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The Duchy of Benevento (after 774, Principality of Benevento) was the southernmost Lombard duchy in the Italian Peninsula that was centred on Benevento, a city in Southern Italy. Lombard dukes ruled Benevento from 571 to 1077, when it was conquered by the Normans for four years before it
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See moreThe circumstances surrounding the creation of the duchy are disputed. According to some scholars, Lombards were present in southern Italy well before the complete conquest of the Po Valley: the duchy by these
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See moreUnder Zotto's successors, the duchy was expanded against the Byzantine Empire. Arechis, himself from the duchy of Friuli, captured Capua and Crotone, and sacked Byzantine Amalfi, but was unable to capture Naples. After his reign, Byzantine holdings in southern Italy
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See more• Gwatkin, H. M. (1926). J. P. Whitney; et al. (eds.). The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III. Cambridge University Press.
• Oman, Charles (1914). The Dark Ages 476-918. London: Rivingtons.
• Hodgkin, Thomas (1895). Italy and her Invaders. Clarendon Press....
See moreIn 758, king Desiderius briefly captured Spoleto and Benevento, but with Charlemagne's conquest of the Lombard kingdom in 774,
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See moreIn spite of the unceasing hostility of the Frankish sovereigns, in the following century, Benevento reached its apex, imposing a tribute on Naples and capturing Amalfi under Duke Sicard. When the latter was killed in a plot, a civil war broke out. Sicard's relative,
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See more• (in Italian) Ducato (570 ca.-774) et Principato di Benevento (774-1077)
• (in Italian) I Longobardi del Sud...
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