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siena
A province in the Tuscany region of Italy.
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siena
A city of Central Italy, about 30 miles southeast from Florence. In the Middle Ages, Siena became one of the powerful city republics of Italy. It embraced the Ghibelline cause, and in conjunction with the forces of Pisa, defeated the Tuscan Guelfs, in the memorable battle of Monte Aperto (1206). Through intestine quarrels it was subjugated by the emperor Charles V., and given to his son in 1555, who ceded it to Cosmo of Tuscany, 1557. It was incorporated with France, 1808-14.
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Siena is a city in the Italian region of Tuscany.
The city has a population of about 54,000 inhabitants. Siena began as an Etruscan settlement under Roman power. In the 12th century it became an independent city with its own government. There were traditionally struggles between Siena and Florence during the middle age and the renaissance.
History.
- 900 to 400 BC: Siena, like other Tuscan hill towns were occuped by Etruscans that chaned the territoris with they big "technology" about irrigation and works with earth.
- 390 Battle of the Allia
- At the time of the Emperor Augustus, a Roman town called "Saena Julia " in the territories before host by etruscans.
- According to legend, Siena was founded by Senius, son of Remus, who was in turn the brother of Romulus, after whom Rome was named, (statues and other paints about the youth of two twins can be seen all over the city of Siena).
- Siena did not prosper under Roman rule. It was not sited near any major roads and therefore missed out on the resulting opportunities for trade.
- 774 BC: the oldest aristocratic families in Siena date their line to the Lombards' surrender to Charlemagne.
- 1115: the death of Countess Matilda, an important point for the history of Siena, because after this the Mark of Tuscia which had been under the control of her family – the Canossa – broke up into several autonomous regions.
- Siena became a major centre of money lending and an important for trade. It was governed at first directly by its Bi
