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Piedmont - History
HistoryIntroduction to the history of Piedmont. All the essential facts of Piedmont's history in a few lines. Discover the glorious history of the Savoy in Piedmont
Welcome to the page of the Piedmont Region.
This page shows all the wineries and the producers of the best wines of Piedmont: Barolo DOCG, Barbaresco DOCG, Barbera DOC, Asti DOC, and many others.
After a brief intorudtion to geography, history and popular holiday destinations in Piedmont you'll find the complete list of wine companies in Piedmont.
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Piedmont
History
Piedmont was inhabited in early historic times by Celtic-Ligurian tribes like Taurini and Salassi.
From 220 BC the Romans founded many colonies in the region, including Augusta Taurinorum (now Turin) and Eporedia (Ivrea).
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the region was repeatedly invaded by the Burgundians, Goths (fifth century), Byzantines, Lombards (sixth century) and finally the Franks (773).
Between the ninth and tenth centuries, when the Piedmont was part of the Holy Roman Empire, the region experienced many incursions of the Magyars and Saracens.
In 1046, Oddo of Savoy, son of Umberto I, first Count of Savoy, with his marriage to Adelaide of Susa, Countess of Turin joined the Piedmont region with the county of Savoy, with capital at Chambéry (now in France). Only the powerful towns of Asti and Alessandria and the Marquises of Saluzzo and Montferrat remained independent territories.
In 1416 the County of Savoy was converted into a duchy, and, about a century later, the Duke Emanuele Filiberto moved the capital to Turin.
In 1720, the Duke of Savoy became King of Sardinia, founding what in time will become the Kingdom of Sardinia, thus increasing the influence of Turin as one of the great European capitals.
During the Napoleonic period, the two republics of Alba and the Subalpine became part of the kingdom of France, to be returned to Piedmont after the Restoration, with the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which established, also, the annexation of the republic of Genoa to the Kingdom of Sardinia, to strengthen the power of the latter as a barrier against France.
With the wars of Independence of 1820-1821 and 1848-1849, Piedmont became the first Italian player in the unification of 1859-1861, when the Savoy became King of Italy, and Turin, the capital of the kingdom. However, with the increase of territory, the region lost its importance in the kingdom, making the government difficult. In an effort to regain the lost centrality the kingdom's capital was transferred first to Florence in 1865, and, then, in Rome 1870.
