Cesena

Cesena is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna place, served by means of Autostrada A14, and placed close to the Apennine Mountains, approximately 15 kilometres from the Adriatic Sea. The general population is 97,137. Cesena became at the start an Umbrian or Etruscan city, later referred to as Caesena. After a brief spell under Gaulish rule, it was taken over with the aid of Romans inside the 3^rd century BC. It turned into a garrison metropolis of strategic significance which turned into destroyed in the wars between Gaius Marius and Sulla. Pliny mentions the wines of Cesena as a few of the first-class.

Cesena changed into at the border that the Exarchate of Ravenna shared with the Lombards. It turned into provided to the Papacy via its Frankish conqueror in 754 and surpassed from side to side between the popes and the archbishops of Ravenna; it was additionally in short a communal republic. It become then lengthy contested between popes and Holy Roman Emperors. The brief rule by using the Forlivese Ordelaffi was overwhelmed in 1357 by using Papal troops led by using Cardinal Gil de Albornoz, after a protracted siege heroically endured via Cia degli Ordelaffi, spouse of the Lord of Forli.