The Historical Geography of Europe, Vol. I, TextFreeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
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The Historical Geography of Europe, Vol. I, Text
Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
Europe -- Historical geography
Palaiologoi at Montferrat; house of Visconti at Milan; the duchy
of Milan; its dismemberment; duchy of Parma and Piacenza 240-242
Land power of Venice 242-243
Other principalities; duchy of Mantua, of Ferrara and Modena;
difference in their tenure 243-244
Romagna; Bologna; Urbino; advance of the Popes 244
The Tuscan cities; Lucca; rivalry of Pisa and Genoa; Siena;
Florence 245
Duchy of Florence; grand duchy of Tuscany 246
§ 4. _The Later Geography of Italy._
The kingdom practically forgotten; position of Charles the Fifth 246
Italy a geographical expression; changes in the Italian states 246-247
Dominion of the two branches of the house of Austria 247
Italy mapped into larger states; exceptions at Monaco and
San Marino 247
Venice; Milan Spanish and Austrian; its dismemberment in favour
of Savoy; end of Montferrat and Mantua 248-249
Parma and Piacenza; separation of Modena and Ferrara; Genoa
and Lucca; Grand Duchy of Tuscany; advance of the Popes 249
The Norman kingdom of Sicily; Benevento 250
The Two Sicilies; their various unions and divisions; their
relations to the houses of Austria, Savoy and Bourbon 250-251
Use of the name _Sardinia_ 251
Wars of the French Revolution; the new republics; Treaty of
Campo Formio; Piedmont joined to France 251-253
Restoration of the Pope and the King of the Two Sicilies 253
The French kingdoms; Etruria; Italy 253
Various annexations; Rome becomes French; Murat King of Naples 253-254
Italy under French dominion; revival of the Italian name 254-255
Settlement of 1814-1815; the princes restored, but not the
commonwealths 255
Austrian kingdom of Lombardy and Venice; Genoa annexed by
Piedmont 255-256
The smaller states; the Papal states; Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies 256
Union of Italy comes from Piedmont; earlier movements; war of
1859; Kingdom of Italy: Savoy and Nizza ceded to France 257-258
Recovery of Venetia and Rome; parts of the kingdom not recovered 258
Freedom of San Marino 258
§ 5. _The Kingdom of Burgundy._
Union of Burgundy with Germany; dying out of the kingdom;
chiefly swallowed up by France, but represented by
Switzerland 258-259
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