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  House Of Savoy - LoveToKnow 1911
After the collapse of that monarchy its territories passed to the German kings, and Savoy was divided between the counts of Provence, of Albon, of Gex, of Bresse, of the Genevois, of Maurienne, the lords of Habsburg, of Zahringen, andc., and several prelates.
When Amadeus succeeded to the throne these were divided into the county of Savoy (his own territory), the princi pality of Piedmont ruled by his nephew Philip, prince of Achaea (a title acquired through his wife, Isabella of Villehardouin, heiress of Achaea and the Morea), and Vaud ruled by his brother Louis.
Savoy French became a French province, and, although the Pied montese troops resisted bravely for four years in the face of continual defeats, Victor at last gave up the struggle as hopeless, signed the armistice of Cherasco, and died soon afterwards (1796).
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  Savoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Savoy (French: Savoie, pronounced /savwa/; Franco-Provençal: Savouè; Italian: Savoia) is a region of western Europe that emerged, along with the free communes of Switzerland, following the collapse of the Frankish Kingdom of Burgundy.
Savoy was largely absorbed into France in 1860, as part of the political agreement with Napoleon III that brought about the unification of Italy.
Savoy was annexed by France on March 24, 1860.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Savoy
Savoy, the Roman Sabaudia, was inhabited in antiquity by the Celtic Allobroges who were conquered by the Romans in the first century before Christ and gradually became Romanized.
The oldest possessions of the line of Savoy were the counties of Maurienne (the upper valley of the River Arc), Savoy (the district between Arc, Isère, and the middle course of the Rhone), and also Belley, with Bugey as its chief town.
During the French Revolution Savoy was occupied by the French, and by the Treaty of Nice in 1796 was surrendered to France together with Nice.
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 Savoy House
Amedeo VIII : as Duke of Savoy 1416-1440
Savoie is one of the two ''départements'' of the region of Savoy that was annexed by France on March 24, 1860, the other being Haute-Savoie.
Born in Paris, and a prince of the House of Savoy, Eugene was the son of the Comte de Soissons, a French nobleman.
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 HOUSE OF SAVOY - LoveToKnow Article on HOUSE OF SAVOY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
After the collapse of that monarchy its territories passed to the German kings, and Savoy was divided between the counts of Provence, of Albon, of Gex, of Bresse, of the Genevois, of Maurienne, the lords of Habsburg, of Zahringen, andc., and several prelates.
The founder of the house of Savoy is Tfmberto Biancamano (Humbert the White-handed), a feudal lord of uncertain but probably Teutonic descent, who in 1003 was count of Salmourenc in the Viennois, lh 1017 of Nyon on the h:nded.
When Amadeus succeeded to the throne these were divided into the county of Savoy (his own territory), the princi pality of Piedmont ruled by his nephew Philip, prince of Achaea (a title acquired through his wife, Isabella of Villehardouin, heiress of Achaea and the Morea), and Vaud ruled by his brother Louis.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: House of Savoy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice and Piedmont, a member of the House of Savoy, is the second-in-line to the abolished throne of Italy.
Charles I (1468–1490), surnamed the Warrior, was the Duke of Savoy from 1482 to 1490 and titular king of Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Armenia from 1485 to 1490.
Lake of Geneva, and in 1024 of the Val dAosta on the eastern slope of the Western Alps.
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 Wikinfo | Savoy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Savoy (Italian Savoia, French Savoie) is a region of western Europe that emerged, along with the free communes of Switzerland, from the collapse of the Frankish Kingdom of Burgundy.
Installed by Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy and King of the Franks, officially in 1003, the House of Savoy maintained independence as counts (see County of Savoy, ca 1000 to 1416) and then dukes (see Duchy of Savoy, 1416 to 1714), until Savoia was linked with the Kingdom of Sardinia, which included Piemonte in north-western Italy.
The Mouvement Région Savoie (Savoie Regional Movement) was founded in December 1971 as a 'movement' (rather than a traditional political party) in favour or regional autonomy.
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 County of Savoy: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Savoy (italian savoia, french languagefrench savoie) is a region of western europe that emerged, along with the free communes of switzerland,...
The house of savoy was a dynasty of nobles who traditionally had their domain in savoy, a region between piedmont, italy, france and french-speaking switzerl...
Peter ii of savoy (1203 - 1268) was count of savoy from 1263 until his death, and built the savoy palace in london....
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 Berkshire Eagle - Our Towns
The county seat since 1868, Pittsfield is the largest community in the Berkshires and serves as the region's industrial-manufacturing center.
Savoy came into being when the state of Massachusetts awarded a six-square mile territory to Colonel William Bullock for his ancestors' service in the French and Indian Wars.
Savoy was settled by the so-called Narraganset Baptists from Plymouth and Bristol Counties of the Bay area of Massachusetts.
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 County of Savoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the later history of Savoy see Duchy of Savoy.
The Counts of Savoy (Italian Savoia, French Savoie) emerged, along with the free communes of Switzerland, from the collapse of the Frankish Kingdom of Burgundy.
Installed by Rudolph III, King of Burgundy, officially in 1003, the House of Savoy maintained independence as counts, (to 1416) and then as dukes (see Duchy of Savoy, 1416 to 1714).
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 Harrys Savoy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Savoy was largely absorbed into France in 1860, as part of the political agreement with.
the castle of the House of Savoy and the Savoyard senate.
savoy to Austria for harrys savoy Sardinia the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1720.
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 HOUSE OF SAVOY - Online Information article about HOUSE OF SAVOY
Charlemagne's empire and was divided by him into counties, which evolved there as elsewhere into hereditary fiefs; but after the.break-up of Charlemagne's empire, the Burgundian kingdom revived and Savoy was again absorbed in it.
Eugene of Savoy (1706), and eventually driven from the country.
Richelieu, to govern Savoy, but her quarrels with her brothers-in-law led to civil war, in which the latter obtained the help of Spain, and Christina that of France.
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In February 1999, a 1985 Buick LeSabre automobile driven by Savoy and a van driven by Watson were involved in an automobile collision at the intersection of U.S. Highway 90 and Demetropolis Road in Mobile County.
On appeal, Savoy argues that the trial court abused its discretion by granting Watson's motion for a new trial because, she says, the jury verdict was not inconsistent or otherwise inadequate in light of the controverted and conflicting evidence presented regarding Watson's alleged damages.
Savoy also argues that her attorney's alleged question to the venire during voir dire did not "taint the jury panel" so as to prevent Watson from receiving a fair trial.
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 House of Savoy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The founder of the house of Savoy was Humbert I the Whitehanded (mid-11th century), who held the county of Savoy and other areas east of the Rhône River and south of Lake Geneva and who was probably of Burgundian origin.
By the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Victor Amadeus II (reigned 1675–1730) was raised in 1713 from duke to the status of a king as ruler of Sicily; in 1720 he exchanged Sicily for Sardinia.
At the beginning of the Risorgimento, the territory of the house of Savoy, centred on Piedmont, was unique among Italian states for its freedom from foreign influence and for its relative military strength.
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 Savoy Mountain State Forest, a Massachusetts State Park near Clarksburg, Pittsfield, Troy
The mid-1800's brought construction of the Hoosac Tunnel for railroad transportation and a population boom for the towns of Florida and Savoy.
When the tunnel was completed, the railway workers left, and many of the town's young people left the area to work in the woolen mills in the larger towns of Adams and North Adams, or to join the land rush to the west.
Savoy Mountain State Forest is located in the northern part of western Massachusetts.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
Fannin County comprises 895 square miles of mainly flland, with a claypan area in the north near the Red River.
Residents of Fannin County were infuriated particularly by the Indians' practice of mutilating dead bodies, and their indiscriminate killing of women and children.
In 2002 the county had 1,976 farms and ranches covering 483,446 acres, 59 percent of which were devoted to crops, 32 percent to pasture, and 8 percent to woodland.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Savoy,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 and the First Institute of Heilongjiang Province, China, to Celebrate Historic Signing Ceremony.
Savoy Jazz Set for Ambitious New Year: Acquires Muse and Landmark Catalogues - Acquisition Gives CME Subsidiary Commanding Presence in Jazz - Savoy Returns to Active Recording after a Long Hiatus; Savoy Acquires Muse and Landmark.
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 Fort Tours | Fannin County Historical Markers
Fannin County was created in 1837, organized in 1838, and named for James W. Fannin (1805-36), who was massacred with his soldiers at Goliad (March 27, 1836) after surrendering to the Mexican Army.
The county seat was moved in 1840 to Warren and in 1843 to Bois d'Arc, which was renamed in 1844 in honor of James Butler Bonham (1807-36), a hero of the siege of the Alamo.
Upon the creation of Fannin County in 1837 and its organization the following year, Sowell was appointed to the county board of land commissioners and served as county treasurer.
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 Savoy Hotel Miami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Savoy (Italian Savoia, French Savoie) is a region of western Europe that emerged, along with the free communes of Switzerland, from the collapse of the Frankish Kingdom ofBurgundy.
Installed by Rudolph III, King ofBurgundy, officially in 1003, the House of Savoy maintainedindependence as counts (see County of Savoy, ca 1000 to 1416)and then dukes (see Duchy of Savoy, 1416 to 1714), until Savoia was linked with the Kingdom of Sardinia, which included Piemonte in north-western Italy.
Miami is a city located in southeast Florida in Miami-Dade County onthe Miami River, between the Florida Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean, in the United States.
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 Savoy, Massachusetts 01256 - The Berkshires - Berkshire County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Savoy, Massachusetts 01256 - The Berkshires - Berkshire County
A prosperous mountain town in the early nineteenth century, its population fell from 955 in 1850 to 467 in 1975.
Donald Smith noted in "Berkshire County Landmarks", in reference to Savoy, that "the works of man have been less fully developed and less fully preserved in the mountains of Berkshire County".
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 Aosta - WOI Encyclopedia Italia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
After the creation of the county of Savoy, with its capital in Chambery, Aosta followed its history, as well as the later Kingdom of Sardinia and unified Italy.
Under the Savoy House Aosta was granted a special status that it mantained after the new Italian Republic was proclaimed in 1948.
It was the residence of the Savoy viscounts.
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 Savoy, Massachusetts MA, town profile (Berkshire County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Massachusetts > All counties > Berkshire County > Savoy
Savoy is a town in Berkshire County, in the Pittsfield metro area.
Savoy is on the Westford River, in the Green Mountains
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 Savoy, Illinois -- FAQ
Savoy residents should call (217)384-2500 for Insight Communications for repair, installation, and billing problems.
The cost share cannot exceed $100.00 per tree and is limited to those trees receiving approval by the Public Works Department prior to purchase and installation.
The tax rate for the Village of Savoy is 6.5%.
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 Savoy Hotel
Melba toast is also attributed to the hotel's kitchen; it is said that Dame Nellie ordered toast and was served with several pieces that were unusually thin and crisp and almost burnt, thus creating a new dish.
One curiosity of the Savoy is the fact that its forecourt is the only street in the United Kingdom where vehicles are required to drive on the right.
According to the official report by the Clark County Fire Department, the cause of the fire was an improperly grounded electrical wire.
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
Savoy Male and Female College, at Savoy, in Fannin County, was one of the first coeducational academic institutions in North Texas.
In 1887-88 the college enrollment was forty men and twenty-five women, the primary department had 102 children, the preparatory department registered 133, and the institution enrolled forty-four Indian students, one at the college level.
Although Savoy College had established a reputation as an institution of sound academic standing by the late 1880s, it failed to recover from a fire that destroyed the college plant in 1890.
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 Chambéry (Municipality, Savoie, France)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chambéry became the capital of the County of Savoy in 1232, which was erected to Duchy in 1391.
The flag of Chambéry is the Savoy cross (white on red) with a yellow five-pointed star in first quarter.
Its burgee is made of five blue-white-blue-white-blue stripes converging to the point of the flag and the traditional cross of Savoy (white cross on red) in canton.
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 DelcoTimes - All-Delco Football: Wasson is the complete package   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During the weekly meetings of the Delaware County Football Coaches Association, Wasson was a near lock for MVP recognition.
Jamar Savoy, Ridley: From the opening week of the season, Savoy was a machine on the defensive line, evidenced in his 19 sacks for a defense rated among the elite units in Delaware County.
Savoy's play helped the Green Raiders to the Class AAAA postseason and to a nine-victory season.
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 Those Alsobrooks: Second Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A log courthouse and a small frame building for the clerk's office were erected and in October 1834 the county commissioners reported a house ready for the reception of the court "in the town of Murfreesboro the county seat of Pike County.
Pike county in 1999 is in the center of the lower SW quadrant of the state.
Pike County is NW of Nevada County where Ralph and Mattie married, sharing a short common border.
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 internet speed, accommodates, saxony, switzerland, aaa, savoy, new york city, inn, ambassador, bethel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In a raid led by prince eugene of savoy in 1697 against the ottoman empire, sarajevo was burned down and leveled.
The congress of vienna designated monaco as a protectorate of the kingdom of sardinia from 1815 until 1860 when the treaty of turin ceded to france the surrounding countship of nizza and savoy.
Ritchie, living in a time when the appalachians had opened up to outside influence, was university educated and ultimately moved to new york city, where she made a number of classic recordings of the family repertoire and published an important compilation of these songs.
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