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Name: bologna

Type: Cluster

Start: 1116 AD

End: 1503 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Bologna Commune
  • Signoria of Bologna
  • Establishment


  • January 1116: Bologna declares itself Free Commune.
  • Chronology


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    1. Italian Wars


    Were a series of conflicts covering the period between 1494 to 1559, fought mostly in the Italian peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and the Mediterranean Sea. The primary belligerents were the Valois kings of France, and their Habsburg opponents in the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.

    1.1.Italian War of 1499-1504

    Was the second of the so-called Italian Wars. The first phase of the war was fought for control of the Duchy of Milan by an alliance of Louis XII of France and the Republic of Venice against Ludovico Sforza, the second between Louis of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon for possession of the Kingdom of Naples.

    1.1.1.Borgia's War in Romagna

    Were a series of military campaigns by Cesare Borgia, the son of the Pope, in central Italy.

  • September 1503: In the period immediately following the First Italian War, Pope Alexander VI had extended, with French help, papal control far beyond central Italy, thus conquering Romagna. Cesare Borgia, as Gonfaloniere of the papal armies, had expelled the Bentivoglios from Bologna, who had governed as a fiefdom, and was moving towards the creation of a permanent state governed by the Borgias.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1251: In 1250 Frederick II died, leaving Forlì the only spiritually pro-imperial city in Romagna. Thanks to the new political climate, Guelph Bologna became the hegemonic city of Romagna in just a few years. Forlì also fell under his rule.

  • January 1255: In 1254 Bologna expelled the pro-imperial families from Imola, imposing its own direct political control over the city.

  • January 1274: Bolognese control of the city of Forlì ceased in 1273.

  • January 1279: In 1278 Pope Nicholas III reduced the expansionist ambitions of Bologna: thus the Bolognese dominion over Imola came to an end, making it a free city again.

  • January 1328: Bologna conquered by the Papal States.

  • January 1335: In 1334, Bologna regained independence from the Papal States.

  • January 1348: Milano conquers Bologna.

  • January 1377: Bologna regains independence.

  • January 1402: In 1401, the family destined to dominate the political life of Bologna for the entire 15th century emerged: the Bentivoglios.

  • January 1403: Milano conquers Bologna.

  • January 1404: Bologna indipendent again.

  • Disestablishment


  • September 1503: In the period immediately following the First Italian War, Pope Alexander VI had extended, with French help, papal control far beyond central Italy, thus conquering Romagna. Cesare Borgia, as Gonfaloniere of the papal armies, had expelled the Bentivoglios from Bologna, who had governed as a fiefdom, and was moving towards the creation of a permanent state governed by the Borgias.
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