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  Tavolara Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1836, King Charles Albert of Sardinia visited the island and acknowledged Paolo Bertoleoni as an independent sovereign monarch.
When King Paolo I died in 1886 the island became a republic, but the monarchy was reinstated again in 1895.
Since that time the island's kings have all come from the Bertoleoni family, recognized as the rules of Tavolara by the Kings of Sardinia.
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 Bertoleoni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bertoleoni is the family name of the kings of Tavolara Island (Sardinia, Italy), supposedly the smallest kingdom of the world.
King Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, visited Tavolara in 1836 and acknowledged that the island was separate from the kingdom of Sardinia.
He acknowledged Paolo Bertoleoni as King of Tavolara.
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 ITALIA - Spotlight On ... Other Islands of Sardinia
For centuries wild goats have been the only inhabitants of this high and rectangular-shaped island that was the first sight of Sardinia to welcome the ships sailing back from the continent.
The Corsicans settled there at the beginning of the XIX century and Charles Albert the King of Sardinia decided to appoint Paolo Bertoleoni King of Tavolara in 1836.
The graves of members of the Royal Family can still be seen in the small cemetery located in the lower part of the island where there is a small landing area and two restaurants.
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 Hello Sardinia
Her scarce accessibility favors the maintenance of the natural landscape formed by low stain and bushes of juniper, rosemary, lentischio and eliocriso on which some exemplary lives of wild sheep (mouflon) cared some years ago.
The island is the smallest kingdom of the whole world because around the beginnings dell’800 a shepherd Giuseppe Bertoleoni that he remained from there so spellbound, it moved you and it let her become such, thanks to the intervention of King Carlo Alberto, that the hegemony recognized him.
Now the island is ownership of the descendants; there is the house of the Bertoleoni with the coat of arms of family and back the houses there is a small cemetery with the real graves.
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 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Its kings belonged to the Bertoleoni family, recognized as kings of Tavolara by the kings of Savoy (beginning with Carlo Alberto of Savoy, who visited Tavolara).
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 Bertoleoni - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Bertoleoni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Charles Albert the King of Sardinia appointed Paolo Bertoleoni King of Tavolara in 1836.
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 Footnotes to History- T
The islanders found themselves outside the notice of the world, which ended when King Charles Albert of Savoy visited the island in 1836.
Agreeing with the settlers' claim that Tavolara was outside the jurisdiction of Sardinia, Charles Albert recognized the Tavolaran leader Paolo Bertoleoni as King.
The Kingdom of Tavolara thus became the world's smallest kingdom, at about half a square kilometer.
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