Genoa has gone into a decline as…
1396 CE
Genoa has gone into a decline as a result of the economic retrenchment in Europe in the late fourteenth century, as well as its long war with Venice, which had culminated in its defeat at Chioggia in 1380.
The rising Ottoman power has cut into the Genoese emporia in the Aegean, and the Black Sea trade has been squeezed off.
France conquers the Republic in 1396.