Duchy of Milan

Overview

The Duchy of Milan was a state in Northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family, which had been ruling the city since 1277. At that time, it included twenty-six towns and the wide rural area of the middle Padan Plain east of the hills of Montferrat. During much of its existence, it was wedged between Savoy to the west, Republic of Venice to the east, the Swiss Confederacy to the north, and separated from the Mediterranean by the Republic of Genoa to the south. The duchy was at its largest at the beginning of the 15th century, at which time it included almost all of what is now Lombardy and parts of what are now Piedmont, Veneto, Tuscany, and Emilia-Romagna.

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Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
• DETAILhistorical-basemaps (Ourednik)
• SNAPSHOT1530
• POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire20

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Third Italian War1494–1559
  Major conflict · 500K dead
• First Italian War1494–98
  Major conflict · 50K dead
• Second Italian War1499–1504
  Significant · 75K dead
• Wars in Lombardy1423–54
  Significant
• Florentine–Milanese wars1351–1402
  Regional
• Battle of Brescia1401
  Regional
• Battle of Arbedo1422
  Regional
• Battle of Brescia1426
  Regional
• Battle of Casa-al-Secco1427
  Regional
• Battle of Maclodio1427
  Regional
• Battle of Cremona1431
  Regional
• Battle of Soncino1431
  Regional
• Battle of Maderno1439
  Regional
• Battle of Anghiari1440
  Regional
• Battle of Caravaggio1448
  Regional
• Battle of Borgomanero1449
  Regional
• Battle of Milan1449
  Regional
• Battle of Giornico1478
  Regional
• Battle of Fornovo1495
  Regional
• Battle of Novara1513
  Regional