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Cremona is a city north of Iatlia located in Region Lombardi.

The origins of this are unsafe. Probably founded by the Etruscans, its true history starts with the Romany who did, 218 Others Christ, a cornerstone military in the Po Valley in defence by barbarians.
Cremona owned towers, walls, doors railways, all surrounded by a ditch. Resist assaults to the Gauls and the African Hannibal, earning the title of City Hall. 90 in A. C. And was very flourishing at the end of the Republic. Saccheggiata by soldiers of Vespasian in 69 d. C. After the second battle of Bedriaco was then made to rebuild by himself, but not reached the most primitive prosperity.

Presidiata by the Greeks resisted 34 years until the invasion Lombard was taken alive to force Agilulfo (603).
Of bishops of Cremona we know with certainty since sec. 5 (first lists worthy of faith in sec. 8); certain is that since 9 woods. Cremona is home to a county wide bishop, in 1098, after long struggles among its bishops and the people constituted in common. Nemica Milan and cream, followed by the imperial party Frederick Barbarossa to Federico II, in 1249 had as mayor Uberto Pelavicino (Pallavicino) who had centre of a vast dominion in Lombardy and Piedmont; collapsed as a result of this defeat Ghibelline of Benevento (1266) was the city with the horrors Cavalcab revenge Guelph, but his attitude during the descent antighibellino Henry VII of the cost looting and the loss of the title of the city, in 1311.
He was alternately in the lordship Cavalcab and Visconti centuries in 14 -15 , sinche passed in 1441 to Francesco Sforza as dowry of his wife Bianca Maria Visconti.

But Venice ambiva Cremona, and if in 1431, F. Sforza, N. Piccinino had frustrated the attempt of Carmagnola, sconfiggendone with a clever trick fiottiglia the strong river, it was by the French in 1499 by the Treaty of Blois and held until 1509. Occupied (1525) by the Spanish during the Thirty Years War of its territory was the scene of a battle (June 1648) between Spanish and French: recent victorious then put in Cremona an unnecessarily siege lasted for a few months. In Spain the city remained until 1702, when the Austrians occupied. Taken by the French in May 1796, was part of the Kingdom of Italy until 1814, as capital of the department of Alto Po. She returned to Austria, March 19, 1848 rebelled, forcing the garrison to withdraw.
Cremona is today the capital of the province. It is a quiet town on the left bank of the river Po, primarily agriculture

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