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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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Overview of Naples, capital of Naples province, southern...
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Kingdom of Naples, Former kingdom comprising the southern...
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Kingdom of Naples 1799–1806. Kingdom of Naples 1806–1815. ∟ client state of the First French Empire. Kingdom of Naples 1815–1816. Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 1816–1861. Kingdom of Italy 1861–1946. Italian Republic 1946–present. Map of Parthenope (Palaeopolis) and Neapolis. The history of Naples is long and varied, dating to Greek ...
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In 1734, the city became an autonomous kingdom under Charles of Bourbon. Naples flourished as a European capital. Then, in 1806, the city fell under French rule when Napoleon gave the Kingdom of Naples to his brother Giuseppe Bonaparte.
Maps. Documents. Gallery. Indicators. Historic Centre of Naples. From the Neapolis founded by Greek settlers in 470 B.C. to the city of today, Naples has retained the imprint of the successive cultures that emerged in Europe and the Mediterranean basin.
Mar 28, 2008 · Summary. half the territory of Italy, but far less of its wealth and population, lay within the kingdom of Naples and the papal states, for much of the land – mountain, marsh and arid plain – defied habitation or exploitation. Devastated by plague in the fourteenth century, the population touched its nadir around the start of the fifteenth ...
