Campo-Formio, a village of Northern Italy, 6 miles SW. of Udine, is celebrated for the treaty of peace here concluded on 17th October 1797 between Austria and the French Republic, whose army, under Bonaparte, after subjugating Italy (1796), had crossed the Noric Alps, and threatened Vienna. Austria ceded the Netherlands, Milan, and Mantua, and received as compensation Istria, Dalmatia, and the left bank of the Adige, with the capital, Venice; while France took the remaining territory of Venice, its possessions in Albania, and the Ionian Islands.
Campo-Formio
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 688
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