Amalfi — Amalfi Coast — Campania

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Amalfi was one of the four great maritime republics of medieval Italy — alongside Venice, Genoa, and Pisa — and its own unit of measurement, the Amalfi table, governed trade across the Mediterranean.

The town invented the magnetic compass, or at least its practical marine application, in the 11th century — a legacy celebrated with a monument in the main square.