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Victor Amadeus III

King of Sardinia from 1773 to 1796

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 18, 2026
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Victor Amadeus III was King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from 20 February 1773 to his death in 1796. Although he was politically conservative, he carried out numerous administrative reforms until he declared war on Revolutionary France in 1792. He was the father of the last three mainline kings of Sardinia.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Victor Amadeus III” as king of Sardinia from 1773 to 1796. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1773, 1796, 1792—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Victor, Amadeus and King can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as king of Sardinia from 1773 to 1796. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1773, 1796 and 1792.

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This entry incorporates text from “Victor Amadeus III” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.