Romagna
The Romagna (dt until the 19th century as well. Romanei ) is a historical region in northern Italy between the Apennines and the Adriatic Sea , the Republic of San Marino and Ravenna , which - with a short interruption - never constituted a political entity. Important cities are Ravenna, Imola , Faenza , Cervia , Forlì , Cesena and the seaside resort of Rimini .
The name Romagna originated as Romania in the Lombard times, with which they referred to the area that remained under Byzantine sovereignty ( Exarchate of Ravenna ), in contrast to their own possessions, Langobardia or Lombardy .
With the as Pippi niche donation designated certificate (754/756) of the arrived Kirchenstaat in the possession of the Romagna , he could away difficult to implement for centuries against the claims of Kaiser one hand and the upper Italian cities other. Only when Rudolf von Habsburg renounced Romagna in 1278 did it become clear. However, it was hardly possible to speak of the rule of the church over the landscape, because its feudal vicars were very unauthorized and the Romagna still permeated Romagna with small lords for more than two centuries.
Cesare Borgia , the son of Pope Alexander VI. , tried to create his own domain with Romagna , the Duchy of Romagna , which he succeeded in between 1499 and 1503 . Failing himself because he went under with the death of his father, he had shattered the old political landscape. His legacy was a further step towards the consolidation of the papal state.
1509 has been Romagna incorporated into the Papal States, where it until Risorgimento also remained. The only exception in the 350 years was the time of Napoleon , who incorporated Romagna into the Cisalpine Republic ( 1797 ), renamed the Italian Republic in 1802 and became the Kingdom of Italy in 1805 ; the Congress of Vienna restored the old order here too. In 1859 Romagna split off from the Papal States under a provisional government. For a six-month transition period, Romagna formed an independent state with its own postal service until, after a referendum in March 1860, it joined the Kingdom of Sardinia and thereby became part of Italy in 1861 .
The Romagna is today with the Emilia the Region Emilia-Romagna . Historical Romagna includes the provinces of Ravenna , Forlì-Cesena , Rimini and the municipalities of Imola , Dozza and the Santerno Valley in the metropolitan city of Bologna .
Web links
- Article in Meyer's Großes Konversationslexikon from 1909 , accessed August 25, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on the history of the Papal States , accessed on August 25, 2011
- ↑ Postal history of the Italian states ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 25, 2011
