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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.
Savoy, Piedmont, and Nice were restored to the House of Savoy at the Congress of Vienna in 1814–1815. Under the 1847 Perfect Fusion the duchy was merged with the other parts of the Savoyard state into the unitary Kingdom of Sardinia. Savoy itself would be given to France under the terms of the Treaty of Turin (1860).
The House of Savoy later went on to rule the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1946 when the monarchy was abolished. Victor Amadeus II was the longest reigning monarch of Savoy, followed by Charles Emmanuel I , and Charles III or Amadeus VIII .
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Matilda was the second or third daughter of Amadeus III, Count of Savoy and Maurienne, [1] and Mahaut of Albon [3] [1] (the sister of Guigues IV of Albon, "le Dauphin").One of her aunts, Adelaide of Maurienne, was queen consort as the wife of King Louis VI of France, and one of her great-granduncles was Pope Callixtus II whose papacy lasted from 1119 until 1124, the year of his death.
The Italian States in 1796, Savoy in the Kingdom of Sardinia. In 1792, the French crossed the border once again, this time it was the revolutionaries. A National Assembly of the Allobroges, meeting in Chambéry, called for Savoy to be reunited with France. [35] Annecy, on the other hand, preferred union with Italy.
Infanta Beatrice of Portugal (Portuguese: Beatriz [bi.ɐˈtɾiʃ]; 31 December 1504 – 8 January 1538) was a Portuguese princess by birth and Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Charles III, Duke of Savoy. She was the ruling countess of Asti from 1531 to 1538.
The Savoyard state comprised the states ruled by the counts and dukes of Savoy from the Middle Ages to the formation of the Kingdom of Italy. Although it was an example of composite monarchy, [1] [2] it is a term applied to the polity by historians and was not in contemporary use. At the end of the 17th century, its population was about 1.4 ...