Campo Formio

American  

[kahm-paw fawr-myaw] / ˈkɑm pɔ ˈfɔr myɔ /

noun

1. a village in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in NE Italy, NW of Trieste: treaty between Austria and France 1797.

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Campo Formio British  

/ ˈkampo ˈfɔrmjo /

noun

1. Modern name: Campoformido.  a village in NE Italy, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia: scene of the signing of a treaty in 1797 that ended the war between revolutionary France and Austria

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Example Sentences

According to the terms of the peace of Campo Formio, the Republic was divided between France and Austria and the Ionian isles went to France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cobenzel later negotiated with Napoleon, then only a general, in his apartments at Campo Formio, for peace between Austria and France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Austria has concluded four treaties with me within the last twelve years, but I must confess that this is the most advantageous to us—more so than the treaties of Campo Formio, Luneville, and Presburg.

From Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by Jordan, F.

During the years succeeding the peace of Campo Formio a revolution was effected in Germany.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

He conquered Lombardy and Tuscany, and forced the Emperor to let them become republics under French protection, also to resign Flanders to France by the Treaty of Campo Formio.

From History of France by Green, J.R.