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 4 8 4 Readings in European History Venice and most of its territory ceded to Austria. Duke of Modena in- demnified in Germany. Tuscany given to duke of Parma, who belonged to the Spanish royal family. Cession of the left bank of the Rhine to France. possess in full sovereignty and proprietary right the coun- tries enumerated below, to wit : Istria, Dalmatia, and the islands of the Adriatic, formerly belonging to Venice, de- pendent upon them ; the mouths of the Cattaro, the city of Venice, the Lagunes, and the territory included between the hereditary states of his Majesty the emperor and king, the Adriatic Sea, and the Adige from the point where it leaves Tyrol to that where it flows into the Adriatic, the channel of the Adige forming the boundary line. . . . IV. Article XVIII of the Treaty of Campo-Formio is likewise renewed, inasmuch as his Majesty the emperor and king agrees to cede to the duke of Modena, as an indemnity for the territory which this prince and his heirs possessed in Italy, the Breisgau, which he shall hold upon the same conditions as those upon which he held Modena. V. It is further agreed that his Royal Highness the grand duke of Tuscany shall renounce for himself, his successors, or possible claimants, the grand duchy of Tuscany and that part of the island of Elba belonging to it, as well as all rights and titles resulting from the possession of the said states, which shall hereafter be held in full sovereignty and propri- etary right by his Royal Highness the infante duke of Parma. The grand duke shall receive a complete and full indemnity in Germany for the loss of his states in Italy. . . . VI. His Majesty the emperor and king consents not only on his part but upon the part of the German empire that the French republic shall hereafter possess in full sovereignty and proprietary right the territories and domains lying on the left bank of the Rhine and forming a part of the Ger- man empire, so that, in conformity with the concessions granted by the deputation of the empire at the Congress of Rastadt and approved by the emperor, the channel of the Rhine shall hereafter form the boundary between the French republic and the German empire, from that point where the Rhine leaves Helvetian territory to the point where it reaches Batavian territory. In view of this the French republic form- ally renounces all possessions whatsoever upon the right bank of the Rhine and agrees to restore to their owners the