Padua is unconnected politically to the province of Padua.
=== Austrian rule ===In 1797 the Venetian Republic came to an end with the Treaty of Campo Formio, and Padua, like much of the Veneto region, was ceded to the Habsburgs
 In 91 BC, Padua, along with other cities of the Veneti, fought with Rome against the rebels in the Social War

