Verona : Italy
Verona (population est. 260,000) is an ancient town, episcopal see and province in the Veneto, Northern Italy. The ancient town, and the centre of the modern city, are in a loop of the Adige River near Lake Garda, and the area was regularly flooded before the Mori-Torbole tunnel (500 cubic metre of discharge from the Adige river to the Garda lake in case of flood danger) was built in 1956. Now a serious flood is predicted once every two centuries, rather than once every seventy years.
History
Verona was supposedly founded by Etruscans or by the Eugaei or Raeti tribes, but the first historical records of its existence are from the 4th century BC. It became a notable political and commercial center during Roman times. During the middle ages, it was the capital of the Italian Kingdom of Theodoric the Great. The city reached the pinnacle of its political influence during the 14th century as the seat of power of the della Scala family (also known as the Scaligeri).
After the Venetian domination (1402-1797), Verona had known the French revolution and become part of the Cisalpine Republic. With the fault of Bonaparte, it become part of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia and one of the fortress group called Quadrilatero.
Verona became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, when it was seized by Italian troops during the Austro-Prussian War.
