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A new set of lyrics has been written by Neapolitan songwriter Riccardo Pazzaglia to go along with the original composition. This variation of the anthem is known as Ritornati dal passato (Back from the Past). On September 7th 1993, it has been officially adopted as the anthem of the "Movimento Neoborbonico", a Two Sicilies independence movement ...
Original flag of the Army of the Two Sicilies Coat of Arms of the Army of the Two Sicilies. The Army of the Two Sicilies, also known as the Royal Army of His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Reale Esercito di Sua Maestà il Re del Regno delle Due Sicilie), the Bourbon Army (Esercito Borbonico) or the Neapolitan Army (Esercito Napoletano), was the land forces of the Kingdom ...
The king of the Two Sicilies was overthrown by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860, after which the people voted in a plebiscite to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. The annexation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies completed the first phase of Italian unification, and the new Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in 1861.
In 1848–49, another Sicilian revolution of independence occurred, which was put down by the new king, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, who was nicknamed Re Bomba after his 5-day bombardment of Messina. The increased hostility of the peoples and the elites of Sicily towards Naples and the Bourbon dynasty created a very unstable equilibrium ...
The decoration was a five-pointed red enameled gold star bearing the coat of arms of Naples and Sicily and the inscription Joseph Neapoles Siciliarum rex instituit.The original badge was surmounted by an eagle, but Ferdinand I modified it by replacing the eagle with the royal crown and changing the inscription to Ferdinandus Borbonius utriusque Siciliae Rex P.F.A..
King of the Two Sicilies (Rè delle Due Sicilie) Francis I (Francesco I) 4 January 1825 8 November 1830 • Son of Ferdinand I King of the Two Sicilies (Rè delle Due Sicilie) Ferdinand II (Ferdinando II) 8 November 1830 22 May 1859 • Son of Francis I King of the Two Sicilies (Rè delle Due Sicilie) Francis II (Francesco II) 22 May 1859 20 ...
Joachim Murat was the first king to rule a kingdom called "Two Sicilies" by the Edict of Bayonne, in 1808.Though he controlled the mainland, he never physically controlled the island of Sicily, where his Bourbon rival had fled from Naples.
direct rule of King Ferdinand III 1806–1813; Lieutenant-General: Francis, Duke of Calabria 1813–1816; Lieutenant-General: Niccolò Filangieri, Prince of Cutò 1816; In 1816 the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily were merged into the new Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.