Society / Sack or Destruction of City

630AD

Event #2277: Many Northern Italian cities are destroyed and razed

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Geographical sites:

Genoa (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #383664)

Genua settlement, port Geocontext: Genoa
Description: Genua was an ancient settlement of Liguria that came to be destroyed by Carthage in 209 BC. Thereafter it received Roman municipal privileges and was rebuilt.
Albenga (click here to focus in map) (see also GeoNames #6539671)

Albenga third-order administrative division Geocontext: Europe/Rome
Varigotti (click here to focus in map) (see also GeoNames #3164693)

Varigotti populated place Geocontext: Europe/Rome
Savona (click here to focus in map) (see also GeoNames #6542009)

Savona third-order administrative division Geocontext: Europe/Rome
Oderzo (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #393459)

Opitergium settlement Description: Opitergium (modern Oderzo) is a settlement of the Veneti along the Piave river located at a junction of the Via Postumia.
Luni (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #403235)

Luna settlement, amphitheatre, port, plaza Description: Luna (the modern Luni) is an ancient settlement of Liguria. It was re-founded by the Romans as a colonial settlement in 177 BC.

Citations:

Text #3157

Fredegar. The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar
[Fred. Chron. 71. Translated by John Michael Wallace-Hadrill. Oxford University Press. 1960 p. 60]

[…] Rothari went with his army and took from the Empire the maritime cities of Genoa, Albenga, Varigotti, Savona, Oderzo and Luni. He ravaged and destroyed them and left them in flames; and the inhabitants, stripped of their belongings, were seized and condemned to servitude. He ordered that these cities should be known only as villages in future; and he razed their walls to the ground.

Text #6450

"Rothari", in Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothari

Rothari conquered Genoa in 641 and the rest of Byzantine Liguria in 643.

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