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Savoyards were mobilized during the First World War, from 1914 to 1918.On August 28, 1914, the Savoy prefecture received a message from the military governor of the 14th region stating: "For diplomatic reasons, please postpone the organization of hospitalization of wounded soldiers in the neutralized Savoy zone", followed three days later by a new dispatch stating: "Hospitalization of wounded ...
The Treaty of Turin (Italian: Trattato di Torino; French: Traité de Turin) concluded between France and Piedmont-Sardinia on 24 March 1860 is the instrument by which the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice were annexed to France, ending the centuries-old Italian rule of the region.
Savoy (/ s ə ˈ v ɔɪ /; [2] French: Savoie ⓘ) [n 1] is a cultural-historical region in the Western Alps.Situated on the cultural boundary between Occitania and Piedmont, the area extends from Lake Geneva in the north to the Dauphiné in the south and west and to the Aosta Valley in the east.
Louis of Savoy (Italian: Ludovico; 1436–37 ; April 1482), Count of Geneva from 1460, became King of Cyprus in 1459 upon his second marriage to Charlotte of Cyprus, reigning together with and in the right of his wife until 1464.
The House of Savoy (Italian: Casa Savoia) is an Italian royal house (formally a dynasty) that was established in 1003 in the historical Savoy region.
Louis was born at Geneva the son of Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy and Mary of Burgundy; [1] he was the first to hold the title of Prince of Piedmont.On 1 November 1433 (or 12 February 1434), at Chambéry, he married Princess Anne of Cyprus, [1] an heiress of the Kingdom of Cyprus and the defunct Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Louis I (1249/50 – 1302) was the Baron of Vaud.At the time of his birth he was a younger son of the House of Savoy, but through a series of deaths and his own effective military service, he succeeded in creating a semi-independent principality in the pays de Vaud by 1286.
Between 1314 and 1322, Louis led several campaigns against the Dauphiné, a traditional rival of Savoy. In 1322 his uncle and suzerain, Amadeus V, Count of Savoy, appointed him lieutenant-general of the Canavese, south of the Alps, and in 1330 he made him a member of the Council of Savoy, the highest organ of state in Savoy. [4]