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    The history of early modern Italy roughly corresponds to the period from the Renaissance to the Congress of Vienna in 1814. The following period was characterized...
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    The Minister of Religion was Giovanni Bovara. Napoleon I, King of Italy (1805–1814) Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy (1805–1814) Augusto Caffarelli...
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    and elsewhere. In 1559, at the end of the Italian wars between France and the Habsburgs, about half of Italy (the southern Kingdoms of Naples, Sicily, Sardinia...
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    genetic history of Italy includes information around the formation, ethnogenesis, and other DNA-specific information about the inhabitants of Italy. Modern...
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    Council was created in 1559. It handled 1,500 cases from Imperial Italy between 1559 and 1806 (out of 140,000 total), with most of those cases coming from...
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    the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559), France renounced its claims in Italy, while the south of Italy remained under Spanish rule. Much of Venice's hinterland...
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    The Italian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland...
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    Italy has a long history of different coinage types, which spans thousands of years. Italy has been influential at a coinage point of view: the medieval...
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    VIII's invasion of Naples in 1494. However, the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559) saw parts of Italy fall under the direct or indirect control of the Spanish...
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    The history of Islam in Sicily and southern Italy began with Arab colonization in Sicily, at Mazara, which was captured in 827. The subsequent rule of Sicily...
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    use since the abdication of Napoleon I of France on 6 April 1814. Following the unification of most of Italy, tensions between the royalists and republicans...
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    Latin and Italian languages), also referred to as Roman Italy, was the homeland of the ancient Romans. According to Roman mythology, Italy was the ancestral...
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    The history of the Italian Republic concerns the events relating to the history of Italy that have occurred since 1946, when Italy became a republic after...
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    Peace of Cateau Cambrésis ended the Italian Wars in 1559. The kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia, Naples (inclusive of the State of Presidi) and the Duchy of Milan...
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    about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history in Italy. 5th millennium BC - Examples of homosexual eroticism in Upper Paleolithic or Mesolithic...
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    The history of Italy in the Middle Ages can be roughly defined as the time between the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance...
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    The participation of Italy in the Second World War was characterized by a complex framework of ideology, politics, and diplomacy, while its military actions...
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    Prehistoric Italy. Date of the prehistoric era are approximate. For further background, see history of Italy and list of prime ministers of Italy. Millennia:...
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    article Flag of Italy. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flags of Italy. Namely Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians Italy at Flags of the World...
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  • 1797–1802 Italian Republic 1802–1805 Kingdom of Italy 1805–1814 Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia 1815–1859  Kingdom of Sardinia 1859–1861  Kingdom of Italy 1861–1943...
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    This is a history of the economy of Italy. For more information on historical, cultural, demographic and sociological developments in Italy, see the chronological...
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    The history of the Jews in Italy spans more than two thousand years to the present. The Jewish presence in Italy dates to the pre-Christian Roman period...
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    Shaw, The Italian Wars, 1494-1559, (Pearson Educational Limited, 2012), 154. Michael Mallett and Christine Shaw, The Italian Wars, 1494-1559, 230-231....
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    The etymology of the name of Italy has been the subject of reconstructions by linguists and historians. Considerations extraneous to the specifically linguistic...
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    armies of King Philip II of Spain defeated those of Pope Paul IV in the Italian War of 1551–1559 fought to prevent growing Spanish dominance in Italy. This...
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    few months of leaving Italy, in June 1831, Mazzini wrote a letter to King Charles Albert of Sardinia, in which he asked him to unite Italy and lead the...
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    The Italian railway system is one of the most important parts of the infrastructure of Italy, with a total length of 24,227 km (15,054 mi) as of 2011....
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    introduction to the postal and philatelic history of Italy. As Italy was not unified until 1861, its early postal history is tied to the various kingdoms and...
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    (1494–1559) History of early modern Italy Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Italian unification (1814 –1861)...
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  • ARMIES, NAVIES AND THE ART OF WAR J. R. Hale 8 THE BRITISH QUESTION 1559-69 R. B. Wernham 9 WESTERN EUROPE AND THE POWER OF SPAIN H. G. Koenigsberger 10...
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