History
Further information: PolesineThe territory of the province was first colonized by the Greeks, who founded in the 12th-11th centuries BC the colony of Adria. During the 6th and 5th centuries BC Etruscans and Venetians inhabited the area, followed by the Romans.
In the Middle Ages the Este were the rulers, but anyway the territory was not an administrative unit of the duchy; more than one Podesteria was even set over both sides of the Po river.
After the War of Ferrara in 1484 the Republic of Venice started ruling over the northern part of Polesine; the Venetians set it as a territorio whose capital was Rovigo, thus giving the area an administrative unity for the first time. This can be viewed as the start of the province of Rovigo, though the extension was a bit less than nowadays because the borders were set on the Canal Bianco river with few exceptions: the territories of Polesella, Guarda Veneta, Adria and the delta of the Po were included in the Venetian territorio of Rovigo.
After the Congress of Vienna in 1815 all the territories to the north of the Po were included into the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, thus giving the province of Rovigo the extension it has nowadays.
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