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Naples
was founded between the 7th and 6th centuries BC by the Greeks and was given the
name Neapolis.
During the period of Roman domination, the town preserved its Greek language and
customs. Following the Roman period, the city was dominated by many different
groups of people (Byzantines, Lombards, Normans, Swabians, Angevins, Aragonese,
Spaniards, Austrians, Bourbons and revolutionary French).
Nowadays one can see
the traces of all those rulers in the monuments, in the culture and in the
habits of the town. In 1266 the Angevins moved the capital of the Kingdom of
Sicily from Palermo
to Naples. Sicily
soon parted and
formed an
independent Kingdom
of Sicily. |
