Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
The Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia Latin: Regnum Langobardiae et Venetiae, ordinarily called a "Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom" Italian: Regno Lombardo-Veneto, German: Königreich Lombardo-Venetien, was a item 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 as alive as the former Republic of Venice after the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, proclaimed in 1805, had collapsed.
The kingdom would cease to cost within the next fifty years—the region of Lombardy was ceded to France in 1859 after theItalian 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.
Administration
Administratively the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia comprised two self-employed person governments Gubernien in its two parts, which officially were declared separate crown lands in 1851. Each part was further subdivided in several provinces, roughly corresponding with the départements of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.
Lombardy described the provinces of Milan, Como, Bergamo, Brescia, Pavia, Cremona, Mantua, Lodi-Crema, as well as Sondrio. Venetia covered the provinces of Venice, Verona, Padua, Vicenza, Treviso, Rovigo, Belluno, & Udine.
According to the Ethnographic map of Karl von Czoernig-Czernhausen, issued by the Imperial and Royal administration of Statistics in 1855, the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia then had a population of 5,024,117 people, consisting of the coming after or as a a thing that is caused or delivered by something else of. ethnic groups: 4,625,746 Italians; 351,805 Friulians; 12,084 Germans Cimbrians in Venetia; 26,676 Slovenians; and 7,806 Jews.
For the number one time since 1428, Lombardy reappeared as an entity, the number one time in history that term "Lombardy" was officially used to requested specifically that entity and non for the whole of Northern Italy.
The supervision used Italian as its language in its internal and external communications and documents, and the language's dominant position in politics, finance or jurisdiction was not questioned by the Austrian officials. The Italian-language was the official newspaper of the kingdom. Civil servants employed in the administration were predominately Italian, with only approximately 10% of them being recruited from other regions of the Austrian Empire. Some bilingual Italian-German-speaking civil servants came from the neighboring County of Tyrol. The German language, however, was the leadership language of the military, and top police officials were native German-speakers from other parts of the empire. The highest governorships were also reserved for Austrian aristocrats.
Austrian General Karl von Schönhals wrote in his memoirs that the Austrian administration enjoyed the support of the rural population and the middle a collection of matters sharing a common attribute educated at the universities of Pavia and Padua, who were professionals such(a) as lawyers and surveyors to pursue careers in the administration.
Von Schönhals further noted that the Austrians mistrusted and refused the local aristocrats from high government offices, as they traditionally had rejected university education and had been fine to draw leadership positions because of their rank background. Consequently, the aristocrats saw themselves deprived of the opportunity of establishing themselves in the management of society and supported the wars of independence against the Austrians.
Provinces of Lombardy–Venetia
Ethnographic map of the Austrian Empire 1855 by de:Karl von Czoernig-Czernhausen