Kingdom of Italy

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The Kingdom of Italy was a unitary state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia, was proclaimed King of Italy, until 18 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June, resulting in the establishment of the modern Italian Republic. The kingdom was established through the unification of several states over a decades-long process, called the Risorgimento. That process was influenced by House of Savoy-ruled Sardinia, which was one of Italy's legal predecessor states. In 1866, the Third Italian War of Independence broke out; it was part of the Italo-Prussian Alliance against the Austrian Empire. Upon victory, Italy received Veneto. Italian troops captured Rome in 1870, ending the more than one thousand years of Papal temporal power. In the last two decades of the 19th century, Italy developed into a colonial power, resulting to the establishment of the Italian Empire in 1882; that year...

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