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Italian EmpireThe empire ordinarily associated with geographical Italy is the Roman Empire, but the History of Italy, once it had been united in the Risorgimento, saw added two large overseas dominions: Libya and Italian Somaliland (now Somalia). in pursuit of a larger Italian Empire, Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1936 was a preamble to World War II. Before the unification, both Venice in the Adriatic and Aegean, and Genoa in the Tyrrhenian sea and the western Mediterranean, had coastal mercantile colonies. In the decorative arts, the phrase "Italian Empire" denotes the international Neoclassicism that was the official taste of the Napoleonic empire, a style that was written about by Mario Praz and which survived longer in 19th-century Italy than in most of Europe. United Italy In 1870, the many different nations that made up the Italian peninsula, like Naples and the Papal States, came together and formed Italy as we know it today. Only 19 years after this union Italy began to gain colonies overseas. Italy had appeared late in the Scramble for Africa, and it was to have its empire lost in at the nation's defeat in World War II. The spoils of WWII mainly contributed to the largest empire in history; the British Empire.
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