What was the most important city state in Italy during the middle

>>2614796
Rome

>>2614796
Easily Venice

Venice

>>2614807
Holy shit no. Not even close.

Almost certainly Venice, I guess you could argue Genoa but you'd be wrong

>>2614796
For me, it's Firenze.

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>tfw people keep ignoring the based Papal States

They were more powerful than you can imagine. Sad to see it get reduced to such a tiny strip of land now.

No mentioned of Milan? They have the biggest economy in Italy today so I imagine back then it was the same if not similar.

>>2614796
Florence

>>2614796
Florence/Venice

>>2614796
Middles Ages - Venice (arguably)
Post-Middle Ages - Florence (Milan in second)

>>2614796
Italian city states don't mean shit. Terronia is where the real magic happened on the Italian peninsula during the medieval ages and renaissance.

>>2615004
>Be Papal States.
>Under Borgia.
>Go Empire mode.
>MUH PRINCE OF ROMAGNA
>Get ass handed to you when Borgia Pope dies.

>>2615585
>Italian city states don't mean shit
How so?

>>2615585
Terronia has always been a French-Aragonese Moorish inbreeding shithole and today it's the main reason why Italy isn't a German tier superpower.

Inb4 "MUH FREDERICK II", "MUH 3RD INDUSTRIAL POWER", "SICILIAN IS THE MOST ANCIENT FORM OF ITALIAN"

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