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    Principality of Pavia (Lombard: Principaa de Pavia, Italian: Principato di Pavia) was an historic division of the Duchy of Milan, which was ranked as a...
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    The province of Pavia (Italian: provincia di Pavia) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is Pavia. As of 2015[update], the province...
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    invasion of Italy was almost unopposed. By late 569, they had conquered all of northern Italy and the principal cities north of the Po River except Pavia, which...
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    The Duchy of Benevento (after 774, Principality of Benevento) was the southernmost Lombard duchy in the Italian Peninsula that was centred on Benevento...
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    in Pavia. By January 895, Lambert could take up residence in the royal capital. In that same year, his cousin Guy IV conquered the Principality of Benevento...
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  • University of Pavia active. 1488 - Cathedral of San Martino construction begins. 1495 - Certosa di Pavia (monastery) built near town. 1499 - Principality of Pavia...
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    Lombards captured the northern city of Pavia after a siege of three years and established the first capital city of their new Kingdom. As time progressed...
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    cities of Milan and Pavia open their doors to Arnulf. Emperor Guy III escapes from Pavia, to hide in the mountains of Spoleto (Umbria). March – Arnulf of Carinthia...
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    kingdom and the center of its political life was Pavia in the modern northern Italian region of Lombardy. The Lombard invasion of Italy was opposed by the...
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    to a daughter of Ludovico Sforza, died fighting for the French at the battle of Pavia. The condottiere Ferdinando Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno (d. 1507)...
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    comprised large parts of northern and central Italy. Its original capital was Pavia until the 11th century. Following the fall of the Western Roman Empire...
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    proclaimed king of Italy, at the capital of Pavia in Lombardy. Summer – Orso, Lombard prince of Benevento, is deposed after the capture of Benevento by the...
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    before being killed at the Battle of Pavia in 1525. In 1485 he had wed the princesse du sang Gabrielle de Bourbon, daughter of Louis I, comte de Montpensier...
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    Cremona, Pavia, Piacenza, Novara, Vercelli, Lodi, Crema and the Marquisate of Monferrato, under the leadership of Alberto Scotti. After the capture of Pietro...
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    besiege the main Gothic base at Ticinum (Pavia). At that point, however, the Visigoths intervened, the siege of Ticinum was lifted, and Odoacer was decisively...
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    later known as Crown of Aragon, while the County of Barcelona and the other Catalan counties merged into a state, the Principality of Catalonia, which developed...
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    Pavia Henry, on his way back from the Walk to Canossa, vested Patriarch Sieghard of Beilstein with immediate comital rights in the Friulian lands of Verona...
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    was granted the rule over the Duchy of Carinthia, a Frankish vassal state and successor of the ancient Principality of Carantania by his father, after Carloman...
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  • This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of France from 987 until the abolition of the French monarchy on 21 September 1792. For specific battles...
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    France Spring – Rudolf II of Burgundy is elected by the Italian insurgents as king of Italy in Pavia. Emperor Berengar I of Italy asks the Hungarians...
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    domnitor (prince) of the Romanian Principalities through his double election as Prince of Moldavia on 5 January 1859 and Prince of Wallachia on 24 January...
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    and captured Francis I at the Battle of Pavia in 1525, he forced Francis to sign a treaty recognizing him as Duke of Burgundy, but Francis disavowed the...
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    towns, in 569 the Lombards conquered Milan.[citation needed] They took Pavia after a three-year siege in 572 and made it their capital. In subsequent...
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    accusations against Pope Leo and held a Diet at Pavia. He confirmed the usurping regent Peter as prince of Salerno in December 853, displacing the dynasty...
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    The Lombards soon overran most of the peninsula, establishing a Kingdom with capital in Pavia, divided into a series of dukedoms. The areas in central-northern...
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    his death in Pavia, Italy, the principality of Calenberg-Göttingen reverted to his first cousin once-removed Duke Julius, who was Prince of Wolfenbüttel...
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    until Charles V. They were crowned in Pavia, Milan and Bologna. In 1805, Napoleon I was crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy at the Milan Cathedral. The...
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    effective defeat of the Catalan Revolt which had lasted since 1640, being the Principality of Catalonia reincorporated into the Monarchy of Spain. Although...
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    This is a list of the oldest existing universities in continuous operation in the world. Inclusion in this list is determined by the date at which the...
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    with the départements of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. Lombardy included the provinces of Milan, Como, Bergamo, Brescia, Pavia, Cremona, Mantua, Lodi-Crema...
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