Arezzo is a city in Tuscany, Italy, which was already an important settlement in antiquity, when it was known to the Etruscans as Arretium and became one of their major inland cities. After it came under Roman rule, it was known for its fine red pottery, called Arretine ware, which was exported across the empire. The wealthy patron Gaius Maecenas, friend of the emperor Augustus, came from there. In the Middle Ages it was a free commune and a centre of the Ghibelline faction, and in the Renaissance it was the birthplace of the poet Petrarch and of the artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari. Piero della Francesca painted his celebrated fresco cycle in the church of San Francesco. The dating of its earliest settlement is uncertain.
Before and after
- from c. 945 BCE to 715 BCETwenty-second Dynasty of Egypt
- from c. 930 BCE to 720 BCEKingdom of Israel
- from c. 930 BCE to 586 BCEKingdom of Judah
- from c. 911 BCE to 609 BCENeo-Assyrian Empire
- 10th century BCEFounding of Arezzo
- from c. 860s BCE to 590s BCEUrartu
- from c. 818 BCE to 715 BCETwenty-third Dynasty of Egypt
- from c. 814 BCE to 146 BCEAncient Carthage
- from c. 808 BCE to 167 BCEMacedonia
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The era
This moment belongs to the Ancient civilizations (3,200 BCE to 500 CE), writing, cities and empires.