Ligurian Republic
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On 4th June he annexed outright the Genoese or Ligurian Republic.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
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 Charles James Lever
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 Stanley Lane-Poole
In June of the same year, in response to a petition which Napoleon himself had instigated, the Ligurian Republic was proclaimed an integral part of the French empire.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
For this purpose he had recommended, and the Government had ordered, a blockade of all Genoese ports including Spezia; Genoa, now the Ligurian Republic, being considered as much France as Toulon.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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