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Ligurian Republic

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noun

  1. the republic in NW Italy set up by Napoleon in 1797, incorporated into France in 1805, and united with the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1814.


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Genoa was also transformed into the Ligurian Republic.

From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Myers, Philip Van Ness

On May 26, Napoleon was crowned King of Italy in the cathedral of Milan, and the Ligurian Republic became part of the French empire in the following month.

From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by Brodrick, George C. (George Charles)

The Piedmontese themselves are on the verge of an irreparable quarrel,—the men of Savoy and the north for Monarchy; the Genoese, wild with their own ancient ideas of a Ligurian Republic.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

The conquest of Constantinople by the Turks, followed rapidly by the expulsion of the Genoese from Trebizond, Sinope, Kaffa, and Azov, was the end of the commercial prosperity of the Ligurian Republic in the East.

From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Lane-Poole, Stanley

On 4th June he annexed outright the Genoese or Ligurian Republic.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland