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| Status | Region |
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| Capital | Ancona |
| President | Gian Mario Spacca (DL-Union) |
| Provinces | 5 |
| Area | 9,694 km² |
| - Ranked | 15th (3. Ancona (Ankon is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of central Italy, population 101909 (2005 Democracy Is Freedom – The Daisy ( Democrazia è Libertà – La Margherita, DL was a centrist Italian political party. The Union ( Italian: L'Unione) was an Italian Centre-left Political party coalition led by Romano Prodi, the In Italy, a Province (in Italian provincia) is an administrative division of intermediate level between Municipality ( Comune Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of These are ranked lists of the regions of Italy. Population figures are from 2001 2 %) |
| Population (2006 est. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology ) | |
| - Total | 1,542,106 |
| - Ranked | 6th (2. These are ranked lists of the regions of Italy. Population figures are from 2001 6 %) |
| - Density | 159/km² |
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The Marche (plural, originally from le marche de Ancona, referring to the March of Ancona) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume is a Tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. The March of Ancona or marca Anconitana (also Anconetana) was a frontier march centred on the city of Macerata in the
It is located in the Central area of the country, bordering Emilia-Romagna and the republic of San Marino to the north, Tuscany to the north-west, Umbria to the west, Abruzzo and Lazio to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the east. Central Italy is a geographic area in Italy that encompasses four of the country's 20 autonomous regions: Lazio Marches Emilia-Romagna is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. The capital is Bologna. The Most Serene Republic of San Marino (Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino is a country in the Apennine Mountains. Tuscany (Toscana is a region in Italy. It has an area of 22990 km² and a population of about 3 Umbria is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. The capital is Perugia. For the football club see SS Lazio Lazio ( Latium in Latin) is a regione of central Except for river valleys and the often very narrow coastal strip, the land is hilly. In the nineteenth century, a railway from Bologna to Brindisi linked the Marche along the coastline of the entire territory. Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy Brindisi can also refer to a song in which a company is exhorted to drink such as the "Tea-Cup Brindisi" in Gilbert and Sullivan 's " The Inland, the mountainous nature of the region, even today, allows little communication north and south, except by rough roads over the passes.
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History
The Marche were known in ancient times as the Picenum territory. Picenum was a Region of ancient Roman Italy. Picenum was the birthplace of such notables as Pompey the Great and his father Pompeius Strabo The coastal area was occupied by the Senones, a tribe of Gauls. The Senones were a Gallic people of Gallia Celtica, who in the time of Julius Caesar inhabited the district which now includes the departments of Gaul (Gallia was the Roman name for the region of Western Europe comprising present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western They were conquered by the Romans after the Battle of Sentinum in 295 BC. Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC The Battle of Sentinum was the decisive battle of the Third Samnite War, fought in 295 BC near Sentinum (next to Sassoferrato The Romans founded numerous colonies in the areas, connecting them to Rome by the Via Flaminia and the Via Salaria. The Via Flaminia was a Roman road leading from Rome to Ariminum ( Rimini) and was the most important route to the north The Via Salaria was an ancient Roman road in Italy. It eventually ran from Rome (from Porta Salaria of the Aurelian Walls Ascoli was a seat of Italic resistance during the Social War (91–88 BC). Ascoli Piceno is a town in the Marche region Italy, capital of the province of the same name This article is about the conflict between Rome and her Italian allies between 91 and 88 BC For the Athenian conflict with its allies between 357 and 355 BC see
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the region was invaded by the Goths. The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285 the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern The Goths ( Gothic: Gothic usvg|14px|u]]Gothic asvg|14px|a]]Gothic s After the Gothic War, it was part of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna (Ancona, Fano, Pesaro, Rimini, and Senigallia forming the so-called Pentapolis). See Gothic War (376-382 for the war on the Danube The Gothic War was a war fought in Italy and the adjoining regions of Dalmatia, Sardinia The Exarchate of Ravenna or of Italy was a centre of Byzantine power in Italy, from the end of the 6th century to 751, when the Ancona (Ankon is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of central Italy, population 101909 (2005 This article is about the Italian town For the Danish island see Fanø. Pesaro is a town and Comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. Senigallia or Sinigaglia is a Comune and port town on Italy 's Adriatic coast 25 km by rail north of Ancona in the Marche region A pentapolis, from the Greek words penta 'five' and Polis 'city(-state' is geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities After the fall of the Exarchate it was briefly in the possession of the Lombards, but was conquered by Charlemagne in the late eighth century. Charlemagne (ˈʃɑrlɨmeɪn Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus meaning Charles the Great) (747 – 28 January 814 was King of the Franks from 768 to his In the ninth to eleventh centuries the marches of Camerino, Fermo and Ancona were created, whence the modern name. Camerino is small town of 7000 inhabitants in the Marches ( Marche region in the Province of Macerata, Italy. Fermo (ancient Firmum Picenum) is a town and Comune of the Marche, Italy, previously in the Province of Ascoli The March of Ancona or marca Anconitana (also Anconetana) was a frontier march centred on the city of Macerata in the
The Marche were nominally part of the Papal States, but most of the territory was under local lords, while the major cities ruled themselves as free communes. The Papal States, State(s of the Church or Pontifical States (in Italian Stato Ecclesiastico, Stato della Chiesa, Stati della Chiesa In the twelfth century, the commune of Ancona resisted both the imperial authority of Frederick Barbarossa and the Republic of Venice, and was a maritime republic on its own. Frederick I Barbarossa (1122 &ndash 10 June 1190) was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned The Most Serene Republic of Venice ((Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta or Repùblica de Venesia Serenissima Repubblica An attempt to restore Papal suzerainty by Gil de Albornoz in the fourteenth century was short-lived. Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz ( Italian: Egidio Albornoz; 1310 - August 23 1367) was a Spanish cardinal and
During the Renaissance, the region was fought over by rival aristocratic families, such as the Malatesta of Rimini, Pesaro, Fano and the house of Montefeltro of Urbino. The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere The House of Malatesta was an Italian family that ruled over Rimini from 1295 until 1500, as well as (in different periods other lands and towns in Pesaro is a town and Comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. This article is about the Italian town For the Danish island see Fanø. Montefeltro is a historical-geographic region in the Marche, which was historically part of Romagna. Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region in Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical The last independent entity, the Duchy of Urbino, was dissolved in 1631, and from then on, the Marche were firmly part of the Papal States except during the Napoleonic period, which saw the short lived Republic of Ancona created in 1797, the merging of the region with the Roman Republic and the Kingdom of Italy from 1808 to 1813, and then a short occupation by Joachim Murat. The Duchy of Urbino was a sovereign state of northern Italy The first lords of Urbino were the Montefeltro who obtained the title of counts from Emperor Frederick The Papal States, State(s of the Church or Pontifical States (in Italian Stato Ecclesiastico, Stato della Chiesa, Stati della Chiesa The Roman Republic (Repubblica Romana was proclaimed on February 15, 1798 after Louis Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded The Kingdom of Italy ( Italian: Regno d'Italia, but also Regno Italico; 17 March 1805 – 11 April Joachim-Napoléon Murat (born Joachim Murat) ( Gioacchino Napoleone Murat) ( March 25 1767 &ndash October 13 1815) After Napoleon's defeat, the Marche returned to Papal rule until November 4, 1860, when it was annexed to the unified Kingdom of Italy by a plebiscite. Events 1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani Year 1860 ( MDCCLX) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year starting Italian Unification ( Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence" was the political and social movement that unified different states of the Italian A referendum (plural referendums or referenda) ballot question, or plebiscite (from Latin plebiscita
Geography
The region is predominantly mountainous, with few coastal plains in which are concentrated almost all major urban centres and economic activity.
The Marche are divided into five provinces:
Economy
Under the traditional mezzadria system, in which products are equally divided between owners and cultivators of the land, the rather unproductive soil and difficult terrain was highly cultivated. The Province of Ancona ( Provincia di Ancona) is a province in the Marche region of central Italy. The Province of Ascoli Piceno (Provincia di Ascoli Piceno is a province in the Marche region of Italy. The Province of Fermo was constituted by Italian law in 2004 and is the fifth Province of the Marche Region The Province of Macerata (Provincia di Macerata is a province in the Marche region of Italy. The Province of Pesaro and Urbino (Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino is a province in the Marche region of Italy. In modern times, the shoemaking, paper, furniture and shipbuilding industries were developed in the Marche. The port of Ancona is the only really good harbour, but other small harbours are used by fishing fleets: the Marche thus furnished a large number of sailors to the Italian navy.
Politics
The Marche form, along with Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria, the Italian "Red Quadrilateral", a strongly left-wing area. In the April 2006 elections, the people of Marche gave 55% of their votes to Romano Prodi. In the Italian general election 2006 for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy held on April 9 and April 10, 2006 (born 9 August 1939 is an Italian politician and statesman He served as President of the Council of Ministers (prime minister of Italy twice from 17 May
Demographics
In 2006, the Italian national institute of statistics (ISTAT) estimated that 81,890 foreign-born immigrants live in Marche, 5. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ( Istat) is the Italian national statistical institute 3% of total regional population.
Towns of Marche with a population of 50,000 or more:
| City | Population (2006 est. ) |
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| Ancona | 101,862 |
| Pesaro | 91,955 |
| Fano | 62,455 |
| Ascoli Piceno | 51,732 |
See also
External links
- Official regional website
- iMarche: Accommodations, gallery, history and more (Italian) (English)
- Map of Marche
- Marche Voyager
- Food and life in Le Marche
- Drawing on Experience, a sketchbook of Le Marche
- Gazetteer of the Marche
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