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48 - A Kingdom is Born

Talking History: The Italian Unification by Benjamin & Adam Ashwell

Oct 22, 201646:08Society & Culture

1860 was a bad year to be a cartographer - or maybe a good year, depending on how you look at it. In 1859 there had been seven states in Italy: the Kingdom of Piedmont, the Austrian-controlled Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia...

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