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Venosa

Italian comune

6 dated entries naming Venosa, drawn from 6 separate years between 291 BCE and 1486 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Venusia in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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3rd century BC

  • 291 BCEPostumius 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.source
  • 208 BCEThe Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus is killed in battle while fighting Hannibal near Venusia, Apulia.source

2nd century BC

  • 190 BCEOne of the main highways in Roman Italy, the Via Appia, is extended to Benevento and Venosa.source

11th century

  • 1043Spring – 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.source

15th century

  • 1461May 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.source
  • 1486December 18 – The Conspiracy of the Barons comes to an end when the Aragon troops and King Ferrante recapture the city of Venosa.source

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