Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
The Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (Latin: Regnum Langobardiae et Venetiae), commonly called the "Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom" (Italian: Regno Lombardo-Veneto; German: Königreich Lombardo-Venetien), was a constituent land (crown land) of the Austrian Empire from 1815 to 1866. It was created in 1815 by resolution of the Congress of Vienna in recognition of the Austrian House of Habsburg-Lorraine's rights to the former Duchy of Milan and the former Republic of Venice after the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, proclaimed in 1805, had collapsed.
Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia | |||||||||||||
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| Motto: A.E.I.O.U. (Motto for the House of Habsburg) "All the world is subject to Austria" | |||||||||||||
| Anthem: Inno Patriottico "The Patriotic Song" | |||||||||||||
The Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (green) and the Austrian Empire (light green) in 1815 | |||||||||||||
| Status | Crown land of the Austrian Empire | ||||||||||||
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| Common languages | Lombard, Venetian, Friulian, Italian, and German | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||||||||||
| Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||||||||
| King | |||||||||||||
• 1815–1835 | Francis I | ||||||||||||
• 1835–1848 | Ferdinand I | ||||||||||||
• 1848–1866 | Francis Joseph I | ||||||||||||
| Viceroy | |||||||||||||
• 1815 | Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen | ||||||||||||
• 1815–1816 | Heinrich von Bellegarde | ||||||||||||
• 1816–1818 | Anton Victor of Austria | ||||||||||||
• 1818–1848 | Rainer Joseph of Austria | ||||||||||||
• 1848–1857 | Joseph Radetzky von Radetz | ||||||||||||
• 1857–1859 | Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| 9 June 1815 | |||||||||||||
| 22 March 1848 | |||||||||||||
• Lombardy ceded to France | 10 November 1859 | ||||||||||||
| 14 June 1866 | |||||||||||||
• Peace of Prague | 23 August 1866 | ||||||||||||
• Treaty of Vienna | 12 October 1866 | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
| 1852 | 46,782 km2 (18,063 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• 1852 | 4,671,000 | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Italy | ||||||||||||
The kingdom would cease to exist within the next fifty years—the region of Lombardy was ceded to France in 1859 after the Second Italian War of Independence, which then immediately ceded it to the Kingdom of Sardinia. Lombardy-Venetia was finally dissolved in 1866 when its remaining territory was incorporated into the recently proclaimed Kingdom of Italy following the kingdom's victory against Austria in the Third Italian War of Independence.