The Campagna and Marittima Province (

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''Campaniæ Maritimæque Provincia'', Italian ''Provincia di Campagna e Marittima'') was one of the seven

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s of the

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from the 12th century to the end of the 18th. The province was established by

Pope Innocent III Pope Innocent III ( la, Innocentius III; 1160 or 1161 – 16 July 1216), born Lotario dei Conti di Segni (anglicized as Lothar of Segni), was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1198 to his death in 16 ...

in the year 1198, with

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as its capital. Innocent's aim was to counter atemmpts to achieve self-government in some of the towns in the south of his domains, such as

Alatri Alatri ( la, Aletrium) is an Italian town and '' comune'' of the province of Frosinone in the region of Lazio, with c. 30,000 inhabitants. An ancient city of the Hernici,Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hernici". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ...

Ferentino Ferentino is a town and ''comune'' in Italy, in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, southeast of Rome. It is situated on a hill above sea level, in the Monti Ernici area. History ''Ferentinum'' was a town of the Hernici; it was captured from th ...

, Velletri and

Terracina Terracina is an Italian city and '' comune'' of the province of Latina, located on the coast southeast of Rome on the Via Appia ( by rail). The site has been continuously occupied since antiquity. History Ancient times Terracina appears in anc ...

, by installing a

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at Ferentino. Even before that the "Province of the Roman Campagna and Marittima Province' was part of the

Patrimony of St Peter The Patrimony of Saint Peter ( la, Patrimonium Sancti Petri) originally designated the landed possessions and revenues of various kinds that belonged to the apostolic Holy See (the Pope) i.e. the "Church of Saint Peter" in Rome, by virtue of the ...

. In 1357, the establishment of the province was confirmed by the ''

Constitutiones Sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ The Constitutiones Sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ ( en, Constitutions of the Holy Mother Church), informally known as the Constitutiones Aegidianae (English: ''Egidian Constitutions'', Italian: ''Costituzioni egidiane''), were six books of law which fo ...

''. The province was administered by a class of feudal 'Roman barons'.Peter Partner, ''Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559: a portrait of a society'' (1980), p. 65: "The 'Roman barons' were the feudal class of the Roman area, or more exactly the feudal class of the papal provinces of the Patrimony of St Peter in Tuscany, of Campagna and the Maritime Province, of Sabina or part of it..."

Marittima e Campagna

Marittima e Campagna was a

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(IV Legation) from 1850 until 1860, when it was annexed by the

Kingdom of Sardinia The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: , or when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica. In Italian it is , in French , in Sardinian , and in Piedmontese . also referred to as the Kingdom of Savoy-S ...

as part of the

reunification of Italy The unification of Italy ( it, Unità d'Italia ), also known as the ''Risorgimento'' (, ; ), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single ...

. It covered a slightly larger area than the old Campagna and Marittima province.

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