Campo Formio

(Italian ˈkampo ˈfɔrmjo)

(Placename) a village in NE Italy, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia: scene of the signing of a treaty in 1797 that ended the war between revolutionary France and Austria. Modern name: Campoformido

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References in classic literature

If not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of the new Campo Formio are to be drawn up."

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Although he never won a decisive victory--at Rivoli he came close-Napoleon exceeded the expectations of his masters in Paris and formed sister republics in northern Italy in the aftermath of the Treaty of Campo Formio.

Napoleon in Italy: The Sieges of Mantua, 1796-1799

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