Duchy of Modena and Reggio [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Duchy of Modena and Reggio
The Duchy of Modena and Reggio (, ) was a small northwestern Italian state that existed from 1452 to 1859, with a break during the Napoleonic Wars (1796–1814) when Emperor Napoleon I reorganized the states and republics of renaissance-era Italy, then under the domination of his French Empire. It was ruled from 1814 by the noble House of Este, of Austria-Este.
House of Este.
In 1452 Emperor Frederick III offered the duchy to Borso d'Este, whose family had
the Austrian Empire, of the Duchy of Modena, of the Duchy of Parma and of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany for the construction of a railway starting in Piacenza and continuing to Parma, Reggio Emilia and Modena up to Bologna and from there towards Tuscany and Prato or Pistoia. There would be a junction at Reggio Emilia with a branch coming from the Po in the direction of Mantua.
History Finance.
A Building and Administration Committee was set up which, once activated, would be replaced by a Management Committee. A