The wild idea of ​​independence through the regional body

Lombardy region now contains not only a part of the Duchy of Milan (Another portion today is the Swiss Ticino), MA 2 large Venetian provinces, ie Bergamo and Brescia, remained Venetian for almost the duration of the existence of the Duchy, and fully Venetian or more less than Padua or Vicenza in international law. Yet Mantua was an independent state remained so for centuries.
To complete the picture, The current Lombardy was born in 1815 from the pair of the Duchy of Milan (without the Ticino) to the sovereignty of Venice (formerly the Venetian Republic) when they were both territory “possessions” Habsburg Lorraine and the opinion of the people counted for nothing yet (subsequently they had the right to approve these operations, the so-called right to “self-government”) . So while the Duchy of Milan was extinct, The Venetian Republic was transformed into Lombardy-Veneto, And Venice remained capital. This kingdom was then conquered by others and given to Italy first in 1859 (about the current region Lombardia” ) and then in 1866 (The region Veneto, including as the millennia Friuli Venezia coast) . then