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 1802 the Napoleonic "Repubblica Italiana"
Italian Republic was the name taken by the former Cisalpine Republic of north-central Italy in 1802, following the change in its constitution that allowed French First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte to become its president.
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 1805 the Napoleonic
"Regno d'Italia"
Italian Republic consisted of the same areas the had made up the Cisalpine Republic – primarily Lombardy and the Romagna. In 1805, following Bonaparte's assumption of the title of Emperor of the French, it was transformed into the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia), with Napoleon as King and his nephew Eugène de Beauharnais as Viceroy.
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 1861 the Kingdom of Italy
On 15 April 1861, Kingdom of Sardinia/Piedmont flag (the Italian tricolour with Savoy's coat of arms) is declared national flag of the newly-formed Regno d'Italia (Kingdom of Italy). The Italian tricolour with Savoy's coat of arms was the Italian flag for 85 years, until the fall of the royal house of Italy.
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 1948 Italian Republic
In its current form, the Italian flag was adopted on 1 January 1948, with the introduction of the republican constitution, and the end of the rule of the House of Savoy over Italy. The Italian Constitution states (art. 12) that "The flag of the republic is the Italian tricolor: green, white and red, in three vertical stripes of the same dimension."
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