Giorgio I, Prince of Seborga

Giorgio I. ( née: Giorgio Carbone, * June 14, 1936, † 25 November 2009) was from 1993 to 2009 Prince of Seborga, a village in Liguria. Giorgio I. reigned as an elected prince 16 years his five -square-mile principality.

Life

Carbone came from a family of florists and mimosa growers. He was managing director of the local florist community. In the early 1960s he participated in historical studies, from which he concluded that Seborga was assumed neither the Congress of Vienna, nor in the founding of the Italian Republic in 1946, a state power.

In 1993, the inhabitants of Seborga Carbones arguments were so convinced that they chose him with 304 votes to four votes against the prince for life. Since then, he was SAS Giorgio I, Principe di Seborga. He left in 1994 the old currency Seborga, the Luigino, shape again, and print their own stamps. He designed a coat of arms, adopted a constitution, had a cabinet, and his army consisted of one person.

Italy did not recognize his principality to its citizens still paid taxes to the Italian State and participated in the Italian elections.

Carbone, who was not married, died in 2009 in Seborga without a biological heir to. His body was cremated in Nice, scattered his ashes in the sea.