Jews are invited to settle in Leghorn, …
Years: 1593 - 1593
May
Jews are invited to settle in Leghorn, the main port of Tuscany, where they are granted full religious liberty and civil rights by the Medici family, who want to develop the region into a center of commerce.
Locations
People
Groups
- Jews
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Mantua, Duchy of
- Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
- Tuscany, Grand Duchy of
Topics
- Renaissance, Italian
- Protestant Reformation
- Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
- Sephardim, Ashkenazim, and Sabbateanism; 1540 to 1683
