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Italy. Kingdom of Naples, state covering the southern portion of the Italian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to 1860. It was often united politically with Sicily. By the early 12th century the Normans had carved out a state in southern Italy and Sicily in areas formerly held by the Byzantines, Lombards, and Muslims.
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In 1816, Naples formally unified with the island of Sicily to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The territory of the Kingdom of Naples corresponded to the current Italian regions of Campania, Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Abruzzo, Molise, and also included some areas of today's southern and eastern Lazio.
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Naples in southern Italy and the adjacent island of Sicily have large swathes of shared history dating back over two thousand years, but the first known signs of settlement around Naples go back even further, to the second millennium BC.
The Kingdom was founded in 1130 by Roger II, belonging to the Siculo-Norman family of Hauteville. During this period, Sicily was prosperous and politically powerful, becoming one of the wealthiest states in all of Europe. [1] As a result of the dynastic succession, the Kingdom passed into the hands of the Hohenstaufen.
In the 1720 Treaty of The Hague, the Emperor and Savoy exchanged Sicily for Sardinia, thus reuniting Naples and Sicily. History 1816–1848 Framed antique flag of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (c. 1830s) discovered in Palermo
Alfonso I conquered Naples after his victory against the last Angevin king, René, and Naples was unified with Sicily again for a brief period. Masaniello the Revolutionary Sicily and Naples were separated in 1458 but remained as dependencies of Aragon under Ferrante.
The king and his court fled to Sicily on Admiral Horatio Nelson 's warship, while a French army established a republic in Naples in January 1799.
