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4 days ago · The Bourbon Kingdom of Sicily was only superficially affected by Napoleon’s rule. It abolished slavery and introduced a code inspired by the French model in 1819 following its integration into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (formed through the merging of the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily in 1816 ).
2 days ago · In 1809, Louis Philippe married Princess Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, daughter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Maria Carolina of Austria. The ceremony was celebrated in Palermo 25 November 1809.
2 days ago · Maria Anna bore him five children, but only two survived to adulthood, a daughter Margarita Teresa, born in 1651, and the future Charles II of Spain in 1661 – but the latter was sickly and considered in frequent danger of dying, making the line of inheritance potentially uncertain.
2 days ago · Naples surrendered on June 23, 1799, and soon afterward the king returned from Sicily. At the behest of the British admiral Horatio Nelson and Queen Maria Carolina, wife of Ferdinand and a sister of Marie-Antoinette of France, the king (violating the terms of the surrender) ordered the execution of more than 100 revolutionary leaders.
5 days ago · Princess Camilla of Bourbon Two Sicilies, née Crociani and wife of the heir to the throne of Naples, has made an appeal to the Privy Council in London and the European Court of Human Rights, in a sign that she is not giving up her fight against BNP Paribas.
3 days ago · The Sicilians ( Sicilian: Siciliani ), or Sicilian people, are a Romance -speaking European ethnic group who are indigenous to the island of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the largest and most populous of the autonomous regions of Italy .
5 days ago · With the conquest of Naples and Sicily in 1734 by Charles of Bourbon (who ruled as Charles VII until 1759), the Italian south celebrated its nominal independence under a new foreign dynasty.
