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"Inno al Re" (English: "Hymn to the King"), disputed between Giovanni Paisiello and Pietro Pisani, [1] was a hymn praising King Ferdinand IV of Naples, then Ferdinand I of Two Sicilies, which functioned as the national anthem of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Francis II (Neapolitan and Italian: Francesco II, Sicilian: Francischieddu; christened Francesco d'Assisi Maria Leopoldo; 16 January 1836 – 27 December 1894) was King of the Two Sicilies. He was the last King of the Two Sicilies as successive invasions by Giuseppe Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia ultimately brought an end to his ...
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 ...
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.
Real Marina (Kingdom of the Two Sicilies) (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Military of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies" This category contains only the following page.