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  2. List of historical states of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Political map of Italy in the year 1843. Following the defeat of Napoleon's France, the Congress of Vienna (1815) was convened to redraw the European continent. In Italy, the Congress restored the pre-Napoleonic patchwork of independent governments, either directly ruled or strongly influenced by the prevailing European powers, particularly ...

  3. Italian city-states - Wikipedia

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    The Italian city-states were numerous political and independent territorial entities that existed in the Italian Peninsula from antiquity to the formation of the Kingdom of Italy in the late 19th century. The ancient Italian city-states were Etruscan (Dodecapolis), Latin, most famously Rome, and Greek (Magna Graecia), but also of Umbrian ...

  4. Italian Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    Italy became the recognized European leader in all these areas by the late 15th century, during the era of the Peace of Lodi (1454–1494) agreed between Italian states. The Italian Renaissance peaked in the mid-16th century as domestic disputes and foreign invasions plunged the region into the turmoil of the Italian Wars (1494–1559).

  5. File:Map of Italy (1494)-en.svg - Wikipedia

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    This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Map_of_Italy_(1494)-it.svg licensed with PD-self, PD-user . 2009-04-11T16:38:29Z Rhegion 3245x3948 (549260 Bytes) aggiunta Reggio

  6. List of towns in Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    The following is an incomplete list of urban settlements, towns, new towns (satellite towns) in Hong Kong.. While the Government of Hong Kong is unitary and Hong Kong law does not define cities and towns as subsidiary administrative units, the geographical limits of the City of Victoria, Kowloon and New Kowloon are defined in law.

  7. History of early modern Italy - Wikipedia

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    That fall, the Roman Republic also collapsed and the French were by now virtually cleared from Italy. Political map of Italy in the years around 1810. After seizing power as consul in France, Napoleon launched a renewed invasion of Italy. Milan fell on June 2, 1800 and Austrian defeats there and in Germany ended the War of the Second Coalition.

  8. List of cities in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Map of Italy and some of its major cities. The following is a list of Italian municipalities with a population over 50,000. The table below contains the cities populations as of 31 December 2021, [1] as estimated by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, [2] and the cities census population from the 2011 Italian Census. [3] Cities in ...

  9. Cinquecento - Wikipedia

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    The cultural and artistic events of Italy during the period 1500 to 1599 are collectively referred to as the Cinquecento (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ ŋ k w ɪ ˈ tʃ ɛ n t oʊ /, [1] [2] [3] Italian: [ˌtʃiŋkweˈtʃɛnto]), from the Italian for the number 500, in turn from millecinquecento, which is Italian for the year 1500.