Ventimiglia

Ventimiglia is a city, comune and bishopric in Liguria, northern Italy, inside the province of Imperia. It is positioned 130 km southwest of Genoa, and 7 km from the French Italian border, on the Gulf of Genoa, having a small harbor on the mouth of the Roia River, which divides the city into elements. Ventimiglia's city area has a population of 55,000. Ventimiglia is the ancient Albium Intemelium, the capital of the Intemelii, a Ligurian tribe which lengthy resisted the Romans, until in a 150 BC it became compelled to submit to Marcus Aemilius Scaurus. Albintimilium have become a municipium in 89 BC.

In AD 69 the town turned into sacked by way of the military of Otho and Vitellius, but recovered to remain prosperous into the 5th century, surrounded by way of partitions with cylindrical towers built at every alternate of course. In the Gothic Wars it become besieged by using the Byzantines and the Goths and later suffered from the raids of Rothari, King of the Lombard, however flourished again underneath Rodoald. In the 10th century it turned into attacked by using the Saracens of Fraxinet. After a length as an independent commune, it became dominated via the Counts of Ventimiglia and regularly had to fight with the Republic of Genoa.