6 April 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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The Roman Ghetto or Ghetto of Rome (
Italian: Ghetto di Roma) was a
Jewish ghetto established in 1555 in the
Rione Sant’Angelo, in
Rome,
Italy, in the area surrounded by present-day Via del
Portico d’Ottavia,
Lungotevere dei Cenci, Via del Progresso and Via di Santa Maria del Pianto, close to the River
Tiber and the
Theatre of Marcellus. With the exception of brief periods under
Napoleon from 1808 to 1815 and under the Roman Republics of
1798–99 and
1849, the ghetto of Rome was controlled by the
papacy until the
capture of Rome in 1870.
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