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National flag: Kingdom of Italy

Regno d'Italia

Italy
Kingdom of Italy

The Kingdom of Italy was a state forged in 1861 by the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia; it existed until 1946 when the Italians opted for a republican constitution. The Kingdom was the first Italian state to include the entire Italian Peninsula since the fall of the Roman Empire.

During the time of the regime of the National Fascist Party under Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from 1922 to his ousting in 1943, the kingdom and its territorial possessions were often called by nationalists and Fascists the 'Italian Empire' or the 'New Roman Empire', but these were not used officially. The name often given by historians to the Kingdom of Italy during the rule of Mussolini and the Fascists is Fascist Italy.

Under Fascism, the Kingdom allied with Nazi Germany in World War II until 1943. In the remaining two years of World War II, the Kingdom of Italy switched sides to the Allies after ousting Mussolini as Prime Minister and banned the Fascist party. The remnant Fascist state that continued fighting against the Allies was a puppet state of Nazi Germany, the 'Italian Social Republic', which continued to be led by Mussolini and his loyalist Fascists in northern Italy.

Shortly after the war, civil discontent led to a referendum in 1946 on whether Italy would remain a monarchy or become a republic. Italians decided to abandon the monarchy and form the Italian Republic, which is the present form of Italy today.

camouflage patterns of the Kingdom of Italy

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