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1 day ago · The French novelist Henri de Stendhal, who visited Naples in 1817, called the kingdom "an absurd monarchy in the style of Philip II". [27] As open political activity was suppressed, liberals organized themselves in secret societies, such as the Carbonari , an organization whose origins date back into the French period and which had been ...
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The Army of the Kingdom of Naples, active during the French...
- Ferdinand II
Family. Ferdinand was born in Palermo to King Francis I of...
- Monarchs of The Two Sicilies
History. Joachim Murat was the first king to rule a kingdom...
- Expedition of The Thousand
The Expedition of the Thousand (Italian: Spedizione dei...
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4 hours ago · The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich), also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
4 hours ago · The succession crisis of 1580, initiated a sixty-year period of dual monarchy in Portugal and Spain under the Spanish Habsburgs. This is referred to as the "Philippine Dominion" (Domínio Filipino), since all three Spanish kings during that period were called Philip (Filipe).
4 hours ago · Belgium is a constitutional, popular monarchy and a federal parliamentary democracy. The bicameral federal parliament is composed of a Senate and a Chamber of Representatives . The former is made up of 50 senators appointed by the parliaments of the communities and regions and 10 co-opted senators .
4 hours ago · In October 1971, Mohammad Reza celebrated the twenty-five-hundredth anniversary of the Iranian monarchy; The New York Times reported that $100 million was spent on the celebration. Next to the ancient ruins of Persepolis , the Shah gave orders to build a tent city covering 160 acres (0.65 km 2 ), studded with three huge royal tents and fifty ...
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1 day ago · Royal Standard of the Kingdom of Laos. The Lao People's Democratic Republic is the modern state derived from the final Kingdom of Laos.The political source of Lao history and cultural identity is the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang, which during its apogee emerged as one of the largest kingdoms in Southeast Asia.
1 day ago · Etymology and pronunciation The previously separate towns of Buda, Óbuda, and Pest were officially unified in 1873 and given the new name Budapest. Before this, the towns together had sometimes been referred to colloquially as "Pest-Buda". Pest is used pars pro toto for the entire city in contemporary colloquial Hungarian. All varieties of English pronounce the -s- as in the English word pest ...