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Pages in category "Former capitals of Italy" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... 7 languages ...
Italian Republic: Italy: 1802 1805 Became the Kingdom of Italy: Salò: Italian Social Republic: Italy: 1943 1945 Republic ceased to exist Milan: Italy, Kingdom of (Napoleonic) Italy: 1805 1814 Kingdom ceased to exist Turin: Italy, Kingdom of (Sardinian) Italy: 1861 1865 moved to Florence: Florence: Italy, Kingdom of (Sardinian) Italy: 1865 1871 ...
From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy [10] due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.
Ravenna (/ r ə ˈ v ɛ n ə / rə-VEN-ə; Italian:, also local pronunciation: [raˈvɛn(n)a] ⓘ; Romagnol: Ravèna, Ravêna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire during the 5th century until its collapse in 476, after which it served ...
Turin (/ tj ʊəˈr ɪ n, ˈ tj ʊər ɪ n / ture-IN, TURE-in, [3] Piedmontese: ⓘ; Italian: Torino ⓘ; Latin: Augusta Taurinorum, then Taurinum) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865.
The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia [ˈreɲɲo diˈtaːlja]) was a unitary state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.
Rome is the national capital of Italy and is the seat of the Italian Government. The official residences of the President of the Italian Republic and the Italian Prime Minister, the seats of both houses of the Italian Parliament and that of the Italian Constitutional Court are located in the historic centre.
Niccolò Tommaseo, the editor of the Italian Language Dictionary in eight volumes, was a precursor of the Italian irredentism and his works are a rare examples of a metropolitan culture above nationalism; he supported the liberal revolution headed by Daniele Manin against the Austrian Empire and he will always support the unification of Italy.