The Principality of Seborga claims its independence from the Italian state since 954, when the territory of Seborga was donated by the Count of Ventimiglia to the Benedictine monks. In 1729 the monks ceded the Principality to Vittorio Amedeo II di Savoia.
The inhabitants of Seborga, however, have never recognized the validity of this document, thus not accepting the annexation first to the Kingdom of Sardinia and then, from 1946, to the Italian State. A strong drive towards independence came in the second post-war period thanks to Giorgio Carbone, a passionate inhabitant of Seborga and history scholar convinced of the validity of the theory of independence.
SOURCE: https://www.visititaly.eu/
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