March of Ancona Marca Anconitana | |||||||||||||
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| 1100–1798 | |||||||||||||
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 The march in a map of 1564 by Vincenzo Luchino. | |||||||||||||
| Status | March of the Kingdom of Italy (1100–1198) Territory of the Papal States (1198–1798) | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Ancona (until 1210) Fermo (1210–15th century) Macerata (15th century–1798) | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||||||
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The March of Ancona (Italian: Marca Anconitana or Anconetana) was a frontier march centred on the city of Ancona and later Fermo then Macerata in the Middle Ages.[1] Its name is preserved as an Italian region today, the Marche, and it corresponds to almost the entire modern region and not just the Province of Ancona.