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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 06:21:55 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   The Princedom of Pontecorvo was a short-lived client state of France during the Napoleonic Wars.

   Napoleon took it from the Papal State after becoming King of Italy, created it as a princedom and made one of his Imperial Marshals the Prince of Pontecorvo.

   The Marshal, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, was soon headhunted by the Swedish establishment to become Karl XIV Johan, the new King of Sweden, and gave up the princedom. His dynasty formally rules Sweden to this day.

   Pontecorvo today has a population of ~13000, the same size population as the bunch of towers on top of a shopping mall where I live.

   • Björn Lindström (bkhl@social.sdfeu.org)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 06:22:21 UTC Björn Lindström

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     @clacke he couldn't give up that neat coat though.

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   • valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 06:22:23 UTC valhalla

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     @clacke I've just checked¹ and in 1861 Pontecorvo already had ~9k inhabitants, and since then it didn't have a big growth like other Italian communes, so maybe it was at least already around this “big” in the time of the principate.

     Looks like a perfectly reasonable size for a mostly independent entity inside geographical Italy :D

     What? we're not in the 12th century or whereabouts? details :D

     ¹ it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontecor… (in Italian, but it's a graph)

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