Communism · Part 8

the Congress of Vienna. Eight states were set up and the whole of Northern Italy was handed over to the German-speaking Austrians. Italy in the nineteenth century was a ‘patchwork of about a dozen large states and a number of smaller ones.’ Metternich described Italy as “a mere geographical expression.” The empire of Piedmont-Sardinia, in the northwest, bordering Kingdom of Piedmont, before Kingdom of Piedmont, Kingdom of Piedmont, Kingdom of Piedmont, - FRANCE SWITZERLAND LOMBARDY VENETIA AUSTRIAN EMPIRE OTTOMAN EMPIRE PAPAL STATES PARMA ROMAGNA KINGDOM OF THE TWO SICILIES MODENA MARCHES UMBRIA TUSCANY SAVOY Turin Nice Monaco Genoa Corsica (France) Mediterranean Sea Tyrrhenian Sea Ionian Sea Adriatic Sea Sardinia Florence Megenta Milan Solferino Venice Rome Naples NAPLES Messina Sicily PIEDMONT KINGDOM OF PIEDMONT E W N S Not to Scale