Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia

Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia Regno Lombardo-Veneto  (Italian) Königreich Lombardo-Venetien, Österreichisches Italien[1]  (German) Regno Lonbardo–Veneto  (Venetian) Regn de Lombardia–Venezia  (Lombard)
1815–1866
Flag Coat of Arms
Motto: A.E.I.O.U. (motto for the House of Habsburg) "All the world is subject to Austria"[2][3]
Anthem: Inno Patriottico "The Patriotic Song"
The Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (green) and the Austrian Empire (light green) in 1815
Status	Crown land of the Austrian Empire
Capital	Milan (1815–1859) Venice (1859–1866)
Common languages	Lombard, Venetian, Friulian, Italian, and German
Religion	Roman Catholic
Government	Absolute monarchy
King
• 1815–1835	Francis I
• 1835–1848	Ferdinand I
• 1848–1866	Francis Joseph I
Viceroy / Governor-General
• 1815	Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen
• 1815–1816	Heinrich von Bellegarde
• 1816–1818	Anton Victor of Austria
• 1818–1848	Rainer Joseph of Austria
• 1848–1857	Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
• 1857–1859	Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria
History
• Congress of Vienna	9 June 1815
• Five Days of Milan	22 March 1848
• Lombardy ceded to France	10 November 1859
• Austro-Prussian War	14 June 1866
• Peace of Prague	23 August 1866
• Treaty of Vienna	12 October 1866
Area
1852[4]	46,782 km2 (18,063 sq mi)
Population
• 1852[4]	4,671,000
Currency	Lira (1816–1860) Fiorino (1860–1866)
Preceded by Succeeded by Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Republic of San Marco Second French Empire Kingdom of Italy
Today part of	Italy

The Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia,^[5] commonly called the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom,^[6] was a constituent land (crown land) of the Austrian Empire from 1815 to 1866. It was created in 1815 by resolution of the Congress of Vienna in recognition of the Austrian House of Habsburg-Lorraine's rights to the former Duchy of Milan and the former Republic of Venice after the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, proclaimed in 1805, had collapsed.^[7]

The kingdom survived for only fifty years—the region of Lombardy was ceded to France in 1859 after the Second Italian War of Independence, which then immediately ceded it to the Kingdom of Sardinia. Lombardy-Venetia was finally dissolved in 1866 when its remaining territory was incorporated into the recently proclaimed Kingdom of Italy following the kingdom's victory against Austria in the Third Italian War of Independence.

1. ↑ Pütz, Wilhelm (1855). Leitfaden bei dem Unterricht in der vergleichenden Erdbeschreibung. Freiburg.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
2. ↑ Heimann, Heinz-Dieter (2010). Die Habsburger: Dynastie und Kaiserreiche. Munich: Beck. pp. 38–45. ISBN 978-3-406-44754-9.
3. ↑ German: Alles Erdreich ist Österreich untertan (All soil is subject to Austria); Latin: Austriae est imperare orbi universo (Austria is to rule the whole world).
4. 1 2 Cite error: The named reference RSF was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
5. ↑ Latin: Regnum Langobardiae et Venetiae
6. ↑ Italian: Regno Lombardo-Veneto; German: Königreich Lombardo-Venetien
7. ↑ Rindler Schjerve, Rosita (2003). Diglossia and Power. Berlin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)