Grand Duchy o Tuscany

Grand Duchy o Tuscany
Grand Duchy o Tuscany; Granducato di Toscana
	1569–1801; 1815–1859
	Banner Coat o airms
	Anthem: "La Leopolda"
	The Grand Duchy o Tuscany at its greatest extent in 1796.
Caipital	Florence
Common leids	Italian
Govrenment	Unitar absolute monarchy
Grand Duke
• 1569–1574	Cosimo I de' Medici (first)
• 1824–1859	Leopold II (last)
History
• Established	27 August 1569
• End o Medici rule	9 Julie 1737
• Abolished	21 Mairch 1801
• Reestablished	9 Juin 1815
• Deposition o the Hoose o Habsburg-Lorraine	16 August 1859
• Merged tae form; the Unitit Provinces; o Central Italy	8 December 1859
Population
• 1801	1096641 [1]
Currency	Tuscan lira (−1826); Tuscan fiorino (1826–1859)
Precedit bi	Succeedit bi
	Duchy o Florence
	First French Empire
	Duchy o Lucca
Kinrick o Etruria
Unitit Provinces o Central Italy
	[1] Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Ireland; Hoise o Commons, John Bowring, 1839, p 6

The Grand Duchy o Tuscany (Italian: Granducato di Toscana, Laitin: Magnus Ducatus Etruriae) wis a central Italian monarchy that exeestit, wi interruptions, frae 1569 tae 1859, replacin the Duchy o Florence.^[1] The grand duchy's caipital was Florence. Tuscany wis nominally a state o the Haly Roman Empire till the Treaty o Campo Formio in 1797.^[2]

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

↑ Strathern, Paul: The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance, Vintage books, London, 2003, ISBN 978-0-09-952297-3, pp. 315–321
↑ The aurie conseesting o the umwhile Republic o Florence tae the Empire; an the aurie umwhile conseestin o the Republic o Siena tae Spain Heraldica.org (see citation nummer 1)