The family later separated into two branches: Buonaparte-Sarzana, Nobili di Sarzana had been compelled to leave Florence due to the defeat of the Ghibellines and later when Francesco Buonaparte came to Corsica in 16th century and the island was in Genoese possession.

In Asia that year, the Black Plague came to the troops of the Golden Horde Khanate ; the disease also affected the Genoese Europeans they were attacking, before spreading to the rest of Europe.

The kingdom eventually came to be dominated more and more in the 14th century by the Genoese merchants.

The kingdom eventually came to be dominated more and more in the 14th century by the Genoese merchants.

Gibraltarians of Genoese origin came to The Rock in the 18th century, with the Maltese and Portuguese following in the 19th century, coming to work and trade in the British military base.

The name Circassian is of Italian origin and came from the medieval Genoese merchants and travelers who first gave currency to the name.

In 1347, the Genoese possession of Caffa, a great trade emporium on the Crimean peninsula, came under siege by an army of Mongol warriors under the command of Janibeg.

Eventually, Lucia came to an agreement with the Genoese and the Commune, which displeased the Venetians and the ambitious Bartholomew Embriaco, the Genoese mayor of the city, who called in the Mameluke Sultan Qalawun to their aid.

Lucia then came to Tripoli from Auxerre, where she had married ca 1275 or 1278 Narjot de Toucy, to take control of the county, although she was opposed by both the commune and the Genoese.

The Genoese troops, led by commander Guglielmo Embriaco, had previously dismantled the ships in which the Genoeses came to the Holy Land ; Embriaco, using the ship's wood, made some siege towers.

Around Cape Vert, in June 1455, Cadamosto came across two Portuguese caravels, one of which was commanded by Antoniotto Usodimare, a Genoese captain in Prince Henry's service, the other by an unnamed squire of Henry's household.

After the Mongol invasion of 1241, the rebuilt coastal cities of Budjak ( Maurocastron and Licostomo ), came under the domination of Genoese traders.

The Venetians also came to Sudak at the beginning of the 13th century to take their share, naming the fortress Soldaia, before ceding it to Genoese control in 1365.

In 1391 and 1396, he confirmed the privileges of the Venetians, though his relations with the Genoese were more strained, and he came into conflict with them in 1416.

According to legend, Christopher Columbus supposedly came from Calvi, which at the time was part of the Genoese Empire.

Meanwhile the Genoese and Venetian trading communities in Acre came into conflict, in the " War of Saint Sabas.

Folquet de Marselha, alternatively Folquet de Marseille, Foulques de Toulouse, Fulk of Toulouse ( c. 1150 – 25 December 1231 ) came from a Genoese merchant family who lived in Marseille.

The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.

Known as " Ofioussa " ( having snakes ) and " Pityoussa " ( having pine trees ) in antiquity, during the medieval age the island was ruled by a number of external powers and has also been known as Scio ( Genoese ), Chio ( Italian ) and Sakız ( صاقيز — Ottoman Turkish ).

The Venetian and Genoese merchants paid visits to Trebizond during the medieval period and sold silk, linen and woolen fabric ; with the Republic of Genoa having an important merchant colony within the city that was similar to Galata near Constantinople ( north across the Golden Horn ) in present-day Istanbul.

Kyrenia castle played a pivotal role in the island's history during the many disputes among the Frankish kings, as well as the conflicts with the Genoese.

The tower was built as Christea Turris ( Tower of Christ ) in 1348 during an expansion of the Genoese colony in Constantinople.

The naval Battle of Sapienza, also known as the Battle of Porto-Longo, took place in 1354, during the Third Venetian – Genoese War.

Venice proved to be a more powerful adversary, and with the decline of Genoese power during the 15th century Venice became pre-eminent on the seas.

He died from injuries received by a fall from his horse at Villafranca during a campaign against the Genoese.

Famagusta was still under Genoese sovereignty, something that was never accepted by either James and other kings after him and during his reign he tried to regain that city.

Rumelihisarı was built by Sultan Mehmed II between 1451 and 1452 in order to control the sea traffic on the Bosphorus strait and prevent aid from the Black Sea to reach Constantinople during the Turkish siege of the city in 1453, particularly from the Genoese colonies such as Caffa, Sinop and Amasra.

Most Genoese territories were conquered by the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century.

The Genoese fleet transported and provided naval support to the crusaders, mainly during the siege of Antioch in 1098, when the Genoese fleet blockaded the city while the troops provided support during the siege.

The Pisan fleet avoided combat, and tried to wear out the Genoese fleet during 1283.

Especially strong trade ties with the Genoese formed during this period.

He was in command of the Venetian fleet in 1378 during the war against the Genoese, whom he defeated off Capo d ' Anzio ; subsequently he recaptured Kotor, Šibenik and Rab, which had been seized by the Croatians and Hungarians, the allies of the Genoese.

The Genoese Pilot of the Magellan expedition, states — wrongly — in his eyewitness account that the Spaniards had no interpreter when they arrived back to Cebu, because Enrique had died on Mactan along with Magellan during the Battle of Mactan in 1521.

The history of the Azores is linked to non-official exploration during the period of the late 13th century in maps, such as the Genoese Atlas Medici ( 1351 ).

The episodes began suddenly after a conflict of who will hold the left and who the right rein and continued and became expanded during the evening of the celebration dinner and afterwise to the roads of Famagusta, where Venetians and Genoese had armed conflict with many victims and damages.

The Byzantines were thus helpless as Genoese, Pisans and Venetians operated freely in the Aegean during the later 1190s, raiding at will and imposing their terms on the Empire.

Genoese formed the larger group of the new population in the 18th century and middle 19th century.

The building houses the icon of Santa Ana, carved by the Genoese Domingo Giscardi in the 18th century.

The avenue, surrounded by late Ottoman era buildings ( mostly from the 19th and early 20th centuries ) that were designed with the Neo-Classical, Neo-Gothic, Beaux-Arts, Art Nouveau and First Turkish National Architecture ( Birinci Millî Mimarî Akımı ) styles ; as well as a few Art Deco style buildings from the early years of the Turkish Republic, and a number of more recent examples of modern architecture ; starts from the medieval Genoese neighbourhood around Galata Tower and ultimately leads up to Taksim Square.

A view of Galata ( modern Karaköy ) with the Galata Tower ( 1348 ) at the apex of the medieval Republic of Genoa | Genoese citadel walls, which were largely demolished in the 19th century to enable northward urban growth.

In 1505 it was annexed to the Genoese Republic, sharing its history until the early 19th century.

In Argentina and Uruguay ( where many thousands of Ligurian people emigrated between the 19th and the 20th centuries ) farinata is known as fainá, similar to the original Genoese name fainâ.