Kingdom of Illyria | ||||||||||||||
Königreich Illyrien (de) Ilirsko kraljestvo (sl) Regno d'Illiria (it) Kraljevina Ilirija (hr) |
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Crown land of Austria | ||||||||||||||
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Kingdom of Illyria within the Austrian Empire (1822-1849)
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Capital | Ljubljana | |||||||||||||
Languages |
Italian, Slovene, Croatian, German |
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Religion | Roman Catholic | |||||||||||||
Government | Monarchy | |||||||||||||
King | ||||||||||||||
• | 1816–1835 | Francis I | ||||||||||||
• | 1835–1848 | Ferdinand I | ||||||||||||
• | 1848–1849 | Francis Joseph I | ||||||||||||
Historical era | Modern history | |||||||||||||
• | Congress of Vienna | 3 August 1816 | ||||||||||||
• | Revolution of 1848 | 8 December 1849 | ||||||||||||
Currency | Thaler | |||||||||||||
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Today part of |
Austria Croatia Italy Slovenia |
The Kingdom of Illyria was a crown land of the Austrian Empire from 1816 to 1849, the successor state of the Napoleonic Illyrian Provinces, reconquered by Austria in the War of the Sixth Coalition and restored according to the Final Act of the Vienna Congress. Its administrative centre was in Ljubljana (officially German: Laibach)
Upon the Revolutions of 1848, the kingdom was dissolved and split into the Austrian crown lands of Carniola, Carinthia and the Austrian Littoral.
The French Illyrian Provinces had comprised Carniola and western ("Upper") Carinthia as well as the Adriatic territories of Gorizia and Gradisca, Trieste and the Istrian peninsula. They had also included the Dalmatian coast and the lands of the Kingdom of Croatia south of the Sava River. Parts of the territories on the Adriatic Sea had been annexed by the Habsburg Monarchy from Venice in the 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio. Upon the dissolution of the Provinces, the Austrian government split-off Dalmatia and merged the eastern ("Lower") part of Carinthia into what was to become the Kingdom of Illyria.