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
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
Fourth Shore
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The Fourth Shore, or Italian North Africa was the name created by Benito Mussolini to refer to the Mediterranean shore of coastal colonial Italian Libya and, during World War II, Axis-occupied Tunisia
Italian irredentism
…and Italy claimed it. Libya, (only Tripolitania and coastal Cirenaica) these territories were considered part of metropolitan Italy since 1939 in the Fourth Shore with the Tripoli Province, Misurata Province, Benghazi Province and Derna Province. There were plans to Italianize the territories and make Italians…
The Fourth Shore (in orange color in northern Libya), the southern part of Greater Italy, an Italian Fascist project to expand Italy's borders.
Administrative subdivision of Italian Libya