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My claim for the Pax Commonwealth.
I plan it in a way that I have a rival or two on the same penisula.
At first I wanted to claim the whole not-Italy but then I realized I'd actually count as a great power, then.
:lol

EDIT:
Further info from just this claim alone.
Area: 24265 square miles
Population: 3.44 million (compared with 1700s Italy, so it's very densely populated)