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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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How Italy Unified: The Exact Moment When Italy Became a Country
The question when did Italy became a country isn’t as simple as a single date. Unlike many nations forged by treaties or conquests, Italy’s birth was the...
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When Italy Was Formed: The Blood, Betrayal, and Birth of a Nation
The birth of modern Italy wasn’t inevitable. In 1815, the Congress of Vienna had carved the peninsula into a mess of Austrian-controlled duchies, papal...