Transpadane Republic

The Transpadane Republic ( Repubblica Transpadana ) was established by the French Revolution export Italian subsidiary Republic, formed from the Austrian Lombardy with the duchies of Milan and Mantua ( hence the name Lombardy Republic). It was proclaimed on November 15, 1796 and renamed after the union with the Cispadanischen Republic on 29 June 1797 in Cisalpine Republic.

Development

The military successes of Napoleon Bonaparte the First Coalition War allowed since the spring of 1796 in the northern Italian cities and territories to build pro- French republican administration institutions which grew in the autumn of the same year to cross- state structures. After the Battle of Lodi on 10 May of the year Bonaparte had declared the feudal rule in Lombardy ended.

The proclamation of the Republic Transpadane took place on November 15, 1796 The country's name was derived from the Latin words for trans and beyond Padus for the Po forth. ; the Transpadane Republic was thus seen Italian point of view, the Republic beyond the Po. At the same time, the name reminded her of her territorial about appropriate antique, decorated by Emperor Augustus region ( Gallia ) Transpadana. On December 27, 1796 constituted the south of the Po Cispadanische Republic. Although the naming of this French subsidiary republics on the Po avoided the French point of view and defused by the accusation of an expansive power politics of France, but wore some explosiveness in: with antiquity, the question of a national Italian central government, which lost since the fall of the Roman Empire Association was gone. The terms transpadanisch and cispadanisch were a challenge to the existence of all pre-revolutionary, resulting in the Middle Ages States on Italian soil.

With further increase in territory of the Republic Cispadanischen the extent of the Republic changed such that it on June 29, 1797 gave rise to the Cisalpine Republic.

Flag

On August 19, 1796, the urban militias were converted into a National Guard, whose uniforms wore green, white and red colors. According to a usual practice, these three colors were adopted in the military standards. As of October 9, first appeared on flags in these colors. On October 11, Bonaparte confirmed in a letter green, white and red as the national colors of the new republic. From 6 November to standards were distributed to the troops, on which also have different slogans were still attached.