History of Genoa

History of the Italian city and former republic

View of the city of Genoa from the belvedere of Castelletto

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History of Italy

Old map of Italian peninsula

Early

Prehistoric Italy
Nuragic civilization (18th–3rd c. BC)
Etruscan civilization (12th–6th c. BC)
Magna Graecia (8th–3rd c. BC)

Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC)
Republic (509 BC–27 BC)
- Roman expansion in Italy
- Roman Italy
- Populares and Optimates
Empire (27 BC–286 AD)
Western Empire (286 AD–476 AD)
- Praetorian prefecture of Italy

Romano-Barbarian Kingdoms

Odoacer's	476–493
Ostrogothic	493–553
Vandal	435–534
Lombard	568–774
Frankish (Carolingian Empire)	774–962
Germanic (Holy Roman Empire)	962–1801

Medieval

Italy in the Middle Ages
Byzantine reconquest of Italy (6th–8th c.)
Islam and Normans in southern Italy
Maritime republics and Italian city-states
Guelphs and Ghibellines

Early modern

Italian Renaissance (14th–16th c.)
Italian Wars (1494–1559)
Catholic revival (1545–1648)
Mid-16th c. to early 19th c.
Napoleonic Italy (1801–1814)

- Republic
- Kingdom

Risorgimento (1815–1871)

Young Italy

Modern

Monarchy (1861–1946)
Colonial Empire (1882–1960)
Italy in World War I (1914–1918)
Fascism (1922–1943)
Italy in World War II (1940–1945)
Fascist Italian Social Republic, Partisans and Italian Civil War (1943–1945)
Republic (1946–present)
Years of Lead (1970s–1980s)
- Maxi Trial (1986–1992)
- Mani pulite (1992–2001)
- Great Recession (2007–2009)
- European migrant crisis (2014–2016)
- COVID-19 pandemic (2020–present)

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Genoa, Italy, has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean.