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Verona
City (pop., 1996 est.: 254,000), N Italy. Located on the Adige River, it became a Roman colony in 89 BC and was the birthplace of the poet Catullus. It was captured by the Goths after the fall of the Roman empire and was the site of Odoacer's defeat by the Ostrogothic king Theodoric in 489. It was occupied by Charlemagne in 774. It came under the della Scala family 1260-1387, the era recalled in W. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It passed in 1405 to Venice, which held it almost continuously until 1797, when it was ceded to Austria. It became part of the kingdom of Italy in 1866. It is noted for its ancient Roman amphitheater (1st cent. AD), now used for opera, and for Romanesque and Gothic buildings.
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