Bologna : Bologna, Italy
Bologna is a city of northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines[?]. Bologna was a Roman colony which survived as a medieval city to become a centre of learning and then a major city of the Renaissance papal states. Its townscape is enriched by elegant and extensive arcades.The University of Bologna[?] received a charter from Frederick I Barbarossa in 1158, but it is clear that organized teaching and research had been ongoing since at least the 1080s.
The university was especially famous for its teaching in canon and civil law.
Gratian and Irnerius[?], two of the formative influences on legal study both taught at the university in the 12th Century (and Copernicus was also there to study in 1495).
The city was one of the first European settlements to experiment with the concept of "free" public transport.
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history had yet recorded, and on which the attention of Europe was for a
Having been at last thoroughly fortified according to the principles of
and whence forays upon the obedient Flemings could very successfully be
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The States of Flanders declared it to be a thorn in the Belgic lion's
last, besides an extraordinary sum of 300,000, of which one third was to
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troublesome, the process would be accomplished within a reasonable time.
Flanders. Asking how long the Duke of Parma had been in taking Antwerp,
willing to employ eighteen years in reducing Ostend.
The town thus about to assume so much importance in the world's eye had
It fronted directly upon the seacoast and stretched backward in a
swampy, spongy soil on the inner verge, where it communicated with the
ocean, and exposed to perpetual danger.html">danger from its storms and flood-tides,
along the coast on the west. Here had hitherto been the harbour formed
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comparatively easy, and much discouraged the States, had there not
side exactly at the period of threatened danger. The dwarf mountain
purposely levelled, lest the higher summits should offer positions of
had burst over the land and swept completely around the place, almost
profound gulf which with the ebb left an excellent channel quite deep
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