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The Kingdom of Sardinia, [nb 1] also referred to as the Kingdom of Sardinia - Piedmont, [12][13] Sardegna and Corsica or Piedmont–Sardinia as a composite state during the Savoyard period, was a country in Southern Europe from the late 13th until the mid-19th century; officially 1297 to 1768 for the Corsican part of this kingdom. [14]
- Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)
The Kingdom of Sardinia denotes the Savoyard state from 1720...
- Savoyard state
"Piedmont", "Savoy-Piedmont" and "Piedmont-Sardinia" are...
- History of Sardinia
The Iberian Kingdom was to last until 1718, when it was...
- Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)
Królestwo Sardynii – państwo historyczne istniejące od średniowiecza, od 1720 pod rządami dynastii sabaudzkiej, w 1743 połączone z Księstwem Sabaudii-Piemontu.
The Kingdom of Sardinia denotes the Savoyard state from 1720 until 1861, which united the island of Sardinia with the mainland possessions of the House of Savoy.
It borders the Liguria region to the south, the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions to the east, and the Aosta Valley region to the northwest. Piedmont also borders Switzerland to the north and France to the west. Piedmont has an area of 25,402 km 2 (9,808 sq mi), making it the second-largest region of Italy after Sicily.
"Piedmont", "Savoy-Piedmont" and "Piedmont-Sardinia" are also sometimes used to emphasise that the economic and political centre of the Savoyard state was the Piedmont since the late Middle Ages. The seat of the rulers was in Turin .
The Piedmontese Republic (Italian: Repubblica Piemontese) was a revolutionary, provisional and internationally unrecognized government established in Turin between 1798 and 1799 on the territory of Piedmont during its military rule by the French First Republic.
The Iberian Kingdom was to last until 1718, when it was ceded to the House of Savoy; from Piedmont, the Savoyards pursued a policy of expansion to the rest of the Italian peninsula, having their Kingdom of Sardinia be later renamed into "Kingdom of Italy" in 1861.
