A second treaty, between France and Sardinia, saw France cede Lombardy to Sardinia.

Cagliari Calcio ( ) is an Italian football club based in Cagliari, Sardinia.

The war marked the failure of Sardinia to defeat Austria singlehandedly.

This caused Sardinia to seek allies against Austria and ultimately only with French (1859) and Prussian (1866) help would Sardinia be able to drive out the Austrians from Northern Italy.

He was the father of the last three mainline Kings of Sardinia.

From 1814 Alessandria was Savoyard territory once more, part of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

In 1859, during the unification of Italy process, it joined the Kingdom of Sardinia.

And indeed the pope tried to deprive the town of its dominions in northern Sardinia.

D. H. Lawrence, in his memoir of a voyage to Sardinia, Sea and Sardinia , that he undertook in January 1921, described the effect of warm Mediterranean sunlight on the white limestone city and compared Cagliari to a white Jerusalem .

The Battle of Custoza was fought on July 24 and 25, 1848 during the First Italian War of Independence between the armies of the Austrian Empire, commanded by Field Marshal Radetzky, and the Kingdom of Sardinia, led by King Charles Albert of Sardinia Piedmont.

Charles Albert (Carlo Alberto Amedeo 2 October 1798 28 July 1849) was the King of Piedmont Sardinia from 1831 to 1849.

The First Italian War of Independence was fought in 1848 and 1849 between the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Austrian Empire.

Victor Amadeus III (Vittorio Amadeo Maria 26 June 1726 16 October 1796) was King of Sardinia from 1773 until his death.

The Treaty of Zurich was signed by the Austrian Empire, the French Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia on November 10, 1859.

You go into the bars in Sardinia, instead of seeing the Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendar, you see the centenarian of the month calendar.

As part of Tuscany, it became part of the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1860 and finally part of the Italian State in 1861.

The Siege of Gaeta was the concluding event of the war between the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

However, old republics such as Venice and Genoa were not recreated, Venice went to Austria, and Genoa went to the Kingdom of Sardinia.

This was the first evidence of how effective popular initiative, guided by those in the Risorgimento, was able to influence Charles Albert of Sardinia.

In 1092 Pope Urban II awarded Pisa the supremacy over Corsica and Sardinia, and at the same time raising the town to the rank of archbishopric.

In the congress of Vienna, the Kingdom of Sardinia was restored, and furthermore received the Republic of Genoa to strengthen it as a barrier against France.

To the south, it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula and the two Mediterranean islands of Sicily and Sardinia, in addition to many smaller islands.

The Gothic War between the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy was fought from 535 until 554 in Italy, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica.

For example, after Britain lost its American colonies at the end of the eighteenth century, Horace Walpole lamented Britain s reduction to as insignificant a country as Denmark or Sardinia.

Garibaldi, a native of Nice (then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia), participated in an uprising in Piedmont in 1834, was sentenced to death, and escaped to South America.

Austria receives from Spain, Spanish territories in Italy the Kingdom of Naples, Duchy of Milan and Kingdom of Sardinia as well as the Southern Netherlands and from France Freiburg and Landau.

On the way he made one last detour to Sardinia, then in 1349 returned to Tangier by way of Fez, only to discover that his mother had also died a few months before.

Victor Amadeus protested this exchange, Sicily being a rich country of over one million inhabitants and Sardinia a poor country of a few hundred thousand, but he was unable to resist his allies .

The Congress of Paris was a peace conference held between representatives of the great powers in Europe, which at the time were France, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, Sardinia, Russia, Austria, and Prussia.

Following this battle, Milan and the rest of Lombardy were incorporated into the Kingdom of Sardinia, which soon gained control of most of Italy and in 1861 was rechristened as the Kingdom of Italy.

After declaring independence from the Habsburg Austrian Empire, the republic later joined the Kingdom of Sardinia, in an attempt, led by the latter, to unite northern Italy against foreign (mainly Austrian but also French) domination.

Charles Albert abdicated in favor of his son Victor Emmanuel, and a peace treaty was signed on August 9, 1849 and Piedmont Sardinia was forced to pay an indemnity of 65 million francs to Austria.

Austria issued an ultimatum on April 23, 1859, demanding the complete demobilization of the Sardinian army, and when it was not heeded, Austria started a war with Sardinia (April 29), thus drawing France into the conflict.

Luigi Cadorna (4 September 1850, Verbania, Piedmont Sardinia 21 December 1928) was an Italian Field Marshal, most famous for being the chief of staff of the Italian army during the first part of World War I.

Soon, Charles Albert, the King of Sardinia (who ruled Piedmont and Savoy), urged by the Venetians and Milanese to aid their cause, decided this was the moment to unify Italy and declared war on Austria (First Italian Independence War).

It has, moreover, supplied a remarkable contribution to the forces of police for the control of the territory of the province of Bolzano Bozen (1967), in Sardinia ( Forza Paris 1992), in Sicily ( Vespri Siciliani 1992) and in Calabria (1994).

Martin the Humane (29 July 1356 20 January 1410), also called the Elder and the Ecclesiastic, was King of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia and Corsica and Count of Barcelona from 1396 and King of Sicily from 1409 (as Martin II).

COSTA SMERALDA, SARDINIA Every nation gets the government it deserves, observed Joseph de Maistre, the Sardinian kingdom s diplomatic envoy to the Russian empire, some 200 years ago. He was commenting on Russians deep seated political apathy a trait that persists to this day.

The Battle of Novara or Battle of Bicocca (Bicocca is a borough of Novara) was one of the battles fought between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia during the First Italian War of Independence, within the era of Italian unification.

This situation was shaken in 1796, when the French Army of Italy under Napoleon invaded Italy, with the aims of forcing the First Coalition to abandon Sardinia (where they had created an anti revolutionary puppet ruler) and forcing Austria to withdraw from Italy.

In 1831 Cauchy went to the Italian city of Turin, and after some time there, he accepted an offer from the King of Sardinia (who ruled Turin and the surrounding Piedmont region) for a chair of theoretical physics, which was created especially for him.

The resulting Congress of Vienna (1814) restored a situation close to that of 1795, dividing Italy between Austria (in the north east and Lombardy), the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (in the south and in Sicily), and Tuscany, the Papal States and other minor states in the centre.