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The province of Ancona is a province of 476,016 inhabitants with the capital of Marche in Ancona. Facing east on the Adriatic Sea, bordered to the north-west of the province of Pesaro and Urbino, in the south with the province of Macerata, west of Umbria (Perugia).
 

 History

The settlement dates back to the Bronze Age and Iron Age. Subsequently piceni and Greeks colonized the territory, while the Gauls settled in the north dell'Esino. In 295 BC, following the Battle of Sentino, began the Roman penetration, which was consolidated with the founding of the colony of Sena Gallica (284 BC). In the two following centuries new cities were founded.

After the fall of the Roman Empire the territory was part of the reign of Odoacer and then fall under the rule of the Ostrogoths. After the Gothic War, was built between the possessions of the Roman Empire and became part of the maritime Pentapoli. After a brief period under the dominion of the Lombards, in 774 AD the area was given by Charlemagne to the Church.

With the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire was created in the March of Ancona, which included almost all of today's Marche region. Starting in 1000, the territory began to gradually become independent, clashing repeatedly with the Empire, who tried repeatedly to re-establish its actual power. Became a province of the Papal States under Pope Innocent III, enjoyed a system of autonomy, which was confirmed in egidiane Constitutions of 1357, issued by Cardinal Albornoz. In the sixteenth century, the Brand Anconitana lost many of its citizens' civil liberties and followed the fate of other provinces of the Papal States until its full incorporation into the nascent kingdom of Italy (1860).

Geography

The province of Ancona has the typical structure and geographical landscape of the rest of the region segmented from the mountain area, the hills and the sea, river valleys with parallel (comb-shape) has a notable exception, however, just south of the capital, stretches where the wide and steep promontory of Conero.

Orography

Despite the mostly hilly area and the absence of very high peaks, 34.5% of the province of Ancona is classified as a mountain: an extension surface second only to that region in the province of Ascoli Piceno. This is because four of the five mountain municipalities concerned (Arcevia, Cerreto d'Esi, Fabriano, Genga, Sassoferrato) are on average much smaller. On the coast it only reports the Monte Conero (572 m), the only major coastal Marche, Umbria and near the station in the area of Fabriano, there are some peaks of the Apennines. Among the latter point out that of the Stony Mountain, which rises to 1,093 m above sea level

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