House of Savoy ||This article includes a list of references, but
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citations. (October 2012)| |Country||Albania, Croatia, Ethiopia,
France, Italy, Spain| |Final sovereign||Umberto II|
|Dissolution||12 June 1946| (extinct since 1996) (extinct since
1209) The House of Savoy (Italian: Casa di Savoia) was formed in
the early 11th century in the historical Savoy region. Through
gradual expansion, it grew from ruling a small county in that
region to eventually rule—through its branch Savoy-Carignano—the
Kingdom of Italy from 1861 until the end of World War II. The
House of Savoy ruled unified Italy for 85 years with Victor
Emmanuel II, Umberto I, Victor Emmanuel III, and Umberto II as
monarchs. The last monarch ruled for a few weeks before being
overthrown by a Constitutional Referendum, and a new republic
was then proclaimed. The House of Savoy emerged, along with the
free communes of Switzerland, in what is now called Switzerland.
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