Editing Vicenza (section)

=== Roman era ===
Vicentia was settled by the Italic [[Euganei]] tribe and then by the Paleo-[[Adriatic Veneti|Veneti]] tribe in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Places: 393513 (Vicetia) |url=http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/393513 |last1=Pearce|first1=M.|first2=R.|last2=Peretto|first3=P.|last3=Tozzi |last4=DARMC|first5=R.|last5=Talbert|first6=S.|last6=Gillies|first7=J.|last7=Åhlfeldt|first8=J.|last8=Becker|first9=T.|last9=Elliott |date=2018-06-08 |publisher=Pleiades |access-date=April 10, 2013<!-- 12:09 pm -->}}</ref> The [[ancient Rome|Romans]] allied themselves with the Paleo-Veneti in their fight against the Celtic tribes that populated north-western Italy.
<ref>Polybius, 2.23.3; Strabo, ''Geog.'' 5.1.9</ref> The Roman presence in the area grew exponentially{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} over time and the Paleo-Veneti (whose culture mirrored Etruscan and Greek values more so than Celtic ones) were gradually assimilated. {{Citation needed|date=February 2010}} In 157 BC, the city was a de facto Roman centre and was given the name of '''''Vicetia''''' or '''''Vincentia''''', meaning "victorious".

The citizens of Vicetia received [[Roman citizenship]] and were inscribed into the Roman tribe ''Romilia'' in 49 BC. The city was known for its agriculture, brickworks, marble quarry, and wool industry and had some importance as a way-station on the important road from ''[[Milan|Mediolanum]]'' (Milan) to [[Aquileia]], near ''Tergeste'' (Trieste), but it was overshadowed by its neighbor ''[[Patavium]]'' ([[Padua]]). Little survives of the Roman city, but three of the bridges across the [[Bacchiglione]] and Retrone rivers are of Roman origin, and isolated arches of a [[Roman aqueduct]] exist outside the ''Porta Santa Croce''.

During the decline of the [[Western Roman Empire]], [[Heruls]], [[Vandals]], [[Alaric I|Alaric]] and his [[Visigoths]], as well as the [[Huns]] laid waste to the area, but the city recovered after the [[Ostrogoth]] conquest in 489 AD, before being conquered by the [[Byzantine Empire]] soon after. It was also an important [[Lombards|Lombard]] city and then a [[Frankish Empire|Frankish]] center. Numerous [[Benedictine]] monasteries were built in the Vicenza area, beginning in the 6th century.