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A colonial empire is a collective of territories (often called colonies), either contiguous with the imperial center or located overseas, settled by the population of a certain state and governed by that state.
- British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies,...
- French colonial empire
The French colonial empire (French: Empire colonial...
- British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Un impero coloniale è un insieme di territori, detti colonie, controllati da uno Stato, spesso lontano rispetto alle colonie, che ne sfrutta le risorse, ne amministra il territorio politicamente ed economicamente e lo occupa militarmente. Prima dell'espansione delle prime potenze europee moderne, altri imperi avevano conquistato e ...
- Background and Pre-Unification Era
- Scramble For An Empire
- World War I and Aftermath
- Fascism and The Italian Empire
- World War II
- End of The Empire
Imperialism in Italy dates back to ancient Rome, and the Latin notion of mare nostrum ("Our Sea", referring to the Mediterranean) has historically been the basis for Italian imperialism, especially during the fascist era. During the Middle Ages and the modern period, the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa controlled networks of "colonies"...
Once unified as a nation-state in the late 19th century, Italy intended to compete with the other European powers for the new age of European colonial expansion. It saw its interests in the Mediterranean and in the Horn of Africa, a region yet to be colonized and with access to the ocean. Italy had arrived late to the colonial race and its status a...
In 1914 Italy remained neutral and did not join its ally Germany in World War I. The Allies made promises and in 1915 Italy joined them. It was promised territorial spoilsmainly from Austria and Turkey. Prior to direct intervention in World War I, Italy occupied the Albanian port of Vlorë in December 1914. In the fall of 1916, Italy started to occu...
In 1922, the leader of the Italian fascist movement, Benito Mussolini, became Prime Minister and dictator. Mussolini resolved the question of sovereignty over the Dodecanese at the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which formalized Italian administration of both Libya and the Dodecanese Islands, in return for a payment to Turkey, the successor state to the ...
Mussolini entered World War II in June 1940 on the side of Adolf Hitler with plans to enlarge Italy's territorial holdings. He had designs on an area of western Yugoslavia, southern France, Corsica, Malta, Tunisia, part of Algeria, an Atlantic port in Morocco, French Somalilandand British-controlled Egypt and Sudan. On 10 June 1940, Mussolini decla...
By the autumn of 1943, the Italian Empire and all dreams of an Imperial Italy effectively came to an end. On 7 May, the surrender of Axis forces in Tunisia and other near continuous Italian reversals, led King Victor Emmanuel III to plan the removal of Mussolini. Following the Invasion of Sicily, all support for Mussolini evaporated. A meeting of t...
Les empires coloniaux sont des ensembles de territoires que des États, disposant d'importantes forces militaires terrestres et navales, se sont appropriés au cours d'un processus qui a fini par embrasser la quasi-totalité du globe. La notion d'empire territorial en est le soubassement, elle remonte aux premières grandes civilisations de l'Histoire.
1 Storia. 1.1 Le esplorazioni e le prime colonie nelle Americhe. 1.2 L'espansione in Africa e gli scontri con gli inglesi. 1.3 Il rafforzamento tra il XIX e XX secolo. 1.4 La seconda guerra mondiale, la decolonizzazione e la fine. 2 Possedimenti principali. 3 Demografia. 3.1 Popolazione tra il 1919 e il 1940. 3.2 Coloni francesi. 4 Note.
The German colonial empire (German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified in 1871, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck .
