The flag of Lombardy is single-coloured green and shows in the middle the emblem of the region. This looks like a cross, however, it is the so-called "Rose of Camuna". It should remember the prehistoric drawings in Camuni. The historical heraldry of Lombardy, which was to found itself on the flags, is the heraldry of the Duchy of Milan under the dynasty of Visconti. From the end of the 14th century it was mixed with the heraldry of the German Empire. The coat of arms of the Visconti showed a dragon that spits out a man (bears a man). The flag of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia is not handed down safely. Probably a black-golden flag was used, as it was used by the Empire of Austria as the national flag.
antiquity · in the today's Lombardy settle Raetians, Umbrians and Celts
since 5th cent. B.C. · immigration of Etruscians from the Alpes
since 225 B.C. · Roman conquest, establishment of the Province of Gallia Cisalpina
89 B.C. · the Province of Gallia Cisalpina gets incorporated into the Province of Italy
452 · Hun's invasions
476 · dismissal of the last Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus, end of the (West)Roman Empire, the today's Lombardy belongs until 493 to the Empire of the Odoaker
489 · conquest of the region by the Eastern Goth
568/569 · conquest and settlement by the Langobardes (from there: Lombardy)
572 · Pavia gets the capital of the Langobardian Empire
774 · conquest by the Franks
781 · incorporation of the Lombardy into the Frankish Empire of the Carolingians
843 · at the division of the Frankish Empire comes the Lombardy to the Kingdom of Italy
888 · after the vanish of the Carolingians disintegrates the Region into small states
1859 · Austro-French War, after the battles of Magenta and Solferino Austria has to cede Lombardy, including Bergamo and Brescia to France
1860 · France exchanges the Lombardy against Savoy and the County of Nice with Sardinia-Piedmont, Lombardy becomes in this way a part of Sardinia-Piedmont and thus a part of the in 1861 by the House of Savoy (the ruling dynasty of Sardinia-Piedmont) founded Kingdom of Italy
17th of March 1861 · coronation of Victor Emmanuel II. of Sardinia-Piedmont to the King of the Kingdom of Italy
1946 · establishment of the Lombardy region as administration unit
The name "Lombardy" goes back to the Lombards. They came originally from the today's southern Sweden, settled later along the lower reaches of the Elbe river, and came in the 6th century to northern Italy. The name of the Lombards is often associated in connection with the idea of "long beards", and the legends seem to confirm this, however, the word goes back to the long-handled battle axes, called "long bards".
