Duchy of Milan (The British Ain't Coming)

The Duchy of Milan is a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire in northern Italy. It was first created in 1395, when it included twenty-six towns and the wide rural area of the middle Padan Plain east of the hills of Montferrat. It was reestablished in 1872 with its independence from Austria and invitation of to be King. It is wedged between Savoy to the west, Venice to the east, the Swiss Confederacy to the north, and separated from the Mediterranean by Genoa to the south.