Taranto: All Data
Taranto is a city in Italy (with S. Marino and Vatican). This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Taranto: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
212 BC
Mentioned in Event: Italian Front (Second Punic War)
212 BC
Mentioned in: Battle of Tarentum, part of Italian Front (Second Punic War)
208 BC
Mentioned in Event: Italian Front (Second Punic War)
208 BC
Mentioned in: Battle of Tarentum (209 BC), part of Italian Front (Second Punic War)
117 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Regio of Apulia et Calabria, part of Roman Empire
752 AD
Mentioned in Event: Aistulf´s War against the Byzantines
775 AD
Mentioned in Event: Frankish Invasion of Italy (775)
788 AD
Mentioned in Event: Frankish Invasion of Italy (775)
789 AD
Mentioned in Event: Frankish Invasion of Italy (775)
841 AD
Mentioned in Event: Arab-Byzantine Wars
841 AD
Capital of Emirate of Taranto
928 AD
Mentioned in Event: Arab-Byzantine Wars
1060 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of the Theme of Langobardia
1065 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of the Theme of Langobardia
1067 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of the Theme of Langobardia
1266 AD
Mentioned in Event: Battle of Benevento
1861 AD
Mentioned in Event: Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy
1940 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Taranto (1940), part of World War II
1943 AD
Mentioned in Event: Allied Invasion of Southern italy
1943 AD
Mentioned in Event: Operation Achse