Venetia

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Venetia

Venetia is a name used mostly in a historical context for the area of Northeast Italy

Northeast Italy

Northeast Italy is an informal cultural and geographic region of Italy and subregion of Northern Italy. It is generally considered to be comprised of three Regions of Italy: Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige/S?dtirol, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia....
, corresponding approximately to the present-day Italian administrative regions of the Veneto

Veneto

Veneto or Venetia , is one of the 20 Regions of Italy of Italy. Its population is about 4.8 million, and its capital is Venice. Once the cradle of the renowned Republic of Venice, then a land of mass emigration, Veneto is today among the wealthiest and most industrialized regions of Italy....
and Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli-Venezia Giulia is one of the twenty regions of Italy, and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The capital is Trieste. It has an area of 7,856 km? and about 1.2 million inhabitants....
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Venetia formed for a long time the Italian land portion of the Republic of Venice

Republic of Venice

The Most Serene Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice . It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century AD until the year 1797....
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Venetia is a name used mostly in a historical context for the area of Northeast Italy

Northeast Italy

Veneto

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Republic of Venice

Formation of the Napoleonic Empire

Between 1795 and 1799, the French Constitution of 1795 dictated there be an Executive arm of government ? the French Directory, composed of five Directors....
, and was included in the French Empire

First French Empire

The Empire of the French , also known as the Greater French Empire or First French Empire, but more commonly known as the Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France in France....
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After the Congress of Vienna

Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815....
, 1815, Venetia was a part of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia

Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia

The Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia was a kingdom in northern Italy, and part of the Austrian Empire. It was established after the defeat of Napoleon, according to the decisions of the Congress of Vienna, on 9 June 1815....
, a separate kingdom of the Austrian Empire

Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire was a periodization successor state empire founded on a remnant of the Holy Roman Empire centered on what is today's Austria that officially lasted from 1804 to 1867....
. In 1848, Venetia arose against the central Austrian government, forming the Republic of San Marco

Republic of San Marco

The Republic of San Marco was an Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states existing for 17 months in 1848?1849. Based on the Venetian lagoon, it extended into most of the wikt:terra firma territory of the Venetian Republic, suppressed 51 years before in the French Revolutionary Wars....
, which lasted only 17 months. Venetia remained under Austrian control until the Austro-Prussian war

Austro-Prussian War

The Austro-Prussian War was a war fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and its German allies on one side and the Kingdom of Prussia with its German allies and Kingdom of Italy on the other, that resulted in Prussian dominance over the German states....
in 1866, when the Kingdom of Italy

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

The Kingdom of Italy was a state forged in 1861 by the Italian unification under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia; it existed until 1946 when the Italians opted for a republican constitution....
joined this war on the Prussian front and she was promised Venetia as thanks for her assistance. Once the war ended, control was ceaded to Italy on October 20, indeed, and a referendum held on October 21/22 ratified the handover thus realized.