The balance of power in Italy is…

748 CE to 759 CE

The balance of power in Italy is altered permanently when the Lombards take the Exarchate of Ravenna, thus ending imperial influence in north and central Italy and indirectly fostering the historic alliance between the papacy and the Franks.

The "Donation of Pepin" (756) ratifies a new period of papal rule in central Italy, which becomes known as the Republic of St. Peter, or the Papal States.

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Franks View → Lombards (West Germanic tribe) View → Lombards (Italy), Kingdom of the View → Ravenna, Exarchate of View → Francia (mayors of the palaces of Austrasia and Neustria) View → Roman Empire, Eastern: Isaurian dynasty View → Francia (Carolingians) View → Papal States (Republic of St. Peter) View →

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