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Historical Notes
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Founded in 59 BC as Florentia, it later took the modernized
name, Firenze.
Under the early rule of the de Medicis, Florence played a leading role in
the Renaissance.
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Governing Regimes
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The information below on governing regimes in Florence is drawn largely
from the
Encyclopaedia Britannica and
Webster's New Geographical Dictionary.
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| Middle Ages
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Margraviate of Tuscany
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| 13th -14th centuries
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members of wealthy guilds
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| 1434 - 1464
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Cosimo de Medici (Cosimo the Elder) unofficial ruler
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| 1469 - 1492
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Lorenzo de Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent)
unofficial ruler
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| 1494 - 1498
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Republic (under Savonarola)
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| 1512 - 1527
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the de Medicis, unofficial rulers
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| 1527 - 1530
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Emperor Charles V of Spain
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| 1530 - 1537
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the de Medicis, unofficial rulers
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| 1537 - 1574
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Cosimo I de Medici, official Duke of Florence;
after 1569, Grand Duke of Tuscany
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| 1574 - 1737
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the de Medicis, official rulers
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| 1737 - 1824
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outside rulers: Austrian Empire, then Napoleonic
Empire
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| 1824 - 1859
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outside rulers: Leopold II of Hapsburg
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| 1860 - 1946
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Monarchy of a united Italy
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| 1946 -
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Republic
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