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  2. Grand Duchy of Tuscany - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Italian: Granducato di Toscana; Latin: Magnus Ducatus Etruriae) was an Italian monarchy that existed, with interruptions, from 1569 to 1860, replacing the Republic of Florence. [2] The grand duchy's capital was Florence. In the 19th century the population of the Grand Duchy was about 1,815,000 inhabitants. [3]

  3. Grand Duchy of Tuscany–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Duchy recognized the United States in 1794 when it received the first U.S. consular agent to serve within the grand duchy, Philip Felicchi who was stationed at Livorno from May 24, 1794, to December 7, 1796. Despite giving recognition to the U.S., the Duchy refused to recognize American consular agents posted in Florence.

  4. Grand duchy - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1569–1860, part of Italy afterwards). The term "grand duchy" is of relatively late invention, used at first in Western Europe in 1569 in the case of Tuscany, to denote either territories of a particularly mighty duke or territories of significant importance in political, economical or military matters without being of sufficient size or importance to be recognized ...

  5. United Provinces of Central Italy - Wikipedia

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    It was formed by a union of the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy of Parma, the Duchy of Modena, and the Papal Legations, after the Second Italian War of Independence. After August 1859, the pro-Piedmontese regimes of Tuscany, Parma, Modena and the Papal Legations agreed to several military treaties.

  6. Duchy of Tuscany - Wikipedia

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    Duchy of Tuscany may refer to the following central Italian territories: Tuscia, historical region in Central Italy; Duchy of Tuscia (576–797), Lombard duchy; March of Tuscany (812–1197), frontier march of the Holy Roman Empire; Duchy of Florence (1532–1569) Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1569–1859)

  7. Italy and the colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    An aborted attempt to create a colony in the Americas, in what is now French Guiana, made by the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in the early 1600s. An attempt to create a colony in the Antilles by an Italian Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of Malta (then part of Sicily).

  8. Tuscany - Wikipedia

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    The Duchy comprised most of the present area of Tuscany, and its capital was Florence. In December 1859, the Grand Duchy officially ceased to exist, being joined to the duchies of Modena and Parma to form the United Provinces of Central Italy, which was annexed by the Kingdom of Sardinia a few months later in March 1860. In 1862 it became part ...

  9. Category:Grand Duchy of Tuscany - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1569−1859) — located in the Tuscany region of the Italian Peninsula. A former grand duchy of the Holy Roman Empire . The main article for this category is Grand Duchy of Tuscany .