The Campagna and Marittima Province (

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''Campaniæ Maritimæque Provincia'',

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''Provincia di Campagna e Marittima'') was one of the seven

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s of the

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from the 12th century to the end of the 18th. The province was established by

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in the year 1198, with

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as its capital. Innocent's aim was to counter attempts to achieve self-government in some of the towns in the south of his domains, such as

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, Ferentino,

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and Terracina, by installing a

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at Ferentino. Even before that the "Province of the Roman Campagna and Marittima Province' was part of the Patrimony of St Peter. Porta romana a Frosinone

In 1357, the establishment of the province was confirmed by the '' Constitutiones Sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ''. The province was administered by a class of feudal 'Roman barons'.Peter Partner, ''Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559: a portrait of a society'' (1980), p. 65: "The 'Roman barons' were the feudal class of the Roman area, or more exactly the feudal class of the papal provinces of the Patrimony of St Peter in Tuscany, of Campagna and the Maritime Province, of Sabina or part of it..."

Marittima e Campagna

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as part of the

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. It covered a slightly larger area than the old Campagna and Marittima province.

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