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Republic of Texas
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Tatar Republic
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Federal Republic of Germany
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Dutch Republic
DUTCH REPUBLIC DUTCH REPUBLIC. Sir William Temple, English ambassador to The Hague, famously described the Dutch Republic in 1673 as "the Envy of some, the Fear of others, and the Wonder of all their Neighbours." How such a small country Read more |
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republic
republic [Lat. res publica, =public affair], today understood to be a sovereign state ruled by representatives of a widely inclusive electorate. The term republic formerly denoted a form of government that was both free from hereditary or monarchical rule and had popular control of the state and... Read more |
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Republic of Korea
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (ROK) LOCATION, SIZE, AND EXTENT TOPOGRAPHY CLIMATE FLORA AND FAUNA ENVIRONMENT POPULATION MIGRATION ETHNIC GROUPS LANGUAGES RELIGIONS TRANSPORTATION HISTORY GOVERNMENT POLITICAL PARTIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT Read more |
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Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF (DPRK) LOCATION, SIZE, AND EXTENT TOPOGRAPHY CLIMATE FLORA AND FAUNA ENVIRONMENT POPULATION MIGRATION ETHNIC GROUPS LANGUAGES RELIGIONS TRANSPORTATION HISTORY GOVERNMENT POLITICAL PARTIES ... Read more |
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Bergamo
Bergamo , city (1991 pop. 114,936), capital of Bergamo prov., in Lombardy, N Italy, in the foothills of the Alps. It is an industrial center and an agricultural market. Manufactures include machinery, textiles, and cement. Originally a Gallic town, Bergamo became an independent commune in the 12th... Read more |
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Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic the German government in the post-World War I period, so called because the Reichstag (national assembly) met in the town of Weimar. The republic was proclaimed on November 9, 1918, and its constitution was adopted on July 31, 1919. The Weimar Republic ended with the ascension of... Read more |
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Batavian Republic
Batavian Republic name for the Netherlands in the years (1795-1806) following conquest by the French during the French Revolutionary Wars . The United Provinces of the Netherlands were reconstituted as the Batavian Republic in 1795 and remained under French occupation and tutelage. In 1801,... Read more |
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Milan
...centre of a plain which was an economically and strategically important region. Napoleon† made it the capital of the Cisalpine Republic in 1797 and of the new Kingdom of Italy, with himself as king, in 1805; this only lasted until 1814. The present... |
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Napoleon I
...resulted in the creation of the French-controlled Cisalpine Republic in northern Italy. In 1798 he led an army to Egypt...and overthrew the Directory and dissolved the First Republic. Elected First Consul for ten years, he became the... |
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Revolutionary Wars
...conquered, Belgium being annexed, and the Republic of Batavia created from the United Provinces...Switzerland was made into the Helvetic Republic (1798). In 1796–97 Napoleon took...Arcola and occupied Venice, creating the Cisalpine and Ligurian Republics. In ... |
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Rubicon
...that was the ancient boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy during the time of the Roman Republic (509–44 bc). By crossing it with his...Senate. Civil war ensued and brought the republic to an end. The name comes from the Latin... |
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Gaul
...culture and language of the Celts extended across the Alps into Cisalpine Gaul [L Gallia Cisalpina], what is today northern Italy...much of northern Europe, from Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, much of the Balkans, to Galatia in what is today... |
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Anniversaries
...Napoleon Bonaparte became president of the Italian Republic, formerly the Cisalpine republic, 1802; Hong Kong became a British sovereign...fell to Franco's army, 1939; India became a republic within the Commonwealth, 1950. Today is Australia... |
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The revolution spreads.(French Revolution)
...continent of Europe along revolutionary lines. In some regions, they created new republics--the Batavian Republic in the former Netherlands and the Cisalpine Republic in northern Italy. In others, they annexed territories like Belgium to France... |
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FRANC DISCUSSIONS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
...Napoleonic orbit, Switzerland became the Helvetian Republic from 1798 to 1803 and was attached to the French revolutionary...centimes from France, Sardinia, Parma, the old Cisalpine Republic and the new kingdom of Italy were still in use. But... |
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British Historian J.M. Roberts
...College, where he received a doctorate in history. Fluent in French and Italian, he wrote his thesis on Italy's Cisalpine Republic of the Napoleonic era. He was a fellow and modern history tutor at Oxford's Merton College from 1953 to 1979... |
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On top of the world: R.I. Moore celebrates the life and achievements of John...
...thoughtful introductory essay, The French Revolution (2nd ed. 1997). His doctoral thesis had been on the Napoleonic Cisalpine Republic, where he encountered some of the bizarre characters and phenomena that provided the subject matter of The Mythology... |
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How Animal Electricity Got a Life of its Own
...mind. He had died in 1798, in poverty, after refusing to give an oath of allegiance to the new French-imposed Cisalpine Republic. In 1800, Volta announced his best-known invention through the world's premier scientific society, the Royal... |
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Travel: Destination: Lugano: Cuckoo clocks and fur coats.(Features)
...arrived in 1798 to reorganize the area under his new Cisalpine Republic. But faced with a mere exchange of overlords, the...Svizzeri!'' ('' Free and Swiss!''), the Republic of Ticino joined the Confereration as a new canton... |
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Milan is Energized in December with The European Geothermal Energy Conference...
...and they could not resist invading it. Indeed, the great Napoleon Bonaparte also made Milan the capital of his Cisalpine Republic after he ousted the Austrians in 1796. In the year 1805, Milan became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy under... |
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Friends, Romans and fans of classical allusions ...
...that it was the boundary between Italy, the territory of the city of Rome, and the province of Cisalpine Gaul. In order to protect the republic from military coups, generals were not permitted to bring their legions into Italy proper, and... |
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Caesar vs. the Celts.(Brief Article)
...he served as proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum. Instead...fighting the rebellious tribes of Cisalpine Gaul and Transalpine Gaul...Belgium. During the Roman Republic, two elected consuls served...proconsul in a Roman province. Cisalpine Gaul referred ... |
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