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• Asinara
  ...om of [[Aragon]]. In [[1721]], it became property of the [[House of Savoy|Savoy]] [[Kingdom of Sardinia]]. In more recent times, the island has been used a
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• Corazzieri
  ...or the wedding of Prince [[Umberto I of Italy|Umberto]] to [[Margherita of Savoy]], a mounted honor guard of 80 Carabinieri was formed, called the ''Squadro
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• Aosta
  ...mano]] of the [[Savoy House]] house. After the creation of the [[county of Savoy]], with its capital in [[Chambery]], Aosta followed its history, as well as Under the Savoy House Aosta was granted a special status that it mantained after the new It
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• Piedmont
  ...manuele Filiberto]] moved the seat to Turin in 1563. In 1720, the Duke of Savoy became King of [[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], founding what evolved into ...ustrian Empire]] in [[1820]]-[[1821]] and [[1848]]-[[1849]]. The House of Savoy became [[Kings of Italy]], and Turin briefly became the capital of Italy.
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• Valle d'Aosta
  ...rovençal]], a regional language that used to be spoken more generally in [[Savoy]], French-speaking Switzerland, [[Lyon]] area and the [[Jura mountains|Jura ...se of Roman rule in the [[5th century]], until it passed to the [[house of Savoy]] in the [[11th century]]. Valle d'Aosta was established as an [[autonomous
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• Aosta Valley
  ...rovençal]], a regional language that used to be spoken more generally in [[Savoy]], French-speaking Switzerland, [[Lyon]] area and the [[Jura mountains|Jura ...se of Roman rule in the [[5th century]], until it passed to the [[house of Savoy]] in the [[11th century]]. Valle d'Aosta was established as an [[autonomous
  7 KB (993 words) - 08:12, 8 October 2009
• Ventimiglia
  ...d sided with their enemies. It was thus temporarily held by the [[dukes of Savoy]] (1389 and 1746) and [[King Ladislas of Naples]] (1410). In general it sha ...stolic]]; Gianfrancesco Gandoflfi (1622), who negotiated the peace between Savoy and Genoa; Antonio Maria Bacigaluppi (1773), who converted the episcopal re
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• Tavolara
  ...Bertoleoni family, recognized as the rulers of Tavolara by the [[House of Savoy|Kings of Sardinia]]. Documents dating to 1767 affirm that Tavolara had neve
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• History of Sardinia
  ...t for territorial convenience the European powers assigned Sardinia to the Savoy and Sicily to [[Emperor Charles VII]]. ...rt to Cagliari: the brief Republic declared tht year, soon thwarted by the Savoy army, was the sole concrete attempt of independence from the Sardinians. Th
  14 KB (2,161 words) - 23:13, 23 September 2009
• Carabinieri
  ...was created by King [[Victor Emmanuel I of Savoy|Victor Emmanuel I]] of [[Savoy]], with the aim of providing [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]] with a police co ...nd of the 18th century and later abandoned it to the [[Kingdom of Piedmont-Savoy]], the corps of ''Carabinieri Reali'' (Royal Carabinieri) was instituted un
  14 KB (1,953 words) - 17:55, 28 February 2009
• Itala
  ...y cloth, the sides are padded and quilted handles and reproduced the eagle Savoy. The price of the chassis alone is estimated between 18,000 and 17,500 poun
  8 KB (1,143 words) - 09:55, 18 November 2011
• Imperia
  ...nter climate. Amongst those who lived on this coast are Queen Margaret of Savoy who lived in Bordighera, [[Alfred Nobel]] who died in Sanremo, the Russian
  6 KB (885 words) - 00:11, 25 February 2009
• Turin, Italy
  ...iancamano]]'s son [[Otto of Savoy|Otto]], by the family of the [[Counts of Savoy]]. While the dignity of count was held by the Bishop as count of Turin (109 At the end of the thirteenth century, when it was annexed to the [[Duchy of Savoy]], the city already had 20,000 inhabitants. Many of the gardens and palaces
  26 KB (3,619 words) - 16:46, 27 February 2009
• Angouleme
  ...and raised it to the rank of [[duchy]] in favour of his mother [[Louise of Savoy]]. The duchy afterwards changed hands several times, one of its holders bei
  6 KB (951 words) - 12:08, 15 November 2005
• Genoa
  ...local republic into a struggle for a unified [[Italy]] under a liberalized Savoy monarchy. In [[1860]], [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]] set out from Genoa with over
  21 KB (3,062 words) - 12:22, 24 June 2009
• Cagliari
  ...e title of kings of the Sardinian kingdom. The Sardinian kingdom comprised Savoy and [[Nice]] (currently in [[France]]), [[Piedmont]] and [[Liguria]], as we
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• Castagna
  In 1905, Castagna creates the legendary "Sparviero" for Queen Margherita of Savoy, on a Fiat 24HP chassis: a magnificent, highly accessorised, white double p ...re-war years, Castagna builds official vehicles for Pope Pious XI, for the Savoy family and members of the establishment of the time, based on Fiat 2800 and
  11 KB (1,750 words) - 10:44, 18 December 2009
• Sanremo
  After the French domination and the [[Savoy]] restoration ([[1814]]), Sanremo was annexed to the [[Kingdom of Sardinia]
  12 KB (1,850 words) - 11:36, 22 March 2009

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