List of wars involving Italy
This list includes wars and conflicts involving Italy since the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy on 17 March 1861, but does not include wars fought by the historic states of Italy. The result of these conflicts follows this legend:
- Italian victory
- Italian defeat
- Another result (e.g., a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result unknown or indecisive)
- Ongoing conflict
Italian Wars of Unification
The Risorgimento movement emerged to unite Italy in the 19th century. Piedmont-Sardinia took the lead in a series of wars to liberate Italy from foreign control. Following three Wars of Italian Independence against the Habsburg Austrians in the north, the Expedition of the Thousand against the Spanish bourbons in the south, and the Capture of Rome, the unification of the country was completed by 1870.
Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | ||||
1866 | 1866 | Third Italian War of Independence | Italian victory: | ||
1870 | 1870 | Capture of Rome | Italian victory, Debellation of the Papal States. |
Kingdom of Italy
Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | ||||
1885 | 1895 | Eritrean War[1] | Italian victory, establishment of Italian Eritrea. | ||
1889 | 1920 | Pacification of Somalia[2] | Various rebels Dervish State |
Italian victory, consolidation of Italian Somaliland. | |
1890 | 1894 | Mahdist War | Italian victory All Sudanese invasions repulsed Italians take Kassala | ||
1895 | 1896 | First Italo-Ethiopian War | Ethiopian victory, Treaty of Addis Ababa:
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1899 | 1901 | Boxer Rebellion |
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Allied victory, Boxer Protocol:
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1902 | 1903 | Venezuelan naval blockade | Compromise
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1911 | 1912 | Italo-Turkish War | Italian victory:
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1914 | 1918 | World War I: |
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Italian victory:
Russia pulls out in 1917
Creation of League of Nations | |
1918 | 1920 | Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War | Bolshevik victory:
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1918 | 1923 | Occupation of Constantinople | Allied victory
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1920 | 1920 | Vlora War | Albanian victory, Italy withdraws from Albania. | ||
1920 | 1920 | Bloody Christmas | Italian victory:
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1923 | 1932 | Pacification of Libya | Italian victory:
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1924 | 1927 | Pacification of Italian Somaliland | Somali rebels | Italian victory:
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1924 | 1940 | Italian conquest of the Horn of Africa | Italian victory:
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1935 | 1936 | Second Italo-Abyssinian War | Italian victory:
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1936 | 1939 | Spanish Civil War |
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Nationalist victory:
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1939 | 1939 | Invasion of Albania | Italian victory, Italian occupation of Albania. | ||
1939 | 1945 | World War II/Italian Civil War | Axis Powers
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The Allies
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Allied victory:
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Italian Republic (1946-present)
See also
References
- ↑ Indro Montanelli, Storia d'Italia, vol. 6 1861 - 1919, RCS Libri S.p.A., 2006
- ↑ Pacification of Somalia.
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