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Florentia ((mod. Firenze, Florence)) Reference library
Edward Togo Salmon and T. W. Potter
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
may have been in existence by the mid-first cent.
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World Encyclopedia
Capital of Tuscany and Firenze province, on the River Arno, Italy. Initially an Etruscan town, it was a Roman colony
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Coming into existence at the foot of Etruscan Fiesole, Roman Florentia (Ital. Firenze) was a typical colonial foundation. We
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
The principal city of Tuscany, is situated on both banks of the river Arno. The territory of Florence included Fiesole, on the hill above the city, but the ...
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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
1. Before 1532 2. 1532 onwards
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Founded in the 3rd century
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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
in Tuscany, was in Chaucer's day a powerful republican city-state, turbulent and creative. Its textile industry and its commerce and
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William Caferro
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
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The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
The city-state of Florence may be credited with giving birth to the Renaissance in the mid-fourteenth century, nearly a century
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Alexander Kazhdan and R. Bruce Hitchner
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(Φλωρεντία), city in Tuscany. In the late Roman period the city's territory decreased significantly, though the legend that Florence was destroyed by ...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
Italian city and capital of Tuscany. 1. Hardstones. 2. Porcelain. 3. Tapestry.
