Historical Notes
A city in northern Italy, founded prior to 300 BC by the Romans as Patavium. The poet Dante Alighieri lived there ca 1300.
Governing Regimes
The information below on governing regimes in Padua is drawn largely from the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Webster's New Geographical Dictionary (especially the entry on Venice).
1318 - 1405	Carrara family
1405 - 1797	Venice
1797 - 1805	Austria (to which Venice had been ceded)
1805 - 1815	Napoleon of France
1815 - 1866	Austria
1866 - 1946	Monarchy of a united Italy
1946 -	Republic