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Kingdom of Naples. Kingdom of Italy. Today part of. Italy, Croatia [a] The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( Italian: Regno delle Due Sicilie) [1] was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of a cadet branch of the Spanish Bourbons. [2]
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, state that united the southern part of the Italian peninsula with the island of Sicily between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries. (For a brief history of the state, see Naples, Kingdom of.) United by the Normans in the 11th century, the two areas were divided in.
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Finally, in 1442, Naples fell to the ruler of Sicily, Alfonso V of Aragon, who in 1443 assumed the title of king of the Two Sicilies —i.e., of Sicily and Naples. The title was retained by his son and grandson, Ferdinand I and Ferdinand II.
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When Ferdinand of Bourbon regained his throne in Naples, he decided to consolidate his holdings and out of the two kingdoms of Naples and Sicily he created the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies on December 18, 1815.
Aug 25, 2016 · Carlo Rainone. By Michael Bucher. August 25, 2016 4:00 AM EDT. A t the Independent Neapolitan Nation’s headquarters in Naples, Italy, there is a statue of the siren Parthenope. The ancient Greek...
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. [4] Nomenclature.
views 2,146,597 updated. KINGDOM OF THE TWO SICILIES. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1734–1860) was the oldest and largest of the Italian states in the nineteenth century, and its collapse in 1860 unexpectedly ensured Italy's political unification.
