Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
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The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was a kingdom in southern Italy from 1816 until 1861. It was created by Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, after the Congress of Vienna, by uniting the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples, which had been ruled by Joseph Bonaparte during the reign of Napoleon.
The capital of the kingdom was Naples and Roman Catholicism was the state religion. The House of Bourbon was the ruling dynasty.
In 1861, Giuseppe Garabaldi and his men, known as red shirts, captured Sicily then crossed the Strait of Messina and captured Naples. It then joined the Kingdom of Italy.
