{"slug": "reggio-calabria", "label": "Reggio Calabria", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggio_Calabria", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8471", "qid": "Q8471", "description": "commune of Italy", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [-473, 1006], "span_label": ["474 BCE", "1006 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "saracens", "label": "Saracens", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "southern-italy", "label": "Southern Italy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "republic-of-venice", "label": "Republic of Venice", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republic-of-genoa", "label": "Republic of Genoa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mediterranean-sea", "label": "Mediterranean Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republic-of-pisa", "label": "Republic of Pisa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "march", "label": "March", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "february", "label": "February", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ifriqiya", "label": "Ifriqiya", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "emirate-of-sicily", "label": "Emirate of Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "naples", "label": "Naples", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -473, "year_label": "474 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Taras signs an alliance with Rhegion, to counter the Messapians, Peucetians, and Lucanians, but the joint armies of the Tarentines and Rhegines are defeated near Kailia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598367#Italy", "title": "474 BC", "revid": 1360598367, "section": "Events › By place › Italy"}}, {"year": -459, "year_label": "460 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The construction of a sculpture of a Young Warrior (subsequently found in the sea off Riace, Italy) is begun and completed approximately ten years later. It is now preserved at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Reggio Calabria, Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173290#Arts", "title": "460 BC", "revid": 1354173290, "section": "Events › By topic › Arts"}}, {"year": 4, "year_label": "4 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "AD 4 – Julia the Elder returns from exile to live in Rhegium in disgrace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365712040#Roman_Empire", "title": "0s", "revid": 1365712040, "section": "Events › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 536, "year_label": "536 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Gothic War (535–554): Belisarius crosses the Strait of Messina and invades Italy. He conquers the city of Rhegium and advances to Naples.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362906459#Eastern_Roman_(\"Byzantine\")_Empire", "title": "536", "revid": 1362906459, "section": "Events › By place › Eastern Roman (\"Byzantine\") Empire"}}, {"year": 901, "year_label": "901 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 10", "text": "June 10 – Abu Abbas Abdallah crosses the Strait of Messina and proceeds to Reggio Calabria. Appearing before its walls, the Byzantine garrison flees, surrendering the city to the Aghlabids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345013381#Europe", "title": "901", "revid": 1345013381, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 902, "year_label": "902 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February", "text": "February – March – Abu Abbas Abdallah, conqueror of Reggio Calabria, returns from Sicily and succeeds his father Ibrahim II as Aghlabid emir of Ifriqiya.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130244#Europe", "title": "902", "revid": 1341130244, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1005, "year_label": "1005 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – The Republic of Pisa conducts a military offensive against the Saracen strongholds in Southern Italy. The Pisan fleet sacks the city of Reggio Calabria. Pisa becomes one of the four commercial Maritime Republics (the other three are Genoa, Venice and Amalfi), which fight each other for control of the Mediterranean Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341910116#Europe", "title": "1005", "revid": 1341910116, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1006, "year_label": "1006 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – An Arab Saracen fleet appears before Pisa, but departs again. The Pisans take their fleet to sea and chase the Arabs down to Southern Italy where, in the Battle of Reggio Calabria, the Pisan fleet defeats the Arabs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1344800605#Europe", "title": "1006", "revid": 1344800605, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}