{
  "g": "h,empire,europe",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Duchy of Milan",
  "now": "italy",
  "years": "1395–1796",
  "id": "milan",
  "index": "c/italy:1395",
  "title": "Flag of the Duchy of Milan",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "gold",
      "hex": "#ffcc00",
      "note": "Imperial canton."
    },
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "note": "Visconti canton."
    },
    {
      "color": "black",
      "hex": "#000000",
      "note": "Imperial eagle."
    },
    {
      "color": "blue",
      "hex": "#4a90d9",
      "note": "Biscione (serpent)."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Duchy of Milan (1395–1796) was a major north-Italian state ruled successively by the Visconti, Sforza, Spanish Habsburgs, and Austrian Habsburgs\n - **Construction:** a quartered banner combining the **imperial eagle** (black on gold, sable on or) — marking HRE fief status — with the **Visconti biscione** (a blue serpent consuming a child, argent on azure), the dynastic emblem of the first Milanese ruling house\n - The biscione survives today on the Milan city coat of arms and the Alfa Romeo logo",
  "flag": "empires/milan.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Duchy of Milan",
    "officialName": "Ducato di Milano",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- The biscione is said to represent a Saracen defeated by a crusading Visconti ancestor, though modern scholars dispute the legend\n - Home to Leonardo da Vinci for much of his career under Sforza and French rule\n - Passed to the Habsburgs by the 1714 Treaty of Rastatt; became part of unified Italy in 1861",
  "_name": "Duchy of Milan",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "milan"
}