* Minerva is displayed as a statue in Pavia, Italy, near the train station, and is considered as an important landmark in the city.

* DYHP ( DYPV ) 104. 3 The Beat 104. 3 FM-a music FM station owned by MBC and operated by Pavia Broadcasting Service.

In Italy, it opened with the integration of the kingdom into the empire and the royal palace at Pavia was summoned in 1024.

In the tenth month of the siege, famine was hitting Pavia hard and Desiderius, realising that he was left on his own, opened the gates to Charles and surrendered on some Tuesday in June.

The nobility of the region took part in various battles ( Marignano, Pavia ) and in doing so gained significant prestige.

In 1520 he joined the Spanish army of Charles I and fought in Flanders in 1521 and Italy between 1522 and 1525, participating in the battle of Pavia as part of the troops of the Marquis of Pescara.

He served at the court of Charlemagne, and took part in the Italian campaign of Charlemagne in 773 where he almost drowned in the Ticino near Pavia while trying to save his brother.

In the summer of 1423 Alfonso persuaded the Republic of Siena to acknowledge Clement VIII, thus securing recognition for the pope of the Avignon line in the very city, Pavia, which was part of the Republic of Siena, where the Roman pope Martin V had convened an ecumenical council of the Church.

As bishop of Pavia he played a considerable part in ecclesiastical affairs.

Under the terms of the treaty, Maria Theresa agreed to transfer to the King of Sardinia the city and part of the duchy of Piacenza, the Vigevanesco, part of the duchy of Pavia, the county of Anghiera, and claims to the marquisate of Finale.

He was the son of Admiral Pavia, a naval officer of some note in the early part of the 19th century.

Pavia sat in the Cortes of the Restoration several times, and once defended himself skillfully against Emilio Castelar, who upbraided him for the part he had played on the 3 January 1874.

Luigi Cremona was born in Pavia ( Lombardy ), then part of the Austrian controlled Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia.

Western Lombard is a Romance language spoken in Italy, in the Lombard provinces of Milan, Monza, Varese, Como, Lecco, Sondrio, a small part of Cremona ( except Crema and its neighbours ), Lodi and Pavia, and the Piedmont provinces of Novara, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and a small part of Vercelli ( Valsesia ), and Switzerland ( Canton Ticino and part of Grischun ).

He took part in the memorable Spanish victory at the Battle of Pavia in 1525 and acquired a small fortune when the Imperial armies sacked Rome two years later.

Conquering all of the territory north of the Po, he forced the surrender of Milan and then drove Guy out of Pavia, where he was crowned King of Italy, but went no further before Guy died suddenly in late autumn, and fever incapacitated his troops.

First Maginulf, Count of Milan, and then Walfred, Count of Pavia, joined him.

On his way north, he stopped at Pavia where he crowned his illegitimate son Ratold, sub-King of Italy, after which he left Ratold in Milan in an attempt to preserve his hold on Italy.

Shortly before his birth, his mother had to move from Milan to Pavia to escape the Plague ; her three other children died from the disease.

At the death of King Haripert I in 661, the kingdom was split between his children Perctarit, who set his capital in Milan, and Godepert, who reigned from Pavia.

The Lombardy region in Italy, which includes the cities of Brescia, Bergamo, Milan and the old capital Pavia, is a reminder of the presence of the Lombards.

It appears from archaeology that the great cities of Lombard Italy — Pavia, Lucca, Siena, Arezzo, Milan — were themselves formed of very minute islands of urbanisation within the old Roman city walls.

( Centro Sociale Occupato Autogestito, " self-governing squatter social centers ") and include: Leoncavallo, Cantiere, Cox 18, Cascina Torchiera, La Fucina, Vittoria, Transiti 28, Panetteria Occupata, Bottiglieria Occupata and Villa Vegan Squat in Milan, Telos in Saronno, Officina 99, SKA, Insurgencia, Cinema Astra Occupato and Terra Terra in Naples, Askatasuna, El Paso, Gabrio, Murazzi, la Boccia Squat, No way squat, Mezcal Squat, Asilo Squat and Barocchio Squat in Turin, Brancaleone, Corto Circuito, Forte Prenestino, La Strada, Acrobax, Spartaco, Torre Maura, Horus, L38 Laurentino Squat, ZK Squatt, Ateneo Occupato, Macchia Rossa and Villaggio Globale in Rome, Buridda, Pinelli, Terra Di Nessuno, Aut Aut 357 and Zapata in Genoa, Rivolta in Mestre, Gramigna and Pedro in Padua, La Chimica in Verona, Bruno in Trento, Dordoni in Cremona, Magazzino 47 in Brescia, Pacì Paciana in Bergamo, Barattolo in Pavia, CPA Firenze Sud, La Riottosa, Villa Panico and Next Emerson in Florence, Experia and Auro in Catania, Ex-Karcere in Palermo, Ex-Mattatoio in Perugia, Mario Lupo in Parma, la Scintilla in Modena, Mezza Canaja in Senigallia, Kontatto in Ancona, TNT in Jesi, Godzilla in Livorno, Rebeldia and Newroz in Pisa, Teatro Polivalente, Lazzaretto, XM24, Livello 57 and Crash in Bologna, Cartella in Reggio Calabria, Rialzo in Cosenza, Fiumara in Catanzaro, Cloro Rosso in Taranto and many others.

* The Ostrogoths capture the cities Pavia and Milan.

When the Habsburg Charles V defeated Francis I at the Battle of Pavia in 1525, northern Italy, including Milan, passed to the House of Habsburg.

Obtaining the submission of Milan, he successfully besieged Tortona in early 1155, razing it to the ground before moving to Pavia where he received the Iron Crown, and with it, the title of King of Italy.

Major tourist destinations in the region include the historic, cultural and artistic cities of Milan ( which is Italy's second top tourist destination ), Brescia, Mantua, Pavia, Como, Cremona, Bergamo, Sondrio, Lecco, Lodi, Varese, Monza, and the lakes of Garda, Como, Maggiore, and Iseo.

After the decisive Battle of Pavia, the Duchy of Milan became a possession of the Habsburgs of Spain: the new rulers did little to improve the economy of Lombardy, instead imposing a growing series of taxes needed to support their unending series of European wars.

Pavia (; Lombard Pavia ; ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po.

In the political division between Guelphs and Ghibellines that characterizes the Italian Middle Ages, Pavia was traditionally Ghibelline, a position that was as much supported by the rivalry with Milan as it was a mark of the defiance of the Emperor that led the Lombard League against the emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who was attempting to reassert long-dormant Imperial influence over Italy.

Pavia held out against the domination of Milan, finally yielding to the Visconti family, rulers of that city in 1359 ; under the Visconti Pavia became an intellectual and artistic centre, being the seat from 1361 of the University of Pavia founded around the nucleus of the old school of law, which attracted students from many countries.

He was the great founding patron of the Certosa di Pavia, completing the Visconti Castle at Pavia begun by his father and furthering work on the Duomo of Milan.

Although most famous as Signore of Milan, Gian Galeazzo was the son of Galeazzo II Visconti who possessed the signoria of the city of Pavia.

* Saint Anastasius of Pavia – bishop of Pavia ( d. 628 )

* 1525 – Spanish-Imperial army defeat French army at Battle of Pavia.

* Hallenbeck, Jan T. " Pavia and Rome: The Lombard Monarchy and the Papacy in the Eighth Century " Transactions of the American Philosophical Society New Series, 72. 4 ( 1982 ), pp. 1 – 186.

* 1524 – Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.

Until the conclusion of the council of Pavia in 997, Gregory V had a rival in the person of the antipope John XVI ( 997 – 998 ), whom Crescentius II and the nobles of Rome had chosen against the will of the youthful Emperor Otto III, Gregory's cousin.

)- 1475, he studied civil law at the university of Pavia, and later went to Ferrara ( 1475 – 1479 ), where he became the protégé of Prince d ' Este of Ferrara, was a pupil of Theodor Gaza and attended lectures by the famous Battista Guarino.

* March 17 – The Civic Tower of Pavia, built in the 14th century, crumbles down.

* October 9 – The Treaty of Pavia is signed between Spain and Savoy, under which Savoy returns Monferrato to Mantua.

* May 14 – Henry II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor at Pavia.

* February 24 – Battle of Pavia: Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy and the Marquis of Pescara defeat the French army and capture Francis I of France, after his horse is wounded by Cesare Hercolani.

* October 28 – A French army invading Italy under King Francis besieges Pavia.

# Frederick V, Duke of Swabia ( Pavia, 16 July 1164 – 28 November 1170 ).

* October 12 – following Magyars raids in Lombardia, Louis the Blind, king of Provence, is called into the peninsula by the grandees, takes Pavia, forces Berengar of Friuli to flee, and replaces him as crowned king of Italy.

* St. Alexander Sauli ( 1591 – 1592 ), Bishop of Pavia

His son, Eugenio Balbi ( 1812 – 1884 ), followed a similar career, being professor of geography at Pavia, and publishing his father's Scritti Geografici ( Turin, 1841 ), and original works in Gea, ossia la terra ( Trieste, 1854 – 1867 ) and Saggio di geografia ( Milan, 1868 ).

The Siege or Battle of Pavia was fought in 773 – 774 in northern Italy, near Ticinum ( modern Pavia ), and resulted in the victory of the Franks under Charlemagne against the Lombards under king Desiderius.