{"slug": "venosa", "label": "Venosa", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venosa", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52691", "qid": "Q52691", "description": "Italian comune", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-290, 1486], "span_label": ["291 BCE", "1486 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Venusia"], "related": [{"slug": "apulia", "label": "Apulia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "marcus-claudius-marcellus", "label": "Marcus Claudius Marcellus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "skanderbeg", "label": "Skanderbeg", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rene-of-anjou", "label": "René of Anjou", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "benevento", "label": "Benevento", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "appian-way", "label": "Appian Way", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "county-of-apulia-and-calabria", "label": "County of Apulia and Calabria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "guaimar-iv-of-salerno", "label": "Guaimar IV of Salerno", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -290, "year_label": "291 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Postumius captures Cominium Ocritum, the major city of Venusia and other towns, killing 10,000 and capturing 6200. At the proposal of Postumius, the Senate sends 20,000 colonists to occupy Venusia, the largest Roman colony to date. However, angered by the various crimes of Postumius, the Senate does not choose him as one of the leaders of the colony and denies him a triumph.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1115795236#Roman_Republic", "title": "291 BC", "revid": 1115795236, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -207, "year_label": "208 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "The Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus is killed in battle while fighting Hannibal near Venusia, Apulia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364334903#Roman_Republic", "title": "208 BC", "revid": 1364334903, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -189, "year_label": "190 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "One of the main highways in Roman Italy, the Via Appia, is extended to Benevento and Venosa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342606670#Roman_Republic", "title": "190 BC", "revid": 1342606670, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 1043, "year_label": "1043 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Spring – A grand assembly at Melfi, with all the Norman and Lombard nobles acclaim Guaimar IV, duke of Apulia and Calabria. The territories are divided into 12 fiefdoms and distributed among Norman chieftains. William Iron Arm is granted Ascoli as a private fiefdom and his brother Drogo of Hauteville is granted Venosa. Count Rainulf II of Aversa, not present at the assembly, receives Siponto and recognizes Guaimar's suzerainty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365591040#Europe", "title": "1043", "revid": 1365591040, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1461, "year_label": "1461 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 28", "text": "May 28 – In Italy, King Ferdinand of Naples is forced to abandon the city of Venosa, the Albanian general Skanderbeg leads his cavalry in an attack on Venosa after an attack by the former king, Rene of Anjou and by General Jacopo Piccinino. Fleeing to Apulia, Ferdinand learns that the Albanian General Skanderbeg will soon arrive to fight the House of Anjou.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365256665#April–June", "title": "1461", "revid": 1365256665, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1486, "year_label": "1486 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 18", "text": "December 18 – The Conspiracy of the Barons comes to an end when the Aragon troops and King Ferrante recapture the city of Venosa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369024065#October–December", "title": "1486", "revid": 1369024065, "section": "Events › October–December"}}]}