biography
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Ferdinand I (of the Two Sicilies)
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| lived:
| (1751–1825)
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| biography:
| King of Naples, as Ferdinand IV (1759–99, 1799–1806) and of the Two Sicilies (1816–25), born in Naples, SW Italy. He joined England and Austria against France in 1793, and suppressed the French-supported Roman Republic (1799), but in 1801 was forced to make a treaty with Napoleon. In 1806 he took refuge in Sicily, under English protection, being reinstated by the Congress of Vienna (1815). In 1816 he united his two states into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and, despite demands for constitutional government, retained a harsh absolutism. |
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