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	Victor Emmanuel III of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Victor Emmanuel III (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele III) (November 11, 1869 – December 28, 1947), nicknamed "The soldier king", was the King of Italy (July 29, 1900 – May 9, 1946), and claimed the titles Emperor of Ethiopia (1936 - 1943) and King of Albania (1939 - 1943).
		Victor Emmanuel III's position as Emperor of Ethiopia was not universally accepted, as Italy had overthrown the native Emperor, Haile Selassie.
		Defenders of Victor Emmanuel have suggested that his decision not to oppose Mussolini's rise to power was based on the consideration of the economical damages caused by the constant collapsing of earlier governments, Mussolini offering a stability that the Italian Kingdom craved.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Victor_Emmanuel_III_of_Italy (1150 words)

	Victor Emmanuel II on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Plebiscites in Naples and Sicily and in the Marches and Umbria (two provinces of the Papal States) favored union with Sardinia, and in 1861 the kingdom of Italy was proclaimed with Victor Emmanuel as king.
		Siding (1866) with Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War, Victor Emmanuel was awarded Venetia in the peace settlement.
		The remainder of Victor Emmanuel's reign was spent in the consolidation of the new kingdom.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/VictorE1m2.asp (721 words)

	Encyclopedia: Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (11 November, 1869 â€“ 28 December, 1947), was the King of Italy (29 July, 1900 â€“ 9 May, 1946), and claimed the titles Emperor of Ethiopia (1936 - 1943) and King of Albania (1939 - 1943).
		Victor Emmanuel, prince of Naples (Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amedeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria de Savoie), born February 12, 1937) is the head of the house of Savoy.
		The monument of Victor Emmanuel II Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II (Monument of Victor Emmanuel II) or Altare della Patria (Altar of the Nation) or Il Vittoriano is a monument located in Rome, Italy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Victor-Emmanuel-II-of-Italy (1725 words)

	Victor Emmanuel II of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victor Emmanuel II (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; March 14, 1820 – January 9, 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia from 1849–1861.
		Charles Albert abdicated and Victor Emmanuel became king of Sardinia–Piedmont on March 24, 1849.
		Victor Emmanuel would keep the former ordinal number though he became the first king of Italy, in order to maintain the dynastical continuity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_II_of_Italy (297 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Victor Emmanuel II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Victor Emmanuel II (1820-78), king of Sardinia (1849-61) and king of Italy (1861-78), born on March 14, 1820, in Turin.
		On March 17, 1861, the kingdom of Italy was proclaimed, with Victor Emmanuel II as king and Cavour as prime minister.
		Humbert II : accession to the throne of Italy: Victor Emmanuel III
	encarta.msn.com /Victor_Emmanuel_II.html (188 words)

	Umberto II of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Umberto II, occasionally anglicized as Humbert II, (September 15, 1904 - March 18, 1983), the last King of Italy, nicknamed the King of May (Italian: Re di Maggio), was born the Prince of Piedmont.
		Following the overthrow of Benito Mussolini in 1943, King Victor Emmanuel handed over his constitutional functions to Umberto, who was made Lieutenant General of the Realm, and left Italy for Egypt.
		Had Victor Emmanuel III handed over the throne in 1943, it is likely that the monarchy would have won the 1946 referendum on its survival.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Humbert_II_of_Italy (960 words)

	Umberto I of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The son of Vittorio Emanuele II and of Adelaide, archduchess of Austria, Humbert was born in Turin, then capital of the kingdom of Sardinia, on March 14, 1844.
		Their sons were Victor Emmanuel, prince of Naples; and Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.
		Ascending the throne on the death of his father (January 9, 1878), Humbert adopted the title "Humbert I of Italy" rather than "Humbert IV" (of Savoy), and consented that the remains of his father should be interred at Rome in the Pantheon, and not in the royal mausoleum of.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Umberto_I_of_Italy (788 words)

	Articles - Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Victor Emmanuel was born February 12, 1937 in Naples to Umberto II, the last king of Italy and princess Marie JosÃ© of Belgium.
		Victor Emmanuel and his family currently reside in Geneva, Switzerland, where the office of the head of the house of Savoy is situated.
		In Naples, where Victor Emmanuel was born, and from where his family sailed into exile in 1946, noisy demonstrations were staged by two traditionally opposing factions: anti-monarchists on one hand, and supporters of the Bourbon kings of Naples, whose family was deposed when Italy was united in 1861 under the house of Savoy.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Victor_Emmanuel,_Prince_of_Naples?mySession=198c767a5990653ddb8ee08a82cd21a5 (1552 words)

	KING HUMBERT - LoveToKnow Article on KING HUMBERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the 11th of November 1869 Margherita gave birth to Victor Emmanuel, prince of Naples, afterwards Victor Emmanuel III.
		Compared with the reigns of his grandfather, Charles Albert, and of his father, Victor Emmanuel, the reign of Humbert was tranquil.
		He was buried in the Pantheon in Rome, by the side of Victor Emmanuel II., on the 9th of August 1900.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HU/HUMBERT_KING.htm (830 words)

	AllRefer.com - house of Savoy : The Kingdom of Italy (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Humbert I, who succeeded (1878) Victor Emmanuel II as king of Italy, was assassinated in 1900.
		A younger son of Victor Emmanuel II, Amadeus, was given the title duke of Aosta; he was king of Spain from 1870 to 1873.
		• Aosta, Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, duke of
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Savoy-ho-the-kingdom-of-italy.html (216 words)

	Victor Emmanuel II
		Savoy, house of: The Kingdom of Italy - The Kingdom of Italy In Charles Albert's reign the house of Savoy became the center of the...
		Humbert I - Humbert I, 1844–1900, king of Italy (1878–1900), son and successor of Victor Emmanuel...
		Amadeus - Amadeus, 1845–90, king of Spain (1870–73), duke of Aosta, son of Victor Emmanuel II of...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0850810.html (435 words)

	Victor Emmanuel, II Biography / Biography of Victor Emmanuel, II Biography Biography
		Victor Emmanuel II (1820-1878) was king of Sardinia from 1849 to 1861 and then the first king of Italy until 1878.
		The son of Charles Albert, Prince of Savoy-Carignano, Victor Emmanuel was born at Turin on March 14, 1820.
		During the War of 1848 with Austria, Victor Emmanuel fought courageously at the head of a division.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-victor-emmanuel-ii/index.html (254 words)

	David I. Kertzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1870, Victor Emmanuel II, king of a newly united Italy, sought an agreement with Pius IX in which the pope would rule the Tiber's right bank while the king would govern the left bank.
		Victor Emmanuel was afraid of the pope and did not want to be in Rome when the pope was there.
		Barrel-chested, sporting a handlebar mustache and a furry patch of beard on his chin and intimidating those around him with his bluster, Victor Emmanuel II came from a lineage that was related by marriage and descent to all of the kings and dukes in Italy he had overthrown.
	www.davidkertzer.com /books_pov_b.htm (4903 words)

	Piedmont-Sardinia Two Sicilies War 1860
		At this point, without the consent of Victor Emmanuel II and perhaps even against his wishes, Garibaldi crossed the Straits of Messina on Aug. 19, 1860, and by September 7 made a triumphant entry into Naples.
		Francis II fled to Gaeta, and on October 1 the last serious resistance of the Bourbon army was overcome at the battle of the Volturno near Caserta.
		On Oct. 26, 1860, Victor Emmanuel II met with Garibaldi on Neapolitan soil and was greeted as "king of Italy." During October and November, plebiscites in the former papal and Bourbon provinces overwhelmingly endorsed annexation to the Kingdom of Italy.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/tango/thethousand1860.htm (1013 words)

	Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Victor Emmanuel II (in Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II) (March 14 1820 - January 9 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia 1849 - 1861, and King of Italy 1861 - 1878.
		Rosa Theresa Vercellona Guerrieri (nicknamed La Rosina) was once Victor Emmanuel's mistress.
		The Count of Mirafiori and Fontanafredda was probably their (illegitimate) son.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/v/vi/victor_emmanuel_ii_of_italy.html (115 words)

	VICTOR EMMANUEL II. - LoveToKnow Article on VICTOR EMMANUEL II. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1842 he was married to Adelaide, daughter of the Austrian Archduke Rainer, as the king desired at that time to improve his relations with Austria.
		The young couple led a somewhat dreary life, hidebound by court etiquette, which Victor Emmanuel hated.
		This same year, Cavour (q.v.) was appointed minister of agriculture in D'Azeglio's cabinet, and in 1852, after the fall of the latter, he became prime minister, a post which with brief interruptions he held until his death.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VI/VICTOR_EMMANUEL_II_.htm (418 words)

	Victor Emmanuel II of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Victor Emmanuel II (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; March 14, 1820 – January 9, 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia from 1849–1861.
		Charles Albert went to war in 1848 against the Austrian Empire (which ruled most of northern Italy), but was defeated at the the following year.
		Under his command, and with the skillful action of his minister, Count Cavour, the Kingdom of Sadinia grew to include whole Italy (1860 – 1870), and thus Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy became Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Victor_Emmanuel_II_of_Italy (311 words)

	HarpWeek: Cartoon of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Italian kingdom of Sardinia, though, Victor Emmanuel II was elevated to the throne in 1849, and he oversaw the development of parliamentary government, economic reforms, military reorganization, and the sale of properties owned by the Roman Catholic Church.
		In this cartoon, bordered in funereal fl, Italia, the female symbol of Italy, mourns the death of King Victor Emmanuel.
		It recognizes the separation of church and state enacted when Victor Emmanuel came to power in Italy, and it reflects Nast's intense opposition to the Roman Catholic Church.
	www.harpweek.com /09Cartoon/RelatedCartoon.asp?Month=February&Date=2 (474 words)

	AllRefer.com - Victor Emmanuel II (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Victor Emmanuel II 1820–78, king of Sardinia (1849–61) and first king of united Italy (1861–78).
		He fought in the war of 1848–49 against Austrian rule in Lombardy-Venetia and ascended the throne when his father, Charles Albert, abdicated after the defeat at Novara.
		After the battle of Solferino, France signed a separate armistice with Austria at Villafranca di Verona; Victor Emmanuel was not consulted, but the terms were ratified in the Treaty of ZUrich.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/VictorEm2.html (484 words)

	Lecture 24: Unification of Italy and Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cavour wanted to place Victor Emmanuel II as the king of North Italy (he was already king of a section of Northern Italy called Sardinia-Piedmont—he rules there from 1849-1861).
		Victor Emmanuel II is proclaimed king of Italy in 1861.
		Alexander II was the new czar of Russia.
	www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us /maplewoods/socsci/westciv/stock/wc2/lectures/24.htm (1400 words)

	Victor Emmanuel
		Victor Emmanuel, the son of King Umberto I, was born in Naples, Italy, in 1869.
		Victor Emmanuel abdicated in May 1946, but his son was rejected in a referendum and Italy became a republic.
		Victor Emmanuel III died in exile in Egypt in 1947.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWvictor.htm (291 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty--Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Following the speech from the throne at the beginning ofthe year by Vittorio Emanuele II on the support of Piedmont for Italians with nationalisticaspirations, Austria, having failed in her request for the disarmament of Piedmont, declared waron the Kingdom of Sardinia.
		Victor Emmanuel II (1820-78), King of Sardinia (1849-61), was the first king of a united Italy (1861-78).
		Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947) was the grandson of Victor Emmanuel II.
	www.histclo.hispeed.com /royal/ita/royal-it.htm (3010 words)

	Timeline Sardinia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		1759 Jul 24, Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21), was born.
		1820 Mar 14, Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), was born.
		She was chosen by her cousin Camillo Cavour, prime minister of Sardinia under King Victor Emanuel, to win the emperor’s support for a war against the Austrians.
	timelines.ws /countries/SARDINIA.HTML (219 words)

	Victor Emmanuel II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Victor Emanuel II VICTOR EMMANUEL II (1820-1878) First king (1861-1878) of united Italy and last king of Piedmont-Sardinia (1849-1861).
		Victor Emmanuel succeeded his father Charles Albert to the throne of Piedmont-Sardinia on March 24, 1849, following the abdication of Charles Albert after two humiliating defeats (1848 and 1849) by Austria.
		Under the guidance of two able prime ministers Massimo d'Azeglio and then Camillo Benso di Cavour, both veterans of the 1848-49 turmoils, Victor Emmanuel successfully met various crises in the early years of his reign.
	www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/rz/victorem.htm (350 words)

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