Republic of Pontecorvo

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Republic of Pontecorvo
Repubblica di Pontecorvo (Italian)
1820 [1] –1821 [2]
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Pontecorvo within the Papal Statss location map 1849.svg
Pontecorvo within the Papal States, 1849
Capital Pontecorvo
Common languages Italian
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Government Revolutionary republic
History 
• Proclaimed
4th August 1820 [1]
• Disestablished
17th March 1821 [2]
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Papal proto-national flag.svg Papal States
Papal States Papal proto-national flag.svg
Today part of Italy

The Republic of Pontecorvo was a short-lived revolutionary breakaway state in southern Italy. It unilaterally declared independence from the Papal States in 1820 at a time of unrest in the neighbouring Kingdom of Two Sicilies. [1]

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Background

Pontecorvo had been an exclave under Papal rule for hundreds of years. During the Napoleonic Wars, the exclave, having previously fallen under the administration of other Napoleonic client states, was turned into a separate principality and placed under the rule of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one of Napoleon’s marshals. The principality was returned to the Papal States in the Congress of Vienna. [1]

Revolution

The Carbonari, a secret revolutionary political organisation which had also been stirring unrest in Naples, proclaimed the republics of Pontecorvo and Benevento on 4 August 1820. [1] The liberalised Spanish constitution was adopted by the government of the both republics. They requested twice unsuccessfully to join the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which refused to negotiate the affairs of either state except through the Pope. [3]

Downfall

Forces of the Austrian Empire occupied Pontecorvo on 17 March 1821 and restored it to the Papal States, putting an end to the republic. However, sects of the Carbonari remained in Pontecorvo in spite of the revolution's failure. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Pontecorvo" (in Italian).
  2. 1 2 3 "E Giovanni Battista apparve a Pontecorvo. Per convertire i cuori" [And John the Baptist appeared in Pontecorvo. To convert the hearts] (in Italian). 14 May 2012.
  3. ↑ "STORIA DELLA RIVOLUZIONE DI NAPOLI DEL 1820" [HISTORY OF THE 1820 REVOLUTION OF NAPLES] (in Italian).
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