A powerful maritime republic that rivalled Venice for Mediterranean trade supremacy, establishing colonies across the Black Sea and North Africa before Napoleon absorbed it in 1797.
Overthrown on 14 June 1797 by Genoese Jacobins aided by French forces, who replaced it with the French client Ligurian Republic; Genoa was annexed by France itself in 1805.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Republic of Genoa — the shape you scrub through changes in 1005 · 1590.
Situates Genoa within the wider Mediterranean commercial world.
A full social and political history of the rival maritime republic across exactly its republican lifespan.
The world of the Italian city-states — broad context for this republic’s politics and culture.