Adriatic question
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In the aftermath of the First World War, the Adriatic question or Adriatic problem concerned the fate of the territories along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea that formerly belonged to the Austr
The Trieste-Pula railway was deep in ethnically Croat territory
Italian irredentism
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Italian irredentism was a political movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Kingdom of Italy. It originated to promote the annexation of majority Italian-speaking territories whi
Adriatic question
…Empire. The roots of the dispute lay in the secret Treaty of London, signed during the war (26 April 1915), and in growing nationalism, especially Italian irredentism and Yugoslavism, which led ultimately to the creation of Yugoslavia. The question was a major barrier to agreement at the Paris Peace Conference, but…
The Monument to Dante in Trento. Trento and Trieste, the main goals of Italian irredentists, were annexed by Italy at the end of WW1.
Italian ethnic regions claimed in the 1930s: Green: Nice, Ticino, and Dalmatia; Red: Malta; Violet: Corsica Savoy and Corfu were claimed later.
Monument to Pasquale Paoli, the Corsican hero who made Italian the official language of his Corsican Republic in 1755
Giuseppe Garibaldi, a prominent Niçard Italian