with references to "Italy" replacing "Sardinia" instead. On the whole, the island became an even more marginal part of the Savoyard Kingdom, raising the so-called "Sardinian Question" pertaining to its difficult process of integration within a single national body: more specifically, Sardinians lost their former powers of taxation and autonomous representation in exchange for the Piedmontese parliament taking over legislative responsibility on the island, and some seats in the Congress. Most of the Sardinian unionists, including its leader Giovanni Siotto Pintor, would later come to regret it. The Fusion would not be able to improve the condition of the Sardinian notables, either: on the contrary, Sardinia's fusion into an Italian unitary state provoked, as a response, a marked increase in banditry and criminal activities against the central authorities. See also Similar acts, such as: The unification of the Kingdom of Naples with the Kingdom of Sicily in 1816 to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies The two British pairs of "Acts of Union": The Acts of Union 1707, which merged the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into a single Kingdom of Great Britain The Acts of Union 1800, which merged the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into a single United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The Nueva Planta decrees of 1707–1716, which merged the Crown of Castile and Crown of Aragon into a single Kingdom of Spain Various political unions in Scandinavia: Denmark–Norway Kalmar Union Sweden–Norway References Bibliography History of Sardinia House of Savoy Kingdom of Sardinia 1847 in the Kingdom of Sardinia 1847 in law