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Milan, Duchy of
The Duchy of Milan is a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire in northern Italy.
It is created in 1395, when it includes twenty-six towns and the wide rural area of the middle Padan Plain east of the hills of Montferrat.
During much of its existence, it is wedged between Savoy to the west, Venice to the east, the Swiss Confederacy to the north, and separated from the Mediterranean by Genoa to the south.
The Duchy eventually falls to Habsburg Austria with the Treaty of Baden (1714), concluding the War of the Spanish Succession.
The Duchy remains an Austrian possession until 1796, when a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte conquers it, and it ceases to exist a year later as a result of the Treaty of Campo Formio, when Austria cedes it to the new Cisalpine Republic.After the defeat of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna of 1815 restores many other states which he had destroyed, but not the Duchy of Milan.
Instead, its former territory becomes part of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, with the Emperor of Austria as its king.
In 1859, Lombardy is ceded to the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, which will become the Kingdom of Italy in 1861.
Member Cities
- Milan > Milano > Mediolanum Lombardia Italy Capital
- Bassano del Grappa Veneto Italy Location
- Battle of Maclodio Lombardia Italy Location
- Bergamo Lombardia Italy Location
- Bologna Emilia-Romagna Italy Location
- Brescello Emilia-Romagna Italy Location
- Brescia Lombardia Italy Location
- Capua Campania Italy Location
- Casalmaggiore Lombardia Italy Location
- Castiglione Olona Lombardia Italy Location
- Chiari Lombardia Italy Location
- Constantinople > Istanbul Istanbul Turkey Location
- Crema Lombardia Italy Location
- Cremona Lombardia Italy Location
- Ferrara Emilia-Romagna Italy Location
- Gaeta Lazio Italy Location
- Genoa > Genova Liguria Italy Location
- Gottolengo Lombardia Italy Location
- Heidelberg Baden-Württemberg Germany Location
- London Middlesex United Kingdom Location
- Lucca Toscana Italy Location
- Melegnano Lombardia Italy Location
- Milano (Milan) Lombardia Italy Location
- Monza Lombardia Italy Location
- Naples > Napoli Campania Italy Location
- Padua > Padova Veneto Italy Location
- Paris Ile-de-France France Location
- Parma Emilia-Romagna Italy Location
- Pavia Lombardia Italy Location
- Perugia > Perusia Umbria Italy Location
- Ragusa > Dubrovnik Dubrovnik-Neretva Croatia Location
- Ravenna Emilia-Romagna Italy Location
- Rome > Roma Lazio Italy Location
- Siena Toscana Italy Location
- Soncino Lombardia Italy Location
- Trezzo sull'Adda Lombardia Italy Location
- Turin > Torino Piemonte Italy Location
- Venice > Venezia Veneto Italy Location
- Vercelli Piemonte Italy Location
- Verona Veneto Italy Location
- Vicenza Veneto Italy Location
- Volterra Toscana Italy Location