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Historical Notes
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A city in northern Italy, founded prior to 300 BC by the Romans as
Patavium.
The poet Dante Alighieri lived there ca 1300.
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Governing Regimes
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The information below on governing regimes in Padua is drawn largely from
the
Encyclopaedia Britannica and
Webster's New Geographical Dictionary (especially the entry
on Venice).
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| 1318 - 1405
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Carrara family
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| 1405 - 1797
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Venice
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| 1797 - 1805
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Austria (to which Venice had been ceded)
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| 1805 - 1815
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Napoleon of France
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| 1815 - 1866
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Austria
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| 1866 - 1946
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Monarchy of a united Italy
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| 1946 -
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Republic
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