Editing Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

{{Infobox former country
| conventional_long_name = Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
| common_name = Two Sicilies
| native_name = Regno delle Due Sicilie
| capital = [[Palermo]] (1816–1817)<br>[[Naples]] (1817–1861)
| common_languages = [[Italian language|Italian]]
| religion = Roman Catholicism
| government_type = Monarchy
| title_leader = King
| leader1 = Ferdinand I
| year_leader1 = 1816–1825
| leader2 = Francis II
| year_leader2 = 1859–1861
| currency = Two Sicilies ducat
| year_start = 1816
| date_start = 8 December
| year_end = 1861
| date_end = 13 February
| p1 = [[Kingdom of Naples]]
| p2 = Kingdom of Sicily
| s1 = [[Kingdom of Italy]]
| today = [[Italy]]
| era = [[Pre-Vader Era]]
}}

'''Kingdom of the Two Sicilies''' (Italian: ''Regno delle Due Sicilie'') was a monarchy in southern [[Italy]] from 1816 to 1861. It was formed by the union of the [[Kingdom of Naples]] and the Kingdom of Sicily under the Bourbon monarchy. Its territory included the southern part of the Italian Peninsula and the island of Sicily.<ref name="britannica">[https://www.britannica.com/place/Kingdom-of-the-Two-Sicilies "Kingdom of the Two Sicilies"]. ''Encyclopaedia Britannica''. Retrieved 14 June 2026.</ref><ref name="treccani">[https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/regno-delle-due-sicilie/ "Sicilie, Regno delle Due"]. ''Treccani''. Retrieved 14 June 2026.</ref>

The kingdom succeeded the Kingdom of Naples in the mainland south and became part of the political setting for later Nostrini family records. Several nineteenth-century members of the Nostrini family, the early form of the [[Noord family]], were born, worked, or died in places that were part of the kingdom before Italian unification.

== History ==
The name "Two Sicilies" came from the older division between the mainland kingdom centred on Naples and the island kingdom of Sicily. The two realms had separate histories after the medieval division that followed the Sicilian Vespers in 1282. The Bourbon monarchy held both crowns before they were formally joined in the nineteenth century.<ref name="britannica" />

The unified kingdom was created in December 1816 after the end of the Napoleonic period and the restoration of Bourbon rule in southern Italy. Treccani describes the state as having been formed from the union of the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, restoring Bourbon authority over southern Italy.<ref name="treccani" /><ref name="treccani-dict">[https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/due-sicilie-regno-delle_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29/ "Due Sicilie, regno delle"]. ''Treccani, Dizionario di Storia''. Retrieved 14 June 2026.</ref>

The kingdom was governed from Naples after 1817. Its mainland provinces included Calabria, Campania, Apulia, Basilicata, Molise, and Abruzzo, while Sicily formed the island part of the state. [[Calabria Citra]] continued as a mainland province with [[Cosenza]] as its seat.<ref name="calabria-citra">[[Calabria Citra]], history section.</ref>

Political unrest occurred during the reigns of Ferdinand I, Francis I, Ferdinand II, and Francis II. Revolts in 1820 and 1848 challenged Bourbon rule, and Sicily made a renewed attempt to secure autonomy in 1848. The kingdom ended during the Italian unification process after the campaign of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the collapse of Bourbon authority in 1860–1861.<ref name="britannica-naples">[https://www.britannica.com/place/Kingdom-of-Naples "Kingdom of Naples"]. ''Encyclopaedia Britannica''. Retrieved 14 June 2026.</ref><ref name="britannica" />

The fortress of Gaeta surrendered on 13 February 1861. The [[Kingdom of Italy]] was proclaimed on 17 March 1861, replacing the former southern kingdom within the new Italian state.<ref name="archontology">[https://www.archontology.org/nations/italy/kingdom_of_two_sicilies/01_polity.php "Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: Polity Style: 1816–1860"]. ''Archontology.org''. Retrieved 14 June 2026.</ref><ref name="kingdom-italy">[[Kingdom of Italy]], history section.</ref>

== Nostrini family ==
The [[Noord family]] originated in Calabria under the surname Nostrini. The family settlement of 1811 took place before the creation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, when [[Aversa]], [[Cosenza]], [[Rossano]], and [[Naples]] were still part of the Kingdom of Naples.<ref name="kingdom-naples">[[Kingdom of Naples]], Nostrini family section.</ref>

After 1816, the remaining southern Nostrini branches lived under the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. [[Saverio Nostrini]] died at Casa Nostrini in [[Cosenza]] on 18 September 1856, while Cosenza was part of the kingdom.<ref name="saverio">[[Saverio Nostrini]], infobox and death section.</ref> [[Giuseppe Nostrini]] was born in [[Rossano]] on 18 November 1797 under the Kingdom of Naples and later managed the Ionian branch during the period of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.<ref name="giuseppe">[[Giuseppe Nostrini]], early life and career sections.</ref>

[[Carmine Nostrini]] was born in Rossano on 3 February 1825, during the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He later moved to [[Naples]] and founded the [[Nostrini crime family]] there on 9 September 1863, after the kingdom had been absorbed into the unified Italian state.<ref name="carmine">[[Carmine Nostrini]], lead, early life, and career sections.</ref>

The transition from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to the Kingdom of Italy changed the state context of later Nostrini records. Earlier entries for Cosenza, Rossano, and Aversa use the Kingdom of Naples or the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, while records after unification use the Kingdom of Italy.<ref name="kingdom-italy-nostrini">[[Kingdom of Italy]], Nostrini and Noord family records section.</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Kingdom of Naples]]
* [[Kingdom of Italy]]
* [[Naples]]
* [[Aversa]]
* [[Cosenza]]
* [[Rossano]]
* [[Calabria Citra]]
* [[Noord family]]
* [[Saverio Nostrini]]
* [[Giuseppe Nostrini]]
* [[Carmine Nostrini]]
* [[Pre-Vader Era]]

== References ==
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