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 Sardinia
Sardinia, moreover, was abandoned to its fate by the Byzantines more than the peninsula, and consequently the tradition which dates in the sixth century the origin of the three (later four) judicatures, into which the island was later divided, may have a historical foundation.
Charles Emmanuel to conquer the Milanese allied himself with France and Spain, in the War of the Polish Succession; he was frequently victorious but only obtained the region on the right of the Ticino (1738).
Charles Emmanuel withdrew to Sardinia; and in 1802 abdicated in favour of his brother Victor Emmanuel I (1802-21), who in 1814 was returned to Turin and saw his dominions increased by the inclusion of Genoa.
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 Charles IV
When he was born, Charles Emanuel was also fifth in line to the English and Scottish thrones - after Charles, Prince of Wales, Henry, Cardinal Duke of York, King Charles Emanuel III of Sardinia, and the Duke of Savoy (later King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia).
Charles Emanuel's sister Giuseppina suggested a match with her sister-in-law Princess Marie-Clothilde of France, daughter of the late Dauphin Louis and of his wife, Princess Maria Josefa of Saxony.
Charles Emanuel was henceforward recognised by the Jacobites as "King Charles IV".
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 Sardinia - LoveToKnow 1911
Sardinia lies between 8° 7' and 9° 49' E., and extends from 38° 52' to 41° 15' N. The length from Cape Teulada in the S.W. to Punta del Falcone in the N. is about 160 m., the breadth from Cape Comino to Cape Caccia about 68 m.
The early history of Sardinia is entirely unknown.' The various accounts of Greek writers of the early colonizations of the island cannot be accepted, and it appears rather to have been the case that though there were various schemes formed by Greeks for occupying it or parts of it (e.g.
It is thus clear that in the Bronze Age Sardinia was fairly thickly populated over by far the greater part of its extent; this may explain the lack of Greek colonies, except for Olbia, the modern Terranova, and Neapolis on the cians.
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 Qwika - similar:Charles_IV,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
Charles IV (May 14, 1316 – 29 November, 1378), of the House of Luxembourg, King of the Romans (as Charles (Karl) IV, 1346 – 1378), Holy Roman Emperor (Charles IV, 1355 – 1378), King of Bohemia (Charles (Karel) I 1346 – 1378), Count of Luxemburg (1346 – 1353), Margrave of Brandenburg (1373 – 137...
Louis IV of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach (born 1282) was duke of Bavaria from 1294/1301 together with his brother Rudolf I, also count of the Palatinate until 1329 and, German king since 1314 and crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in 1328.
Charles VHoly Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V (24 February 1500–21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain and ruler of the Burgundian territories.
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 Wikinfo | Kingdom of Sardinia
The Kingdom of Sardinia is a former kingdom in Italy.
Although its name was the Kingdom of Sardinia, the main part of the kingdom was Savoy, under which royal house (the House of Savoy) the kingdom resorted.
In 1831 Carlo Felice was succeded by the moderate conservative Charles Albert.
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 Abdication - MSN Encarta
Ill health caused the abdication of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1558 and of King Philip V of Spain in 1724.
King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia was compelled by the French government to abdicate in 1802; his successor, King Victor Emmanuel I, abdicated in 1821 in the face of a popular uprising against his regime.
Foreign force compelled the abdications of the Polish kings Augustus II the Strong, Stanislas I Leszczyński (1735), and Stanislas II Augustus (1795) and of Charles IV of Spain (1808).
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 Columbia Encyclopedia- Savoy house of - AOL Research & Learn
Emmanuel Philibert's son and successor, Charles Emmanuel I, unsuccessfully sought to reconquer Geneva.
His brother and successor, Charles Felix, died without issue in 1831, and the cadet line of Savoy-Carignano, descended from a younger son of Charles Emmanuel I, came to the throne in the person of Charles Albert.
In Charles Albert's reign the house of Savoy became the center of the Risorgimento, the movement that led to the unification of Italy under his son, Victor Emmanuel II.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sardinia
Sardinia, kingdom of name given to the possessions of the house of Savoy (see Savoy, house of) in 1720, when the island of Sardinia was awarded (by the Treaty of London) to Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy to compensate him for the loss of Sicily to Austria.
Savoy, house of dynasty of Western Europe that ruled Savoy and Piedmont from the 11th cent., the kingdom of Sicily from 1714 to 1718, the kingdom of Sardinia from 1720 to 1861, and the kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1946.
Incidence and Diversity of Neotyphodium Fungal Endophytes in Tall Fescue from Morocco, Tunisia, and Sardinia.
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 Kingdom of Sardinia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
Kingdom of Sardinia, in 1839: Mainland [[Piedmont, with Savoia upper left (pink) and Nizza (Nice) lower left (brown) both now French, and Sardinia in the inset]] The Kingdom of Sardinia is a former Kingdom in Italy.
In 1720 the Kingdom of Sicily was exchanged for that of Sardinia, and the House of Savoy was enabled to call itself royal, as Kings of Sardinia.
In the conservative reaction after Napoleon, the country was ruled by conservative monarchs: Vittorio Emmanuele I and Carlo Felice, who fought at the head of a contingent of his own troops at the Battle of Trocadero that set the reactionary Ferdinand VII on the Spanish throne.
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 Savoy, house of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
After the acquisition of Sardinia, the political history of the dynasty became that of the kingdom of Sardinia (see Sardinia, kingdom of) and of Italy.
Victor Amadeus II was succeeded by Charles Emmanuel III (reigned 1730–73), Victor Amadeus III (reigned 1773–96), and Charles Emmanuel IV, who lost all but the island of Sardinia to Napoleon I and abdicated (1802) in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel I.
A younger son of Victor Emmanuel II, Amadeus, was given the title duke of Aosta; he was king of Spain from 1870 to 1873.
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 Jacobitism information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
Charles Edward Stuart (later known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender) who was in exile in Rome with his father (James Francis) was invited to accompany the expedition and rushed to France, but a storm destroyed the attempt.
Charles landed with his seven men of Moidart on the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides on 23 July 1745, and though Scottish clans initially showed little enthusiasm Charles went on to lead the Second Jacobite Rising in his father's name, taking Perth and Edinburgh almost unopposed.
Charles IV (ex-King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (July 13, 1807 – October 6, 1819), who was descended from the youngest daughter of Charles I).
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His son, King Charles Emmanuel III (1701-1773) succeeded his father upon his abdication.šš In cunning and statecraft the new king was very much like his father but he also labored hard to improve the standing and position of the church in Savoy.
Charles Emmanuel detested the anti-clerical and revolutionary ideas of the French and could not forget the execution of King Louis XVI, his brother-in-law.
Charles Felix directed that he be laid to rest in Hautecombe instead of Superga in Turin, the modern mausoleum of his House.
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 Informat.io on James Ii Of England
James, the second surviving son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France, was born at St.
Charles II was recognised by the Parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of Ireland, and was crowned King of Scots at Scone, in Scotland, in 1651.
Charles in turn was succeeded by his younger brother Henry Benedict Stuart, a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
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 kazzacom.info - biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians, download mp3. loans, kazi, retro, ellington, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
In 977, charles, duke of lorraine, built the fortress on the senne river that was the foundation of brussels griffon puppy.
The grandson of isabella and ferdinand, information on ray charles v, holy roman emperor but called in spain carlos i, extended his crown to other places in europe and the rest of the world.
Normandy is the native land of taillevent, cook of the kings of france charles v and charles vi.
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 Abdication - MSN Encarta
Foreign force compelled the abdications of the Polish kings Augustus II the Strong, Stanisław I Leszczyński (1735), and Stanisław II Augustus (1795) and of Charles IV of Spain (1808).
The Iranian ruler Reza Shah Pahlavi was allegedly an Axis sympathizer, so when Britain and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) occupied key areas of Iran in 1941 he abdicated in favor of his son.
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicated in 1946 in favor of his son, Humbert II.
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 "Prince Michael of Albany"
The story continues that according to the "Stuart archives in Rome and Brussels" Charles married "Marguerite Marie Therese O'Dea d'Audibert de Lussan, Comtesse de Massillan" in November 1785 in the Church of the Santi Apostoli in Rome.
Charles certainly would not be referred to as king in a baptismal register in the city of Rome where the pope was insistent that he must use an alias; in 1767 the Rectors of the English, Scots, and Irish Colleges had each been dismissed by the pope for publicly praying for Charles as king.
Eduardo Jacobi is in the dative or ablative case, while the titles of duke (Dux) and prince (Princeps) and the word born (natus) are in the nominative case.
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 Italian Unification
An insurrection in 1848 caused pope Pius IX to flee Rome and a republic was proclaimed.
King Charles Albert of Sardinia mobilized his army and marched to the assistance of Lombardy and joined in the war to drive the Austrians from Italian soil.
Napoleon's growing concern with respect to the sudden (large) size of his neighbor was resolved in part by the cessation of the Sardinian provinces of Savoy, near the Alps, and Nice, on the Mediterranean coast to France in 1860.
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 kazzacom.info - biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians, download mp3. retro, kazi, charles, new orleans, world ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
* Charles I of Hungary, the grandson of King Charles II of Naples * Charles III of Naples, the son of Louis of Durazzo and Margherita of Sanseverino
In 977, charles, duke of lorraine, built the fortress on the senne river that was the foundation of brussels.
In 1957 charles hard townes and arthur leonard schawlow, then at bell labs, began a serious study of the infrared maser.
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 The Directorate: Draft Thread - Page 3 - Alternate History Discussion Board
His eldest son, Charles Emmanuel IV, is forced to the negotiating table by the growing threat of native Jacobinism.
His eldest son, Charles Emmanuel IV, is forced to the negotiating table by the growing threat of native Jacobinism in Piedmont.
With the signature of the Treaty of Torino, Sardinia reneges on its alliance with Austria, ceding the western half of Savoy to the French Directorate.
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 piedmontese history 2
In this period the king of Piedmont is Charles Emanuel IV, not a good king, which had to leave, in practice, the goverment to the French.
From Sardinia Charles Emmanuel IV abdicated the throne in favour of the brother Victor Emmanuel I Duke of Aoste, in exile, anyway.
Certainly king Victor Emmanuel I was not the king suited for this passage, but at the same time was aware of being unable to manage the new situation of the state.
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 Etrembières (Municipality, Haute-Savoie, France)
In 1536, duke of Savoy Charles III allied with German emperor Charles V. As a consequence, king of France François I invaded Savoy.
Charles lost all of his states, which were shared between France, Valais and Bern.
Veyrier was (and still is) one of them, whereas Etrembières was incorporated to Sardinia.
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IV, No. 1, issue # 13, pp 48-54, James II was still king, that is, he had the support of “international law” on his side.
Charles Stuart, called "Bonnie Prince Charlie", styled king as Charles III [after his father’s death] while in exile, also called "The Young Pretender" in contrast to his father, the Prince of Wales, who was called "The Old Pretender", came to Britain in 1745 asserting his claim to the throne.
Prince Charles gained a victory at Falkirk over troops sent by King George, but was utterly defeated and routed in another battle at Culloden (1746), and the movement to restore the hereditary-line was brutally crushed more or less ending the hopes of the dispossessed Stuarts for another restoration.
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 Personalities of Louisiana: Charles III of Spain
Charles' (or Don Carlos) mother is Elizabeth Farnese (1692-1766) a granddaughter of the Duke of Parma (in Italy).
Ferdinand is closer to his uncle Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia.
The Prince of Asturias will be Charles IV and his wife the princess is his first cousin, Maria Luisa, the daughter of Philip, Duke of Parma and Don Carlos' brother.
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 Jacobitism - Free net encyclopedia
Charles IV (ex-King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (July 13, 1807 – October 6, 1819), who was descended from the youngest daughter of Charles I).
Victor (King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia) (October 6, 1819 – January 10, 1824), his brother.
Rupert (or Robert I and IV, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria) (February 3, 1919 – August 2, 1955), her son.
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 Qwika - similar:Wenceslas_Square
Charles Bridge on a winter's day, as viewed from the Old Town bridge tower.
Charles Bridge (Czech: Karlův most (help·info)) is a famous historical bridge crossing the Vltava river in Prague, Czech Republic.
Location: 50°5′11.21″N, 14°24′42.68″E. Its construction started in 1357 under the auspices of King Charles IV, and finished on the beginning of 15th century.
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 Charles Felix of Sardinia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As the succession was regulated by the Salic Law, Charles Felix succeeded his brother on the throne.
Coat of Arms of the Kings of Sardinia of the House of Savoy after 1815.
This biography of a member of a European royal house is a stub.
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 KING OF SARDINIA - Online Information article about KING OF SARDINIA
line of the princes of Carignano, who were descended from Thomas, youngest son of Charles Emmanuel I.
April 20, 1849), in favour of his son Victor Emmanuel II.
CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat.
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