English Explanatory Dictionary

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A former kingdom in southern Italy with its capital at Palermo and Naples between 1816 and 1861, covering Sicily and most of the present-day Mezzogiorno.

Word forms

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

Etymology

A calque of Italian Regno delle Due Sicilie and Latin Regnum Utriusque Siciliae, both named in reference to the 1816 creation of the state as the personal union of the Kingdom of Sicily before Faro (the Kingdom of Naples, by its formal name), and the Kingdom of Sicily beyond Faro (the Kingdom of Sicily proper).

Synonyms

Two Sicilies Sicily Kingdom of Naples Naples
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