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The Kingdom of Naples (Italian: Regno di Napoli; Neapolitan: Regno 'e Napule; French: Royaume de Naples) was a French client state in southern Italy created in 1806 when the Bourbon Ferdinand IV & III of Naples and Sicily sided with the Third Coalition against Napoleon and was in return ousted from his kingdom by a French invasion.
Oct 15, 2024 · When Joseph was transferred to Spain (1808), Napoleon gave Naples to his brother-in-law Joachim Murat. Under the French, Naples was modernized by the abolition of feudalism and the introduction of a uniform legal code , and Murat was deservedly popular as king.
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The history of Naples could be seen as the history of Europe. After first establishing colonies on the islands as early as the 2nd millennium BCE, the first Greek settlement on mainland Italy was founded in around the 8th century BCE: a city called Cumae. As it grew, Cumae was renamed as Neapolis, or "new city", becoming one of Ancient Greece's str...
For several centuries the city flourished as the Duchy of Naples under native dukes, until the 1100s, when the Normans arrived in southern Italy. Naples was subsequently passed from empire to empire throughout the Middle Ages: it remained prosperous during Norman control in 12th century; a German emperor ruled for brief period and oversaw the found...
From 1734, Sicily, Naples and the rest of Southern Italy became an independent and prospering kingdom again until the 1790s, when, like the rest of Europe, Italy felt the affect of the French Revolution. In 1799 Napoleon's army reached Naples, creating the short-lived Parthenopean Republic. The 1800s saw revolutions and returns to monarchy under th...
Following the unification of Italy, Naples lost much of the importance that it had once held. A cholera epidemic and industrialisation inspired modernising reforms in the late 19th century, however, the events of the early 20th century would take their toll: World War I, the rise of Fascism in Italy and the Great Depression of the 1930shit the city...
In 1806 the kingdom of Naples was conquered by Napoleon Bonaparte who appointed his brother Joseph as the new king. The Bourbons were forced to retreat to Sicily. After a few years the French emperor also conquered Spain, so Joseph Bonaparte left to go to reign the Iberian peninsula.
For nearly ten years, from 1806 to 1815, Naples and southern Italy formed part of Napoleon's continental enterprise. Although Napoleon never once set foot in Naples, during this brief decade southern Italy was a peripheral but also an integral part of the imperial system.
In early 1806 Napoleon conquered the Kingdom of Naples. The Emperor Napoleon first named his brother Joseph Bonaparte to be King and then his brother-in-law and Marshal Joachim Murat in 1808, when Joseph was given the Spanish crown.
Sep 14, 2006 · This book develops a critical reassessment of the dynamics of political change in the century before Unification. Its starting point is the crisis that overwhelmed the Italian states at the end of the 18th century, when Italian rulers saw the political and economic fabric of the Ancien Régime undermined throughout Europe.
