieval republic (15th century).
Francesco Podesti , Siege of 1173.
Trade routes and warehouses of the Maritime Republic of Ancona.
St. Cyriacus Cathedral
Medieval town hall ( Palazzo degli Anziani )
Merchants' loggia , with a statue of the city's coat of arms

literature

Repubblica di Ancona (Maritime Republic)

Joachim-Felix Leonhard: The seaside city of Ancona in the late Middle Ages: Politics a. Handel , Niemeyer, Tübingen 1983

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Mario Natalucci, Ancona nel Medioevo , Unione arti grafiche, Città di Castello (1960)
↑ Ancona. In: Encyclopedia Treccani , accessed December 26, 2017.
^ Boncompagno da Signa, Liber de obsidione Anconae , Zanichelli (1937); Boncompagno da Signa, L'assedio di Ancona Viella (1999). ISBN 9788883340000 .
↑ Joachim-Felix Leonhard, The seaside town of Ancona in the late Middle Ages: Politics u. Handel , Niemeyer, Tübingen (1983)
↑ Cyriac of Ancona was the most enterprising and prolific recorder of Greek and Roman antiquities, particularly inscriptions, in the fifteenth century, and the general accuracy of his records entitles him to be called the founding father of modern classical archeology ; Edward W. Bodnar, Later travels , with Clive Foss (2004) ISBN 9780674007581
^ August Daniel Freiherr von Binzer, Heinrich August Pierer, Encyclopaedic dictionary of the sciences, arts and trade, edited by several scholars ; Literature comptoir, 1833.

[mario-1] Mario Natalucci, Ancona nel Medioevo , Unione arti grafiche, Città di Castello (1960)

[2] Ancona. In: Encyclopedia Treccani , accessed December 26, 2017.

[3] Boncompagno da Signa, Liber de obsidione Anconae , Zanichelli (1937); Boncompagno da Signa, L'assedio di Ancona Viella (1999). ISBN 9788883340000 .

[4] Joachim-Felix Leonhard, The seaside town of Ancona in the late Middle Ages: Politics u. Handel , Niemeyer, Tübingen (1983)

[5] Cyriac of Ancona was the most enterprising and prolific recorder of Greek and Roman antiquities, particularly inscriptions, in the fifteenth century, and the general accuracy of his records entitles him to be called the founding father of modern classical archeology ; Edward W. Bodnar, Later travels , with Clive Foss (2004) ISBN 9780674007581

[6] August Daniel Freiherr von Binzer, Heinrich August Pierer, Encyclopaedic dictionary of the sciences, arts and trade, edited by several scholars ; Literature comptoir, 1833.