THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1399–1801

Lordship, later Principality of Piombino

A small coastal state facing Elba, founded when Gherardo Appiani sold Pisa to the Visconti in 1399 and kept Piombino; a principality from 1594. Elba belonged to it except Portoferraio, Medici from 1548.

Ceded to France in 1801 and given to Elisa Bonaparte in 1805.

See Lordship, later Principality of Piombino on the map in 1399

On the map
1399–1801
Capital
Piombino

Rulers named in the sources

Western and central European states, 430–1956

States of western and central Europe: the Irish kingdoms of Meath, Osraige, Breifne, Thomond, Desmond and Tyrconnell, Pictish Fortriu, the Welsh kingdoms of Dyfed, Ceredigion and Deheubarth, Elmet, the taifas of Málaga, Majorca and Menorca, the prince-bishoprics of Liège and Utrecht, Guelders, Brabant, Namur, Limburg, Luxembourg, Cleves and Jülich, Bar and Provence, the Electoral Palatinate, Mainz, Hesse, the Welf principalities, Württemberg, Baden, Ansbach, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Meissen, Saxe-Wittenberg, Saxe-Lauenburg, Oldenburg and Pomerania, the Visconti, Gonzaga, Este, Montefeltro and Appiani states, Siena, Lucca and Gaeta, and in the 20th century the four occupation zones of Germany, the Saar Protectorate and the Free Territory of Trieste.

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