Renaissance Italy comprised fifteen separate states, including the Papal State. It would take many years before these would eventually form modern Italy. Only with the process of the Risorgimento did this collection of warring cities become a unified political state. However, it was still not a nation.
Location in Grand Isle County and the state of Vermont. Alburgh is a village within the town of the same name in Grand Isle County, Vermont, United States. The population was 488 at the 2000 census. The town's name came from the person primarily responsible for chartering the community, Ira Allen.
Alburgh was charted February 23, 1781, by Ira Allen and 64 others. Allen paid for the charting, and the name of the town is probably derived from Allensburgh. In 1781 Allen was part of the commission that negotiated the Vermont-New York boundary, placing the Alburgh Tongue in Vermont.