Small coins of Italian states until 1861
At the beginning of the 19th century, the united Kingdom of Lombardy and Venice was ruled by the Austrian Empire. A significant part of the central part of the Apennine Peninsula was occupied by the Papal Region. The largest territory was in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Naples and Sicily), slightly smaller in the Kingdom of Sardinia. Significantly smaller territories were occupied by the Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy of Modena and Reggio, the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, the Duchy of Massa and Carrara, the Duchy of Lucca. This is what the map of Italy looked like before the start of Risorgimento - the national liberation movement in Italy against the Austrian Empire, which ended in 1861 with the creation of the Italian Kingdom.
