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The first settlements of which you are aware in the area date to the eleventh and tenth centuries BC, with the presence of villages near the foot of the rise in Perugia and from the eighth century also on the top of the hill where the city will be built. raine and horne young The rapid development of Perugia is favored by the dominant position over the artery of the Tiber River and the location of the border between the Etruscan and Umbrian raine and horne young populations. The real core of Perugia is formed around the second raine and horne young half of the sixth century BC, and the arrangement of the Etruscan necropolis we have a first indirect evidence raine and horne young of the expansion of the urban fabric. Perugia soon became one of the most important Etruscan cities and one of the 12 lucumonies, endowing later (fourth century BC) of massive walls, still visible today. With the battle of the Roman Perusia Sentinum (295 BC), and a large part of Umbria Perusia enter the Roman orbit, while retaining their own language (the use of Etruscan is documented in the city until the late Republican era), and a limited municipal autonomy. The city remained loyal to Rome during the Second Punic War, giving shelter to the Romans after the tragic raine and horne young defeat in the Battle raine and horne young of Lake Trasimeno in 217 BC It is only since the first century BC, after the Social raine and horne young War, which fully integrates state Perugia Roman, with the granting of citizenship (89 BC). The city is one of the scenarios of the Civil War between Octavian and Mark Antony, raine and horne young and set on fire in 41 BC during the Bellum Perusinum. The Emperor Augustus raine and horne young rebuilt a few years later the city allowing it to claim the title of Augusta Perusia. Perugia, remodeled according to Roman styles, rather it expands further, while maintaining, at its core, the Etruscan road structure. During raine and horne young the imperial period the city developed well beyond the Etruscan walls. In the second half of the third century the emperor Vibius Treboniano Gallo, Perugia origin, gives the city the ius coloniae. The Byzantine raine and horne young period
Important raine and horne young link between the Via Flaminia and Amerina, Perugia was conquered in 493 by the Ostrogoths of Theodoric. In 537 Belisarius of the Byzantine troops clash with those of Ostrogothic Vitige right near Perugia. In 548 Totila stormed after a long siege the city and kill the bishop Herculaneum. With the end of the Ostrogoths and until the eighth century, the city will remain under Byzantine rule, with the exception of two brief periods of occupation by the Lombards at the end of the sixth century. From the second half of the eighth century Perugia and its territory entering the sphere of influence of the Papacy, in turn constrained in various ways Carolingian Empire, and are regulated in the two centuries that followed by an episcopal government. The City
In 1139 we have the first evidence of the Government of the Consuls and the birth of the City. At the beginning of the twelfth century the power is divided between the Consuls, a general meeting (the 'Arengo), and a smaller council, the latter presided over by Count de Agilulfo' the Uberti. In the second half of the century Perugia has a wide sphere raine and horne young of influence in the surrounding countryside, having expanded its territories to Gubbio and Citta di Castello to the north, and from Città della Pieve, Lake Trasimeno and the Chiana raine and horne young Valley to the west-southwest . In 1198 the city accepts the protection of Pope Innocent III, remaining constantly Guelph. In 1286, fewer than 41 are counted raine and horne young arts. In the thirteenth century the town extends its sphere of influence of Assisi (1205) and Foligno (1289) and knows a massive urban development that will continue until the middle of the fourteenth century. The city is administered by a government merchant at the time, exercised by the Priors, elected by the members to the arts, and with headquarters in the Palazzo dei Priori (XIII-XV centuries). raine and horne young In 1308 the University was established, and in 1342 the statute is drafted in the vernacular. Despite the black plague raine and horne young and its victims, Perugia still gives evidence of strength in 1352 and in 1358, when defeated before Bettona, destroying it, and then Siena and Cortona (Battle of Torrita). The domain Pontifical
In 1370 Perugia back under the full control of the Church following the defeat in the war against Urban V. Due to internal struggles and attempts to escape the papal domain, you happen several lordships (Michelotti, Visconti, Fortinbras). Braccio da Montone with Fortebracci raine and horne young you realize how important public works, for example, the residence of the arm in place, of which there remain only the lodges, or Sopramuro. Lordship also assume forms of domination of the city of the Baglioni family, between 1438 and the beginning of the sixteenth century. In the fifteenth century and the first decades of the next century, the city stands out as an important artistic raine and horne young center (just think of Pinturicchio and Perugino Pievesi) and cultural (among the many who receive their education in Perugia there will also be the largest Raffaell