Gênes
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Gênes is the name of a département of the First French Empire in present Italy. It was named after the city Genoa. It was formed in 1805, when Napoleon Bonaparte occupied the Republic of Genoa. Its capital was Genoa. It was divided into the arrondissements of Genoa, Bobbio, Novi Ligure, Tortona and Voghera. It was disbanded after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814. Its territory is presently divided over the Italian provinces Genoa, Piacenza, Alessandria and Pavia.
The 44 annexed départements: Alpes-Maritimes | Apennins | Arno | Bouches-de-l'Elbe | Bouches-de-l'Escaut | Bouches-de-l'Yssel | Bouches-de-la-Meuse | Bouches-du-Rhin | Bouches-du-Weser | Deux-Nèthes | Doire | Dyle | Ems-Occidental | Ems-Oriental | Ems-Supérieur | Escaut | Forêts | Frise | Gênes | Jemmape | Léman | Lippe | Lys | Marengo | Méditerranée | Meuse-Inférieure | Mont-Blanc | Mont-Tonnerre | Montenotte | Ombrone | Ourthe | Pô | Rhin-et-Moselle | Roer | Rome | Sambre-et-Meuse | Sarre | Sésia | Simplon | Stura | Taro | Trasimène | Yssel-Supérieur | Zuyderzée | (from the Low Countries, Germany, Italy, Switzerland)
