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Written by NeandertalMan
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Saturday, 13 February 2010 18:44 |
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From Around Naples, an article by Jeff Matthews.
"The Risorgimento is the name given to the 19th-century movement in Italy to unite the entire Italian peninsula into a single nation. The term covers philosophy, politics, social unrest and military events in Italy from the early 1800s through the last of the wars of unification, including Italian participation in WWI, which added Trieste and Trento to the nation. The most striking military episode was Garibaldi’s conquest of the South, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1860, an event that led to the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. Psychologically, however, Italy was not really unified until her “natural” capital, Rome, was restored, which took place in September, 1870..."
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