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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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The government as restored by Andrea Doria, with certain modifications tending to impart to it a more conservative character, remained unchanged until the outbreak of the French Revolution and the creation of the Ligurian republic.

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The title was re-established in 1802 for the Ligurian Republic, but was abolished in 1805.

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Ligurian Republic, the formation of, ii.

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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.

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Ligurian republic, 9, 12, 37, 38.

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