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		Sardinia, kingdom of 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 -> Savoy and Piedmont Its first important member was Count Humbert the Whitehanded, a powerful feudal lord of the kingdom of Arles (in SE France) in the 11th cent.
		Savoy, house of -> The Kingdom of Sardinia 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.
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	La Famiglia Abruzzese: Timelines; Italian Peninsula 3
		Victor Emmanuel II (King of Piedmont and Sardinia) declared the formation of the Kingdom of Italy and became it's king (March 17).
		Piedmontese troops (of Count di Cavour/Kingdom of Sardinia) fought in the Crimean campaign as allies to Britain and France.
		Garibaldi's troops were successful (for the Kingdom of Sardinia) against the professional army of Sicily's kingdom and then turned to the Italian mainland capturing southern Italy and Naples.
	www.cimorelli.com /pie/regions/abruzzo/tlineit3.htm

	MSN Encarta - Italian Unification
		On the French border was the Kingdom of Sardinia, also called Piedmont-Sardinia, which had slowly expanded since the Middle Ages and was the most advanced state in Italy.
		The Kingdom of Sardinia was sympathetic toward Garibaldi but maintained a policy of neutrality until it appeared that Garibaldi was about to send his army into Rome, which was protected by French troops.
		Cavour's policy was to secure for the Kingdom of Sardinia the diplomatic and military support of Napoleon III, the French emperor.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761580632/Italian_Unification.html

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		During the first half of the eighteenth century the Kingdom of Sardinia was formed by the annexation to Piedmont, thus rewarding the Dukes of Savoy for military merits.
		After the peace of Aquisgrana though, Piedmont having lost it`s importance as the balance between the rivals Austria and France, the Kingdom of Sardinia closed itself in a policy of isolation that put it almost outside of Italian life.
		Nearly a century was to pass before Piedmont abandoned this policy and in the nineteenth century played a primary part in the political renewal of the Italian Risorgimento.
	www.west.net /~brad/venice/history1.htm (553 words)

	PlanetPapers - Unification of Italy
		After he conducted a plebiscite in the Kingdom of the 2 Sicilies, he found out that all they wished was to join Piedmont Sardinia.
		Garibaldi easily gathered 1000 volunteers in Piedmont Sardinia to sail off with him to an expedition to Kingdom of the 2 Sicilies.
		Both associated with the new king of Piedmont Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel 2nd, but it was Cavour who played a role first in the unification of Italy.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/Print/3183.php (553 words)

	ellaelizaancestors
		Apart from the kingdom of Piedmont Sardinia and Rome (ruled by the pope), these states were ruled by a number of different foreign countries.
		Count Cavour, the chief minister of the kingdom of Piedmont Sardinia, made an alliance with France in 1858, and together they defeated the Austrians in 1859.
		In 1848 revolutions against foreign rule broke out in many Italian cities and states, but they were quickly defeated.
	www.storytelling.freeserve.co.uk /famtree/ellaelizaancestors.htm (553 words)

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		In the south, Piedmont was united Sardinia to form the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia.
		By the congress, Piedmont Sardinia was strengthened by giving Genoa and Savoy and so Sardinia was strengthened and powerful enough to play as the leader in the Italian Unification movement.
		For example, in the north Holland was made to unite with Belgium and Luxembourg to form the kingdom of United Netherlands and in the southeast, Switzerland was made a neutral to become a buffer of France.
	www.slc.edu.hk /his/example1.htm (553 words)

	Sardinia -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1718, by the Treaty of London among the great powers, Victor Amadeus II, duke of Savoy and sovereign of Piedmont, was forced to yield Sicily to the Austrian Habsburgs and in exchange received Sardinia (until then a Spanish possession).
		During the reign of his father, Charles Albert (1798–1849), the island kingdom of Sardinia was united with the kingdom of...
		(1733–38), contest arising over the rival claims of the Elector Augustus of Saxony and Stanislaus Leszcynski to the throne of Poland; Stanislaus backed by France, Spain, and Sardinia; Augustus by...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9065761 (553 words)

	Italian unification Cavour Garibaldi Italy German unification
		The former Duchy of Savoy meanwhile, originally based on limited territories north of the Alps, had expanded to also include Nice, Piedmont (an extensive territory in the north-east of the Italian peninsula) and the island of Sardinia and was now known now by its senior title as the Kingdom of Sardinia.
		Napoleon III drew back from his pact with Sardinia-Piedmont and an armistice of Villafranca, concluded in early July between France and Austria without consultation with Sardinia, formally awarded only Lombardy and Parma to annexation stating that several of the states that had experienced revolts should be restored to their former rulers.
		The population of the Kindom of Italy at this time was some 22 million, of whom 8 million lived in the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and of whom 17 million were illiterate.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /history/italian_unification.html (553 words)

	Italian States to 1860 P to V
		22 Mar 1860 Part of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
		25 May 1848 (Piacenza) Annexation to Kingdom of Sardinia decreed.
		May 1808 Part of Tuscany (which itself is part of France).
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Italy_states2.htm (553 words)

	Napoleonic Era in Italy
		Following the restoration of European peace in 1815, Italy consisted of the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont, Sardinia, Savoy, and Genoa); the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (including Naples and Sicily); the Papal States; and Tuscany and a series of smaller duchies in north central Italy.
		After two decades of Napoleon's modern but harsh rule, profound changes took place in Italy; many Italians began to see the possibilities of forging a united country free of foreign control.
		Lombardy and Venetia were now controlled by the Austrians.
	www.arcaini.com /ITALY/ItalyHistory/NapoleonicEra.htm (553 words)

	Italian Unification
		The Kingdom of Sardinia consisted of the island of Sardinia and the region called Piedmont in northwestern Italy.
		the Papal States that controlled the center of the Italian peninsula; and (c) the existence of various states that had maintained independence, such as the Kingdom of Sardinia, also called Piedmont-Sardinia, which located at the French border had slowly expanded since the Middle Ages and was considered the most advanced state in Italy.
		The Kingdom of Sicily that occupied the island of Sicily and the entire southern half of the Italian peninsula.
	www.arcaini.com /ITALY/ItalyHistory/ItalianUnification.htm (1463 words)

	Sardinia -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		During the reign of his father, Charles Albert (1798–1849), the island kingdom of Sardinia was united with the kingdom of Piedmont on the Italian mainland.
		kingdom of the house of Savoy from 1720, which was centred on the lands of Piedmont (in northwestern Italy) and Sardinia.
		It lies 120 miles (200 km) west of the mainland of Italy, 7.5 miles (12 km) south of the neighbouring French island of Corsica, and 120 miles (200 km) north of the coast of Africa.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9065761 (798 words)

	Kingdom of Sardinia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
		On March 17, 1861 the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed thus ending Sardinia as a separate kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piedmont-Sardinia (798 words)

	Piedmont-Sardinia
		Turin The chief town of a civil province in Piedmont and was formerly the capital of the Duchy of Savoy and of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
		Sardinia by Bike Cycling in Sardinia: tour descriptions, both on and off-road, advice, tips and useful links.
		City of Piedmont, Missouri Information on the history, government, businesses, and recreational facilities of Piedmont.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Piedmont-Sardinia.html (798 words)

	Kingdom of Sardinia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although its name was the Kingdom of Sardinia, the main part of the 18th- and 19th-century territories of the House of Savoy was in Savoy and Piedmont, with a capital at Turin.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Sardinia (961 words)

	Piedmont
		Piedmont formed the most important part of the kingdom of Sardinia.
	www.factopia.com /practical-reference-vol4/piedmont-sardinia-italy.htm (961 words)

	Sardinia-Piedmont, Kingdom of, 1848-1849
		Consequently Piedmont returned to the position and frontiers provided by the treaties of 1815, constrained to give up all claims to the territories which had briefly formed part of the Kingdom of Northern Italy.
		Forged by the dukes of Savoy who in 1720 acquired the island of Sardinia and the title of king, their capital Turin, at the opening of the nineteenth century was more French than Italian.
		The Austrians might have imposed harsher terms but for the watchful position of England and France who were determined to preserve Piedmont as a buffer between France and Austria.
	www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/rz/sard.htm (961 words)

	Count Camillo Benso di Cavour
		Cavour was born in 1810 in Turin, today a large city northwestern Italy, which was at that time the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia (also known as the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia), ruled by the Italian House of Savoy.
		The kingdoms voted for union with Sardinia, and the Kingdom of Italy[?] was proclaimed in March of 1861.
		Sardinia entered the war as an ally of Great Britain and France in exchange for promises that the future of Italy would be seriously considered as an international issue.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Cavour.html (967 words)

	Italian Unification
		the Papal States that controlled the center of the Italian peninsula; and (c) the existence of various states that had maintained independence, such as the Kingdom of Sardinia, also called Piedmont-Sardinia, which located at the French border had slowly expanded since the Middle Ages and was considered the most advanced state in Italy.
		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.
		Tuscany and Emilia declare for union with Sardinia-Piedmonte; Revolution in Sicily, Garibaldi lands and is victorious; invades Italy and gains victory; enters Naples Piemontese army under Victor Emmanuel take over from Garibaldi; Marche and Umbria vote for annexation to Piedmonte.
	www.arcaini.com /ITALY/italyHistory/ItalianUnification.htm (967 words)

	Western and Central Europe, 1850 to 1900
		And in the far northwest was Piedmont, a part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, a liberal constitutional monarchy, and a haven for Italian nationalists who had been involved in 1848-49 upheavals.
		But the war had given hope to urban masses down the Italian peninsula, who rose up against foreign rule, these Italians going into the streets, chanting "foreigners out of Italy," and chanting for "Victor Emmanuel," the king of Piedmont-Sardinia, whom they wanted as their king.
		In the far north of Italy, in Venetia (including the city of Venice) and Lombardy (including the city of Milan), Austria ruled.
	www.fsmitha.com /h3/h49-bis.htm (967 words)

	A British view of the Crimean War: introduction
		Cavour, the Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia was looking for allies to help him in the creation of the Kingdom of Northern Italy.
		He took Piedmont into the war in 1855 when it was more obvious that the Allies would win.
		Cavour was cold, calculating and Machiavellian in weighing up the situation.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/crimea/intro.html (967 words)

	The Italian Empire
		The Piedmontese kingdom, controlling the island of Sardinia, historical Piedmont, Lombardy, Venetia-Trentino, and the Roman Province, was unquestionably the dominant state in the Italian Empire, as the motor of Italian unification.
		The Italian State Treaty of 1973 transformed the rump Italian Empire into a federation of self-governing regions, some, like Venezia Fruilia-Guilia, adopting republican models of government, others, like Emilia, Lombardy, and Sardinia, became autonomous regions federated with Piedmont.
		Sardinia's eventual secession from North Italy in 1978 only symbolized the extent to which the Italian state had decomposed.
	www.ahtg.net /TpA/italemp.html (967 words)

	La Famiglia Abruzzese: Timelines; Italian Peninsula 3
		Victor Emmanuel II (King of Piedmont and Sardinia) declared the formation of the Kingdom of Italy and became it's king (March 17).
		Piedmontese troops (of Count di Cavour/Kingdom of Sardinia) fought in the Crimean campaign as allies to Britain and France.
		Garibaldi's troops were successful (for the Kingdom of Sardinia) against the professional army of Sicily's kingdom and then turned to the Italian mainland capturing southern Italy and Naples.
	www.cimorelli.com /pie/regions/abruzzo/tlineit3.htm (1557 words)

	Sardinia
		In 1720 the kingdom of Sardinia was ceded to the house of Savoy and was joined to the Piedmont.
		After the collapse of the Napoleonic empire, the kingdom of Sardinia was given back its territories on the mainland, and during the 19th century it expanded to include almost all of Italy.
		Sardinia's rivers, of which the Tirso and Flumendosa are the most important, are short and full of rapids.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Sardinia/Sardinia.html (613 words)

	ECONOMIC HISTORY OF ITALY
		It was the Kingdom of Sardinia which included Genoa and the Piedmont as well as the Island of Sardinia which, with French assistance, defeated the Austrians in 1859 and united Italy in 1861.
		The political leader of the Kingdom of Sardinia was Count Camillo Benso di Cavour.
		It was divided into minor kingdoms many of which were controlled by the Habsburg Empire.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/italy1.htm (621 words)

	Sardinia
		In 1720 the island is under the house of Savoy and Sardinia's history before the 1860 is closely connected with the history of Piedmont.
		The name Sardinia according to ancient legend derives from Sardus, the mythic son of Hercules who landed on the island being a leader of the group of Libyan peoples.
		The new Italian state, to which Sardinia was annexed since 1860, provided regulation of the water courses, intensified excavation works especially on the territory of Sulcis with its carbon fields where the city of Carbonia was founded, construction of the new ways of communications.
	www.italycyberguide.com /Geography/regions/sardinia.htm (1057 words)

	Coins of Victor Emmanuel II
		Vittorio Emanuele II (Victor Emmanuel II) belongs to the House of Savoy, a dynasty that ruled Savoy and Piedmont from the 11th century, 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.
		Italy was governed under the liberal constitution adopted by the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1848.
		On 17 March 1861 the first Italian Parliament, settled in Turin (18 February 1861), proclaimed the Kingdom of Italy with Vittorio Emanuele II as king: the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy was celebrated in 1911 by Vittorio Emanuele III with the "Cinquantenario" series.
	www.ilmarengo.com /italia/regno/vittorioemanuele2en.htm (345 words)

	Timeline Sardinia
		1814 The Kingdom of Sardinia was united with the Kingdom of Liguria.
		1754 The Carouge area of Geneva was ceded to the Kingdom of Sardinia.
		1720 Sardinia was handed over to Piedmont's Savoy Kingdom.
	www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/countries/SARDINIA.HTML (219 words)

	Search Results for piedmont - Encyclopædia Britannica
		kingdom of the house of Savoy from 1720, which was centred on the lands of Piedmont (in northwestern Italy) and Sardinia.
		Savoyard king of Sardinia ( Piedmont -Sardinia) from 1773 to 1796.
		The portion of a plain adjacent to mountain slopes is known as a piedmont.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=piedmont&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (219 words)

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