Native Name: | Département des Apennins |
Conventional Long Name: | Department of Appenins |
Common Name: | Apennins |
Subdivision: | department |
Nation: | the First French Empire |
Year Start: | 1805 |
Event Start: | Annexation of the Ligurian Republic |
Date Start: | 4 June |
Year End: | 1815 |
Event End: | Congress of Vienna |
P1: | Ligurian Republic |
Flag P1: | Flag of Genoa.svg |
S1: | Kingdom of Sardinia |
Flag S1: | Flag of the Kingdom of Sardinia.svg |
Image Map Caption: | Administrative map of the Italian portion of the French Empire. |
Capital: | Chiavari |
Political Subdiv: | 3 Arrondissements |
Stat Year1: | 1812 |
Stat Area1: | 4160 |
Stat Pop1: | 213465 |
Today: | Italy |
Border S2: | no |
Border S1: | no |
Border P1: | no |
Apennins (in French a.pɛ.nɛ̃/) was a department of the First French Empire of 1805-1814 in present-day Italy. Named after the Apennine Mountains, it originated on 6 June 1805, after France had directly annexed the Ligurian Republic (formerly the Republic of Genoa) on 4 June 1805. Its capital was Chiavari.
Disbanded after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, the Congress of Vienna awarded the old territory of Genoa to the Kingdom of Sardinia (December 1814). The area of the former département forms parts of the Italian provinces of Genoa, La Spezia, Massa-Carrara and Parma.
100px|rightThe department was subdivided into the following arrondissements and cantons (situation in 1812):[1]
Its population in 1812 was 213,465, and its area was 416,000 hectares.[1]