Arezzoball

Arezzoball is a very ancient city in Tuscanyball, Italyball.
==History==
Arezzoball was under the control of:
 Etruscanball, Roman Republicball, Roman Empireball, Western Roman Empireball, Ostrogothic Kingdomball, Franciaball, Middle Franciaball, HREball (as March of Tuscanyball, subdivision of Kingdom of Italyball), Republic of Florenceball, Duchy of Florenceball, Grand Duchy of Tuscanyball, Kingdom of Etruriaball, Kingdom of Italyball, Italian Social Republicball and Italian Republicball.
===Ancient===
Although Umbrian shepherds and farmers began to settle in the Arezzoball area around the first millennium BC, it was around the 5th century BC that the Etruscans equipped it with walls and made it a powerfull lucumonia rather than a simple agrarian village.
===Medieval===
During the Middle Ages Arezzoball was initially governed by its own bishop, later becoming one of the many "liberi comuni" of Tuscany.
When in central and northern Italy the Guelph (pro Pope) and Ghibelline (pro Emperor) factions fought over who should be the highest temporal authority, Arezzo, despite an internal faction of Guelph sympathizers, was strongly Ghibelline and pro-imperial, with many Guelph Tuscan cities such as Florence and Siena who had to ally themselves to defeat the potential hegemonic city of Tuscany, considering that Arezzoball was then among the most important centers of power in the region. Guglielmo degli Ubertini, from one of the most important noble families of Arezzo, was a warrior bishop of the Ghibelline party who fought and died against the Florentine Guelphs (among whose ranks there was also Dante Alighieri) in the battle of Campaldino of 1289, following which a period of decline for Arezzo.
===Modern===
In 1797 revolutionary France under Napoleon invaded Arezzoball and, despite the collaboration of some Jacobins and local liberal aristocrats, the local peasant population, fomented by the clergy, rebelled against foreign occupation and Enlightenment ideals, giving rise to the counter-revolutionary movement and conservative of the "Viva Maria" to defend Roman Catholicism, the Empire and the legitimate and popular Habsburg-Lorraine monarchy. Arezzoball was the only city to rebel against the invader but, managing to recruit many rebels and with austrian and russian support, it managed to liberate various Italian cities and was rewarded for this by the Grand Duke Ferdinand III who granted it the title of province once the French had been driven out. The Viva Maria are part of the broader reactionary phenomenon of "Sanfedismo" which spread throughout the occupied Italian peninsula.
Arezzoball hostility to radical, secular and republican ideals was also due to the strong devotion of the Arezzoball people to the "Madonna del Conforto", which is said to have miraculously appeared in 1796 after a disastrous earthquake.
==Relations==
===Friends===
===Mixed===
* Pratoball - Among the few Tuscan cities that I don't hate.
===Enemies===
* Florenceball - Give us back the chimera.
* Perugiaball - My worst enemy!
==Trivia==
*The city's patron saint is San Donato, who suffered martyrdom here in 362.
*Musical notes were invented by the religious Guido Monaco (990-1050).
*The bridge in Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" or "Gioconda" is that of the "Ponte Buriano" location, very close to Arezzo.
*Important figures such as Petrarca, Piero della Francesca, Vasari and many other were from Arezzoball or surrounding areas. Michelangelo himself was born in a small town near Arezzoball renamed "Caprese Michelangelo".
*As in all Tuscan cities, the people of Arezzoball are very proud and have a strong historical and footballing rivalry with their neighbors like Florence, Perugia and Siena, a phenomenon known as "campanilismo" (parochialism).
*Arezzoball is divided into four neighborhoods (Porta Santo Spirito, Porta del Foro, Porta Crucifera and Porta Sant'Andrea) which, starting from the 1930s, compete twice a year in the Saracen carousel, in which the reward for the victor it is a golden spear. Province of Arezzoball is also divided into four valleys: Val di Chiana (where the city itself is located), Val d'Arno, Val Tiberina and Casentino.
*Arezzoball is one of the few cities in Tuscany (a region which, like all of central Italy, was extremely left-wing in the post-WW2 period) to never have had a communist mayor during the first republic. However, it had many from the more moderate Italian Socialist Party, which was supported by the Italian Communist Party.
*Arezzoball has a very important gold market.
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