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The earliest records date back to 533, during the war greek-Gothic, when the victory of Narsete on Teia, Amalfi passes under the dominion of the Byzantine Empire and became part of the duchy of Naples. In the sixth century became a bishopric. The bishop absolved religious services and provide for the defense of the city. He later went to form an aristocracy of large landowners, which deprived the bishop of political power.836 Sicard, Duke of Benevento, raided Amalfi, deporting the inhabitants to Salerno. 839 killed the Duke Sicard, the Amalfi revolted and gained a power and autonomy that lasted until the end of the eleventh century.
Amalfi began an astute policy in respect of two empires and the other Italian states to safeguard their commercial interests and defeated the Saracens who undermine the traffic. At first it was straight to the Republic, to the 850 with two 'prefects' annual, then by "judges", and finally by 958 by 'Dukes Doges'. On their election had a right to formal confirmation of the emperors of the East, but in reality the city was administered freely, with more judges and its own coins. The needs of defense and maritime trade, often pushed into an alliance with Amalfi, the Saracens and Ludovico II against Byzantines, that wanted to restore the sovereignty of the Eastern Empire.
The alliance with the Saracens, however, was unstable and not very durable. This fact, in 915, after a furious battle was fought and finally expelled from the territory of Amalfi.920 always in the hands of Amalfi were expelled from Reggio Calabria. For all the X century and the beginning of the eleventh century, the Amalfi had expanded trade and a solid economic prosperity in the Mediterranean, occupying the place which later were Pisa and Genoa. The richness of Amalfi was that during this time that William wrote Appulo that no city was more rich in gold, silver and textiles of all kinds, and there met Arabs, Sicilians, Africans and even Indians. This explains the richness of its maritime traditions, which had Amalfi by one of their most ancient codifications, in the famous "Tabula Amalphitana" which was credited as the maritime code of all seafaring nations of the time.
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