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Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia

Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
Regno Lombardo–Veneto (it)
Königreich Lombardo–Venetien (de)
Österreichisches Italien ("Austrian Italy")
Crown land of the Austrian Empire
1815–1866
Flag Coat of arms
1815
Capital Milan and Venice
(1815–1859)
Venice
(1859–1866)
Languages Italian, German
Religion Roman Catholic
Government Absolute monarchy
King
 •  1815–1835 Francis I
 •  1835–1848 Ferdinand I
 •  1848–1866 Francis Joseph I
Viceroy
 •  1815 Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen
 •  1815–1816 Heinrich von Bellegarde
 •  1816–1818 Anton Victor of Austria
 •  1818–1848 Rainer Joseph of Austria
 •  1848–1857 Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
 •  1857–1859 Maximilian of Mexico
History
 •  Congress of Vienna 9 June 1815
 •  Five Days of Milan 22 March 1848
 •  Lombardy ceded to France 10 November 1859
 •  Austro-Prussian War 14 June 1866
 •  Peace of Prague 23 August 1866
 •  Treaty of Vienna 12 October 1866
Area
 •  1852 46,782 km² (18,063 sq mi)
Population
 •  1852 est. 4,671,000 
     Density 99.8 /km²  (258.6 /sq mi)
Currency Lombardy-Venetia pound,
(1816–1860)
Lombardy-Venetia florin
(1860–1866)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)
Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)
Today part of  Italy

The Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (Italian: Regno Lombardo-Veneto, German: Königreich Lombardo–Venetien; Latin: Regnum Langobardiae et Venetiae), commonly called the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, was a constituent land (crown land) of the Austrian Empire. It was created in 1815 by resolution of the Congress of Vienna in recognition of the Austrian House of Habsburg-Lorraine's rights to Lombardy and the former Republic of Venice after the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, proclaimed in 1805, had collapsed. It was finally dissolved in 1866 when its remaining territory fell to the Kingdom of Italy.

In 1814, Treaty of Paris the Austrians had confirmed their claims to the territories of the former Lombard Duchy of Milan, which had been ruled by the Habsburg Monarchy since 1718 and together with the adjacent Duchy of Mantua by the Austrian branch of the dynasty from 1713 to 1796, and of the former Republic of Venice, which had been under Austrian rule intermittently upon the 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio.

The Congress of Vienna combined these lands into a single kingdom, ruled in personal union by the Habsburg Emperor of Austria; as distinct of the neighbouring Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy of Modena and Reggio as well as the Duchy of Parma, which remained independent entities under Habsburg rule. The Austrian emperor was represented day-to-day by viceroys appointed by the Imperial Court in Vienna and resident in Milan and Venice.


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