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History Of Italy (18405 words) |
 | Italy no longer had any special and individual place in the empire, and the establishment of the new seat of empire at Constantinople in 330 was symptomatic of the decline of Italy and symbolic of the increased importance of the East, even though the new imperial capital was closely modeled after Rome. |
| On Mar. 17, 1861, Victor Emmanuel II was officially proclaimed king of Italy, and the Piedmontese constitution of 1848 was extended to the rest of the country. |
| Italy maintained the integrity of its territory, was able to protect its boundary with France, and was assured of the continued possession of Rome. |
| King of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (467 words) |
| King of Italy (rex Italiae in Latin and re d'Italia in Italian) is a title adopted by many rulers of the Italian peninsula after the fall of the Roman Empire. |
| In 774, the Lombards were defeated by the Franks under Charlemagne and their king, Desiderius, deposed. |
| The old kingdom of Italy survived within the Frankish Empire as a separate entity until 962, when the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I himself took the title. |
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