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	HISTORY</div>
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	Towards the sea, the city is located on a bent elbow-shaped promontory, which protects the largest natural harbor of the central Adriatic. The Greeks of Syracuse, who founded the city in 387 BC, noticed the shape of this headland and for this reason called the new &quot;Ankon&quot; city, which in greek means elbow</div>
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	The Ancona Greek origin is remembered by the epithet with which it is known: the &quot;Doric city&quot;.</div>
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	Some constants characterize the millennia-old history of the city: the first connection to the sea, then a particular attachment to freedom and independence, which led to repeated sieges, finally, a lack of interest in territorial expansion. Ultimately, Ancona was a city that is often defended with energy, never engaged in wars of conquest, and devoted its best efforts to navigation and port operations. This unity of purpose of the population often allowed him to overcome the vested interests; Therefore the social conflicts that during some periods characterized the history of other cities were never significant.</div>
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	Generally considered the beginning of the millennial history of Ancona the Greek foundation; this is correct considering Ancona as a city; before the city, though, Ancona existed as a village or group of villages; the archaeological excavations in fact inform us of the existence of two centers during the Bronze Age and an Iron Age, the latter referring to the Piceno civilization.</div>
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	Ancona city becomes thus in 387 BC, the founding date of the ANKON colony of Syracusan Greeks of Doric race. The center Piceno was peacefully absorbed from the greek. The city remained for about two centuries a thriving Greek colony, although not part of the Magna Grecia.</div>
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	Later it was an ally and then municipality of Rome, active communication port between the capital and the East. It was particularly important during the reign of Trajan.</div>
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	After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, following the Gothic-Byzantine war, it was one of the Byzantine Empire metropolis.</div>
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	After the Mille entered the city in the period more splendid in its history, namely when it was a free commune and maritime republic. During the five centuries of independence it was distinguished from the other maritime republics for a somewhat peculiar behavior: ever undertaken of oppression wars against other cities, content with their relationship with the sea and the East; But often he had to defend themselves from enemy powers, which always made with great ardor. A constant in the history of Ancona from every age is indeed the recurrence of difficult sieges from which almost always emerged victorious, after long sufferings.</div>
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	Another constant in the history of Ancona, which emerges by studying the period of the Greek colony, a Roman city hall and maritime republic, is the intense relationship with the sea, navigation and the East, a relationship which still characterizes the city.</div>
