The Subalpine Senate () was the

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of the

Kingdom of Sardinia The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: , or when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica. In Italian it is , in French , in Sardinian , and in Piedmontese . also referred to as the Kingdom of Savoy-S ...

and one of the two houses of its bicameral parliament, the other being the

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. It was set up in 1848 following the fusion of the Savoyard states. It became the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy upon the

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in 1861. It is the direct ancestor of the present

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. Its name was a reference to the Napoleonic Subalpine Republic.

Bibliography

* Francesco Bartolotta (ed), ''Parlamenti e governi d'Italia dal 1848 al 1970'', Roma, Vito Bianco Ed., 1971. {{italy-hist-stub 1848 establishments in the Kingdom of Sardinia category:1861 disestablishments in Italy category:Defunct upper houses category:italian Parliament