Military history of Italy
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The military history of Italy chronicles a vast time period, lasting from the military conflicts fought by the ancient peoples of Italy, most notably the conquest of the Mediterranean world by the anc
Etruscan funerary urn crowned with the sculpture of a woman and a front-panel relief showing two warriors fighting, polychrome terracotta, c. 150 BCE
An Etruscan bronze helmet
Greaves belonging to the Golasecca culture found in Sesto Calende
Celtic helmet from the 3rd century BC in bronze
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