Republic of Crema
{{Infobox country
| native_name = {{native name|lmo|Republega Cremasca}}
| conventional_long_name = Republic of Crema
| common_name = Crema
| common_languages = Lombard
| era = French Revolutionary Wars
| status = Sister Republic
| empire = the First French Republic
| status_text = Client state of France
| government_type = Republic
| year_start = 1797
| date_start = March 28
| year_end = 1797
| life_span = 1797
| event_end = Amalgamated Into the Cisalpine Republic
| date_end = July 10
| p1 = Domini di Terraferma
| flag_p1 = Flag of Republic of Venice (1659-1675).svg
| s1 = Cisalpine Republic
| flag_s1 = Flag of the Repubblica Cisalpina.svg
| flag =
| flag_type =
| image_flag = Flag of the Repubblica Cremasca.svg
| image_coat = Coat of arms of the Republic of Crema.svg
| capital = Crema
| national_motto =
| religion = Roman Catholicism
| today = Italy
}}
The Republic of Crema ({{langx|lmo|Republega Cremasca}}; {{langx|it|Repubblica Cremasca}}) was a revolutionary municipality{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=TBi1firo4q0C&q=crema+1797&pg=PA17 |title= Constitutions of the world from the late 18th century to the middle of 19th century|last= Dippel |first= Horst |date= 2010 |publisher= De Gruyter, Göttingen | access-date= July 25, 2017 |page= 17 |isbn= 9783598357343|language= italian}} in Lombardy, which was created when the French Army entered Crema on 28 March 1797. It ruled the local affairs of the city and its environs, which previously were a Venetian exclave in the Duchy of Milan. The municipality entered then into the Cisalpine Republic in July 1797.
History
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The city of Crema and its surroundings had been annexed by the Republic of Venice since 1449, and had been ruled by a Venetian podestà for more than three centuries. On 28 March 1797, a troop of French dragoons entered and occupied the city without facing any resistance{{cite web |url= http://www.comune.crema.cr.it/articolo/la-storia|title= The history of Crema|author= |website= Comune di Crema (official site of the municipality)|language= italian|access-date= July 25, 2017}} and arrested the last Venetian magistrate, the duke Zan Battista Contarini.{{cite web |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qaRDAQAAMAAJ&q=zan+battista+contarini+crema&pg=PA108 |title= Storia di Crema raccolta per Alemanio Fino dagli annali di M. Pietro Terni|last= Solera |first= Giovanni |date= 1845 |publisher= Ronchetti e Ferreri, Milan | access-date= July 25, 2017 |page= 108 |language= italian}}
A new municipality was formed to control the city, which was composed mostly of small landowners and local nobles. They proclaimed the new Republic of Crema, that had the control of the town and the territories previously belonging to the province of Crema.
The small revolutionary republic had a short life. Three months later, on 29 July 1797, its territory merged with the Cisalpine Republic and legally annexed to it on the base of the Treaty of Campo Formio, becoming part of the Adda department and later on the Alto Po one.
Nowadays, the territory of the former Republic of Crema goes from the municipality of Spino d'Adda (east) to the Castelleone one.
Flag and coat of arms
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The republic used a simple white flag with the coat of arms.
References
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