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The Italian War (1521–1526) – Four Years War

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Background In 1518, the world established in Western Europe after the battle of Marignano staggered. The cause of contention between the leading powers was the...
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War of the Cambrai League – Franco-Venetian Union (1513-1516)

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The French king Louis the whole of 1512 tried to separate Venice from the Holy League, and in the fall he succeeded. Negotiations continued...
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Second Italian War – Italian War of 1499–1504

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Milanese Prelude Louis XII, like his predecessor (Charles VIII, who died in 1498), had dynastic claims for the crowns of Naples and Milan (he presented...
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War of the Cambrai League – Holy League (1511–1513)

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Returning to Rome, the pope decided to create a new union, which would include, together with the papal state, Venice, Spain, England and, if...
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War of the Cambrai League – Venetian-Papal Union (1510-1511)

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The causes of the war At the turn of the 15th – 16th centuries, Venice still did not feel the full consequences of the Great...
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Byzantine-Norman Wars

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By 1057, a significant part of Calabria and a number of cities along the coast of Apulia remained under Byzantium rule. The expulsion of...
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Norman Conquest of Southern Italy

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In 999, Norman pilgrims, returning from the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, landed in Salerno, where they were hospitably received by Prince Guaimar III. At...
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History of The Genoese Republic

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The Genoese republic had possessions in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region, which it used as trading points. Of these were the islands...
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Medieval History

The Great Famine (1315-1317)

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The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (sometimes the period of 1315–1322 is given) is the first in a series of large-scale disasters of the late...
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History of The East Frankish Kingdom

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The Eastern Frankish Kingdom is a state created as a result of the Treaty of Verdun (843) of the Frankish Empire as the hereditary...
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Ancient History

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

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The transition from the republic to the imperial form of government led to a gradual erosion of the institutions of civil society. The Senate...
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Chronicle Spreading of the Black Plague

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The epidemic had a period of "forerunners". In the period from 1100 to 1200, plague epidemics were observed, but the plague also penetrated into...
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