padua Capital of the Province of Padua, in the Region Veneto, Italy.
padua Province of the region Veneto, Italy.
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padua (anc. Patavium, It. Padova). A town of Italy, capital of the
province of the same name. It is surrounded by walls and ditches, and is
fortified by bastions. Patavium was founded by the Trojan chief Antenor,
and according to Strabo, it could send an army of 120,000 men into the
field. The Patavians were constantly at war with, and successfully
withstood, the Cisalpine Gauls; and in 301 B.C. they also defeated
Cleonymus the Lacedæmonian, who had unexpectedly landed at the mouth of
the Medoacus (the modern Brenta), and attacked them. Patavium fell
eventually under the power of Rome, though it seems to have retained a
semblance of independence. In 452 its prosperity came suddenly to an
end, when it was taken and destroyed by Attila; and in 601 it was again
taken and burnt to the ground by Agilulf, king of the Longobards. It
rose, however, from its ashes, and in the 10th century it had already
become, as it has continued, one of the most important cities of Upper
Italy. In 1164 Padua formed, with Verona, Vicenza, and Treviso, a league
for the protection of their liberties against Frederick I. (Barbarossa);
in 1167 it joined the great Lombard League; and by the peace of
Constance in 1183 had at length its liberties acknowledged. In 1239,
Eccelino da Romano made himself master of it, and after having practiced
unheard-of cruelties, in 1256 he was driven out and defeated by a
crusade formed against him by most of the towns in Upper Italy. After a
period of stormy independence, Padua in 1337 fell under the sway of the
house of Carrara, who held it till the year 1405, when it was taken by
the republic of Venice, with which, in 1797, it passed into the hands of
Austria, by the treaty of Campo Formio. In 1866 it was ceded to
Napoleon III., and by him transferred to the kingdom of Italy.
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Padua (it:Padova) is an Italian city near to Venice.
It has about 210,000 inhabitants.
The old myth says, Padua was founded by the Trojan Aeneas. There was a settlement since the 4th century before Christ. It got under Roman power in 215 B.C. In 426 A.D. Padua became destroyed by Attila. Narses reconstructed the city, but the Langobardes destroyed it a second time. Charles, the Great got Padua in 774 under power of the Francs, later the city joined the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation.
After struggles with Frederic Barbarossa it declared peace in 1177. In 1222 the second university of Italy was founded in Padua. The Gulfs got Padua in 1256, later the Republic of Venice got control about the city until Napoleon Bonaparte got it.
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