Modugno
Sign in to saveModugno (; ) is a town and (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. It borders the municipalities of Bari, Bitetto, Bitonto, Bitritto, and Palo del Colle.
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Modugno is a town in the Bari area of southern Italy that sits alongside several neighboring municipalities. It serves as a municipality within the Metropolitan City of Bari in the Apulia region.
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- Nicola Magrone
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46 sectionsContents
- History
- Human settlements in the municipal territory before the founding of the city
- Prehistoric period
- Roman period
- Early medieval period
- Early core of the city of Modugno
- Location of the ancient settlement
- Norman principality (1071 - 1189) and Swabian reign (1194 - 1255)
- The Norman period
- The Hohenstaufen
- Angevin Kingdom (1266-1441)
- Struggles between Angevins and Hungarians in the mid-14th century
- Economic and demographic development from the second half of the 14th century
- Aragonese Kingdom (1442 - 1501)
- Under the prince of Taranto Orsini del Balzo
- Concession of Modugno to the Sforzas
- Development in the Aragonese period
- Sforza Duchy of Bari, Modugno and Palo del Colle (1465-1557)
- Sforza Maria Sforza
- Ludovico il Moro and Beatrice d'Este
- Duchess Isabella of Aragon (1501-1524)
- The government of Bona Sforza (1524-1557)
- Spanish Habsburg Viceroyalty (1503 - 1707)
- Oppression by the Spanish government
- Freedom from feudal serfdom
- The fake baron
- Collapse of the ''Universitas'' of Modugno
- Austrian viceroyalty (1707-1734)
- Bourbon reign (1734-1799)
- Modugno's accession to the Parthenopean Republic and Sanfedist reaction
- Napoleonic French Kingdom (1805 - 1815)
- Government of Joachim Murat
- Modugnese economy in the first half of the 19th century
- Bourbon Kingdom (1816-1860)
- Carboneria
- ''Risorgimento''
- Kingdom of Italy
- World War I
- Fascist period
- World War II
- Italian Republic
- Industrial and demographic development between the 1960s and 1990s
- Main sights
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Modugno (; ) is a town and (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. It borders the municipalities of Bari, Bitetto, Bitonto, Bitritto, and Palo del Colle.
Before the 1970s, the town was mainly dedicated to agriculture; since construction of an industrial zone, it has become an important factory site in the region. Modugno is from the shore. The landscape is mainly flat.