X-Nico

18 unusual facts about Republic of Genoa


Arrigo della Rocca

Since 1299, Corsica had been colonized by the Republic of Genoa in a bid to impose its domination over the whole Western Mediterranean against the rival kingdom of Aragon.

Partisan of an aristocratic regime, he was supported by the kingdom of Aragon and opposed by the plebeians and the Republic of Genoa.

Athen family

From this point on, the great families, like the Athen, fade into view to be replaced by the Repubbliche Marinare of northern Italy (Genoa and Pisa) in the power politics of Logudoro.

Bocchetta Pass

During the French Revolutionary Wars the Bocchetta Pass was located in territory belonging to the Republic of Genoa.

François Grimaldi

Francesco Grimaldi (François, in French) called il Malizia ("the Cunning"), was the Genoese leader of the Guelphs who captured the Rock of Monaco on the night of 8 January 1297.

Fregula

This food is typical of the south western part of Sardinia, and was imported by Ligurian immigrants come from the Genoese colony of Tabarka in Tunisia.

Giudicato of Gallura

In 1211, Comita III of Torres confirmed a treaty with the Republic of Genoa, Pisa's traditional rival for Sardinian influence, whereby the two powers — Logudoro and Genoa — would jointly conquer the entire island and put it under Genoese suzerainty with Comita as judge.

Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages

Meanwhile, "Juan de Gages" as he was usually called by his Spanish-Neapolitan soldiers, fought against the Austrians in the Milanese and Piedmont, Parma and Piacenza supported by the Genoese.

Kadifekale

The settlements on the hill and those near the coast had a separate history in certain periods, as it was the case during the 14th century, when the hill castle was captured by the Aydinids, and the port city, with another castle, was held by the Genoese until its capture by Tamerlane in 1403.

Libro d'Oro

In the reformed Republic of Genoa of 1576 the Genoese Libro d'Oro, which had been closed in 1528, was reopened to admit new blood.

Ludovico I, Marquess of Saluzzo

When, in 1458, the Republic of Genoa submitted to Charles VII of France, Ludovico was chosen as governor of that city, but refused the position.

Mithymna

One of the most noticeable features of the town is the old Genoese fortress on the hill in the middle of the town.

Nurbanu Sultan

Some have even suggested that she was poisoned by a Genoese agent.

During her nine years of regency (1574 - 1583), her politics were so pro-Venetian that she was hated by the Republic of Genoa.

Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre

During that conflict, he attempted to relieve the Genoese in Acre in 1258, but was repulsed, which helped decide the struggle for the Venetians.

Sampieru Corsu

Corsu's expertise became most important as France tried to gain the advantage over Habsburg Spain by occupying the strategically located Corsica (also striking the Republic of Genoa, Spain's ally and overlord of the island).

Sarichioi

On one hand, a part of the historians consider that its architecture is reminiscent of the Western manner of planning, and attribute it either to the Genoese, who held several trading posts in the area, or to the Byzantines, who intermittently controlled the region.

Ugone della Volta

He was a peacemaker in the city of Genoa, mediating between the various factions and families at a time when it was growing into a Mediterranean power.


Antoniotto Adorno

The Most Serene Prince Antoniotto Adorno (1340 – Finale Ligure, 1398) was the 6th doge of the Republic of Genoa and rose four times to this supposedly lifelong position.

Bartholomew Columbus

Born in the Republic of Genoa, in the 1470s Bartholomew was a mapmaker in Lisbon, the principal center of cartography of the time, and conceived with his brother the "Enterprise of the Indies", a scheme to reach the Orient and its lucrative spice trade by a western rather than an eastern route.

Battle of Sapienza

The Genoese fleet under Paganino Doria captured the Venetian fleet under Niccolò Pisani at the harbour of Sapienza or Porto Longo, near the fortress of Modon (mod. Methoni) in southern Greece.

Corniglia

In 1254 Pope Innocent IV gave it to Nicolò Fieschi, who held it until 1276, when the village was acquired by the Republic of Genoa.

Giuseppe Badaracco

He worked also in Corse (at that time part of the Republic of Genoa), where he painted locally influential paintings for some churches around Bastia.

Guglielma Pallavicini

In 1327, Guglielma married the Genoese Zaccaria, who had been captured while repelling, alongside Andrea Cornaro, an invasion of Alfonso Fadrique of Athens.

Leonardo Montaldo

Leonardo Montaldo or di Montaldo (1319 – 14 June 1384), politician and statesman who became the 7th doge of the Republic of Genoa.

Manuel Pessanha

Manuel Pessanha (Portuguese translation of Italian Emanuele Pessagno) was a Genoese merchant sailor who served in Portugal in the 14th century as the first admiral of Portugal at the time of King Denis of Portugal.

Nicolò Guarco

Nicolò Guarco (Parodi, c.1325-Lerici, c.1385) was a Genoese politician and statesman who became the 7th doge of the Republic of Genoa and led the Republic through the War of Chioggia against Venice.

Sanjak of Sakız

A possession of the Genoese Maona company since 1346, Chios (and its attendant islets of Psara and Oinousses) was conquered without resistance by the Ottoman Empire in 1566, as a recompense for the failure to capture Malta the previous year, and annexed as a sanjak of the Eyalet of the Archipelago.

Şehzade Halil

Phocaea was a Byzantine fort recently captured from Republic of Genoa and commanded by Leo Kalothetos.

Thalassocracy

Later, northern Italy developed its own trade empires based on Pisa and especially the powerful Republic of Genoa, that rivaled with Venice (these three, along with Amalfi, were to be called the Repubbliche marinare, i.e. Sea Republics).