Genoa
Genoa names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Genoa jen'o-a, a city of Italy
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
jen'o-a, a city of Italy. It is situated on the Mediterranean Sea at the foot of the Apennines. The harbor of Genoa is a semi-circular body of water, about a mile in width and of great depth. It is one of the safest anchorages in Europe. A lighthouse 300 feet high guides ships through the entrance. Viewed from the harbor, the city presents an imposing array of palaces, churches, terraced gardens, and orange groves, behind which rise ranges of hills surmounted by forts, batteries, and outworks. The interior of the city, however, is a labyrinth of narrow, dirty lanes, inaccessible to vehicles. Many of these thoroughfares, which are merely wide enough for the passage of pack mules, are lined with lofty buildings, once the residences of wealthy merchant princes. Among the principal buildings are the ducal palace, formerly occupied by the doges, and the palace of Andrea Doria, presented to him by the city in 1522. There are numerous museums and art galleries and public institutions, including a public library of 50,000 volumes. A magnificent monument has been erected to the memory of Christopher Columbus, who was born here. In the Middle Ages Genoa was a commercial rival of Venice. The city still has an extensive commerce. It exports $20,000,000 worth annually of olive oil, fruit, fish, steel goods, velvets, silks, damask, gloves, straw braid, artificial flowers, paper, soap, coral, macaroni, and marble. The population at the beginning of the twentieth century was reported at 234,710. See Florence ; Italy
Genoa GULF OF, a large indentation in the N
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GULF OF, a large indentation in the N. shore of the Mediterhaving between ranean, N. of Corsica, the W. and the towns of Oneglia on width of nearly 90 Spezia on the E. a miles, with a depth of about 30 miles.
Genoa ITALY BERLIN
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ITALY BERLIN, GERMANY
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Aiton's 1910 figure of 234,710 residents has more than doubled to roughly 560,000 today, though that is well down from a peak of over 800,000 in the 1970s, as shipbuilding and steel declined. The "labyrinth of narrow, dirty lanes" lined with the palaces of merchant princes is now a tourist asset: the Strada Nuova (Via Garibaldi) and its Palazzi dei Rolli were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2006, and the old harbour was rebuilt to Renzo Piano's designs for the 1992 Columbus quincentenary, complete with a large aquarium. The port remains one of the busiest in the Mediterranean, but Genoa's most reported event of recent years was the collapse of the Morandi motorway viaduct in August 2018, which killed 43 people; a replacement bridge opened in 2020.
Written for this edition, 2026.