Lombardy : region of northern Italy, extending from the Swiss border to the Po & from the Ticino to the Minico River. Lombards were an ancient Germanic people settled along the lower Elbe in 1st century who, in 568, conquered northern Italy. Lombardy was under Austrian rule in 1713-96.
... Italian republics? There were republics in mediaeval Italy, but we did not know that Naples and Sicily were republics under King Bomba, or Rome under the Popes, or Tuscany under the Grand Duke, or Lombardy under the Austrians, or Sardinia and Piedmont under the descendants of Victor Amadeus. Then again Mr. Ghose has "observed" that the different States of Greece developed a national unity as soon as ...
... y in India in no way differs from the position of the Turkish despotism as it existed with regard to the Christian populations of the Balkans previous to their independence or of the Austrians in Lombardy before the Italian Revolution. It is a position which endangers, demoralizes and eventually weakens the ruling nation as Austria and Turkey were demoralized and weakened, and which disorganizes and ...
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