Back دوقية نابولي Arabic Ducáu de Nápoles AST Герцагства Неапаль Byelorussian Херцогство Неапол Bulgarian Ducat de Nàpols Catalan Herzogtum Neapel German Δουκάτο της Νάπολης Greek Ducado de Nápoles Spanish Napoli hertsogkond Estonian Napoliko Dukerria Basque
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Duchy of Naples Ducatus Neapolitanus (Latin) | |||||||||
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| 661–1137 | |||||||||
 Map of southern Italy, showing the Duchy of Naples, c. 1112 | |||||||||
| Capital | Naples | ||||||||
| Common languages | Latin Byzantine Greek | ||||||||
| Government | Duchy | ||||||||
| Duke | |||||||||
• 661–666 | Basil (first) | ||||||||
• 1123–1137 | Sergius VII (last) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Established | 661 | ||||||||
• Sergius I make the duchy hereditary | 850 | ||||||||
• Annexation to the Kingdom of Sicily in the hands of Roger II of Sicily | 1137 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Italy | ||||||||
The Duchy of Naples (Latin: Ducatus Neapolitanus, Neapolitan: Ducato di Napule) began as a Byzantine province that was constituted in the seventh century, in the reduced coastal lands that the Lombards had not conquered during their invasion of Italy in the sixth century. It was governed by a military commander (dux), and rapidly became a de facto independent state, lasting more than five centuries during the Early and High Middle Ages. Naples remains a significant metropolitan city in present-day Italy.