Grand Duchy o Tuscany
Coordinates: 43°N 11°E / 43°N 11°E
The Grand Duchy o Tuscany (Italian: Granducato di Toscana, Laitin: Magnus Ducatus Etruriae) wis a central Italian monarchy that exeestit, wi interruptions, frae 1569 tae 1859, replacin the Duchy o Florence.[1] The grand duchy's caipital was Florence. Tuscany wis nominally a state o the Haly Roman Empire till the Treaty o Campo Formio in 1797.[2]
Grand Duchy o Tuscany Granducato di Toscana | |||||||||||||||
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| 1569–1801 1815–1859 | |||||||||||||||
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 The Grand Duchy o Tuscany at its greatest extent in 1796. | |||||||||||||||
| Caipital | Florence | ||||||||||||||
| Common leids | Italian | ||||||||||||||
| Govrenment | Unitar absolute monarchy | ||||||||||||||
| Grand Duke | |||||||||||||||
• 1569–1574 | Cosimo I de' Medici (first) | ||||||||||||||
• 1824–1859 | Leopold II (last) | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
• Established | 27 August 1569 | ||||||||||||||
• End o Medici rule | 9 Julie 1737 | ||||||||||||||
| 21 Mairch 1801 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 Juin 1815 | |||||||||||||||
• Deposition o the Hoose o Habsburg-Lorraine | 16 August 1859 | ||||||||||||||
• Merged tae form the Unitit Provinces o Central Italy | 8 December 1859 | ||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||
• 1801 | 1096641 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Currency | Tuscan lira (−1826) Tuscan fiorino (1826–1859) | ||||||||||||||
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[1] Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Ireland; Hoise o Commons, John Bowring, 1839, p 6 | |||||||||||||||
ReferencesEedit
- ↑ Strathern, Paul: The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance, Vintage books, London, 2003, ISBN 978-0-09-952297-3, pp. 315–321
- ↑ The aurie conseesting o the umwhile Republic o Florence tae the Empire; an the aurie umwhile conseestin o the Republic o Siena tae Spain Heraldica.org (see citation nummer 1)