Trip and Tour Planning Guide about History of Emilia Romagna Italy

This description page of Emilia Romagna, will guide you in planning your trip to Italy and help you to find useful travel information about the history of this Italian Region.

Inhabited since very ancient times as revealed from archeological findings, the region was occupied by the Etruscans in the 6th century BC. In the 4th century it was then invaded by the Celts, and then in the third century the Romans conquered it, joining its territory to Liguria. Augustus gave it the name of Aemilia, as the Octava Regio (8th region) of the Empire. The Eastern side of the region was called Romania and it was the political center of the Western Roman Empire in the last decades of its existence.

The Lombard invaders conquered only part of the region, more or less the area of Modena, Parma, Piacenza, and Reggio, while Ravenna and Bologna stayed under the jurisdiction of the surviving Eastern Roman Empire, whose capital was Byzanthium. With the coming of the Franks, the region was entrusted to the Pope, to be politically included in the State of the Church in the early 11th century. When the municipal life started to rise again, in the late middle ages (13th - 14th centuries) such towns as Bologna, Piacenza, Modena, and Reggio enjoyed a remarkable prosperity, also due to the strategic position of the region among the many Italian States of the time and to powerful families, such as the Farnese and Estensi.

After being for centuries a pattern of Dukedoms and States, the region was finally united to the newborn Kingdom of Italy in 1860.

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