The Principality of Taranto was a state in southern Italy created in 1088 for Bohemond I, eldest son of Robert Guiscard, as part of the peace between him and his younger brother Roger Borsa after a dispute over the succession to the Duchy of Apulia.
period, it became the capital of the PrincipalityofTaranto, which covered almost all of the heel of Apulia. Taranto is now the third-largest continental
the authority of the Byzantine Empire in the Treaty of Devol. Three years later, the infant Bohemond inherited the PrincipalityofTaranto under the guardianship
province ofTaranto (Italian: provincia di Taranto; Tarantino: provìgne de Tarde; Salentino: provincia ti Tàrantu), previously known as the province of the
The origin of the city ofTaranto dates from the 8th century BC when it was founded as a Greek colony, known as Taras. Taras gradually increased its influence
