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The Lombards controlled the interior in a loose confederation of fiercely independent duchies.
•600s Lombards invade Milan and much of Italy; Venice founded on lagoon
The merchants of Venice that were the backbone of the Most Serene Republic were only too happy to dessiminate their Oriental cargoes of exotic goods to the dour lives of Lombards in the Po valley and beyond the Alps to the courts of northern Europe.
The central part of the Po valley is only a fraction of the Italian lands conquered by the Lombards when they crossed the Alps from eastern Europe in the early Middle Ages.
The Lombards’ first capital, before Milan, is now a sleepy, well-preserved, redbrick university town.