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Ligurian Republic
1797–1805
The French client republic that replaced the Republic of Genoa in 1797, retaining Genoa as its capital. It endured the harsh Siege of Genoa (1800).
- Existed
- 1797–1805
- Shown on the map
- 1797–1799, 1803–1804, 1814 (3 periods)
- Peak area
- 3k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
The French client republic that replaced the Republic of Genoa in 1797, retaining Genoa as its capital. It endured the harsh Siege of Genoa (1800). In 1805 it was annexed directly into the First French Empire (as French departments), ending nearly eight centuries of Genoese statehood.
Common questions
- What was the Ligurian Republic?
- The French client republic that replaced the Republic of Genoa in 1797, retaining Genoa as its capital. It endured the harsh Siege of Genoa (1800).
- When did the Ligurian Republic exist?
- The Ligurian Republic existed 1797–1805. On this map it is drawn 1797–1799, 1803–1804, 1814.
- How large was the Ligurian Republic?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Ligurian Republic covered about 3,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each polity as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and the scholarship of Donald Queller, Thomas Madden and Jonathan Harris on the Fourth Crusade, whose post-conspiracy reading of 1204 this document follows. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Ligurian Republic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligurian_Republic
This entry was last updated .
This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made
Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.
Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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