Editing Ancona (section)

=== Byzantine city ===
Ancona was attacked successively by the [[Goths]] and [[Lombards]] between the 3rd and 5th centuries, but recovered its strength and importance. It was one of the cities of the [[Pentapolis]] of the [[Exarchate of Ravenna]], a lordship of the [[Byzantine Empire]], in the 7th and 8th centuries.<ref name="EB1911"/><ref>The other four were [[Fano]], [[Pesaro]], [[Senigallia]] and [[Rimini]]</ref> In 840, Saracen raiders sacked and burned the city.<ref>''The Italian Cities and the Arabs before 1095'', Hilmar C. Krueger, ''A History of the Crusades: The First Hundred Years'', Vol. I, ed. Kenneth Meyer Setton, Marshall W. Baldwin (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955), p. 47.</ref> After [[Charlemagne]]'s conquest of northern Italy, it became the capital of the [[Marca di Ancona]], whence the name of the modern region derives.