Kingdom of Italy Regno d'Italia Royaume d'Italie | |
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1805–1814 | |
Status | In personal union with the French Empire |
Capital | Milan |
Common languages | Italian, French |
Government | Constitutional monarchy |
King | |
• 1805–1814 | Napoleon I |
Viceroy | |
• 1805–1814 | Eugène de Beauharnais |
Legislature | Consultant Senate |
Historical era | Napoleonic Wars |
17 March 1805 | |
19 March 1805 | |
• Coronation of Napoleon I | 23 May 1805 |
26 December 1805 | |
8 February 1814 | |
11 April 1814 | |
30 May 1814 | |
Currency | Italian Lira |
ISO 3166 code | IT |
The Kingdom of Italy (1805–1814, Italian: Regno d'Italia; French: Royaume d'Italie) was a kingdom in Northern Italy. It was formerly the Italian Republic. The kingdom was in union with France under Napoleon I. It ended with Napoleon's defeat. It covered Savoy and the modern provinces of Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino, South Tyrol, and Marche. Napoleon I also ruled the rest of northern and central Italy in the many different forms. These included Nice, Aosta, Piedmont, Liguria, Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio.