Venetian Province
| Venetian Province | |||||||||
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| Province of the Habsburg monarchy | |||||||||
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Treaty of Pressburg | 1805 | ||||||||
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The Venetian Province (Venetian: Provinsa Veneta, German: Provinz Venedig) was the name of the territory of the former Republic of Venice ceded by the French First Republic to the Habsburg monarchy under the terms of the 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio that ended the War of the First Coalition. The province's capital was Venice.
In the course of the French
As with the other Habsburg realms of the time, this new province of Venice was held as a de jure separate entity in a personal union, with Francis taking the additional title of "Duke of Venice". Like many of his other realms it was not subject to the Holy Roman Empire. The province was directed by an Austrian governor, but continued to use former Venetian legislation and maintained its currency, the Venetian lira. The western border of the province was shifted in favour of the Cisalpine Republic by the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville, and drawn up along the thalweg of the lower Adige river.[2]
Unlike the previous 1,100-year-old republic, the province did not have a long existence. After the
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