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Naples has had other flags in the past, including flags of the Kingdom of Naples. After Naples was united with Sicily in 1442, the flag used the colours of Aragon. Starting in 1735, the flag of the Kingdom of Naples was green and white. [1] When Naples was part of the Parthenopaean Republic (1799), the flag had 3 vertical zones, blue, yellow ...
Flag changed after Alfonso I of the House of Trastámara became King. The kingdom adopted the flag of the Spanish Empire when the Habsburg Charles V became King of Naples in 1516. 1714–1734
1st Flag of The Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples: A Horizontal Tricolour of White, Red and Black 1808–1811 2nd Flag of The Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples A composition formed by a white diamond, in turn included in a red and black box, with the coat of arms in the center. 1811–1815 3rd Flag of The Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples
Alfonso V and the Duchy of Milan agreed to mutual support for the Treaty of Milan, in the demand for the throne of Naples and in the dispute against the Sforza and the Papacy. Alfonso was released in October. [9] Milan's change of alliances revolted the Genoese at Christmas 1435, killing the Milanese governor. [10]
Ferdinand I (2 June 1424 – 25 January 1494), also known as Ferrante, [1] was king of Naples from 1458 to 1494.. The only son, albeit illegitimate, of Alfonso the Magnanimous, he was one of the most influential and feared monarchs in Europe at the time and an important figure of the Italian Renaissance.
Before that he had been, since 1759, King of Naples as Ferdinand IV and King of Sicily as Ferdinand III. He was deposed twice from the throne of Naples: once by the revolutionary Parthenopean Republic for six months in 1799, and again by a French invasion in 1806, before being restored in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
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King Robert was nicknamed "the peace-maker of Italy" due to the years of significant changes he brought to Naples. The city and nation's economy lay in the hands of Tuscan merchants, who erected superb buildings, monuments and statues that drastically changed King Robert's capital from a dirty seaport to a city of elegance and medieval splendor.