italian unification

With a PoD after the Congress of Vienna, make Albania (either part or all of it) part of Italian unification. I'm not too well versed in this section of history, but I do know there were Venetian colonies along the coast, as well as a sizeable exile population in the Mezzogiorno.

How would the historical trajectory of certain Italian states, specifically the Duchies of Parma-Piacenza, Modena-Reggio, and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, have differed if the Italian Unification had failed? These entities were reinstated post-Napoleon but were later dissolved during the...

Art was created by u/ElectricSquid7 on Reddit What if during the 18th or 19th Century Switzerland unified Italy into the Italian Confederation?

I love alternate unifications of Italy, but based on my research, it seems that next to the Savoyard state, the only Italian polity both willing and able to unify Italy was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, led by Leopold II of Habsburg-Tuscany (a local Italian branch of the Habsburgs, much like the...

Assuming Joachim Murat somehow endears himself to the Coalition enough for them to let him keep his throne in Naples, could his descendants unify Italy under their leadership when the First War of Independence breaks out? I expect them to give genuine support to the 1848 revolutionaries instead...

Garibaldi was a great general but he was always snubbed by the Kingdom of Sardinia because he was a republican,he was first exiled and even when he later wanted to help the Sardinians unite Italy he was sent to fight on secondary fronts,what would have happened instead if he had been a...

In 1858 the Plombières Accords were signed between France and the Kingdom of Sardinia,peved that if Sardinia was attacked by Austria, France would intervene,it would annex the French-speaking regions of Nice and Savoy from the Kingdom of Sardinia,there would then be a new arrangement of...

IOTL, Leopoldo was the third son of Francis I of the Two Sicilies. His eldest brother Ferdinand became Ferdinand II and their middle brother, Charles, married morgantically and renounced his right to the throne. Leopold, as Count of Syracuse, enacted a number of reforms in Sicily that made him...

Hi, following the continuous questions rising around in the forum about Italian unification, I would like to open a discussion about the likelihood of a different compromise, Austria recognizes its Italian holdings as an equal partner instead of Hungary. The Habsburg relatives of the Emilian...

Milan is a wealthy, industrial part of Italy that was powerful during the Renaissance. However, with the rise of the hapsburgs, it fell into the spaniosh branch before being ceded to the Austrians and then getting Napoleoned (which I promise is a very real technical term for "got conquered by an...

Hi everyone! I have seen some threads popping up recently, regarding alternate Italian unification, or non-unification scenarios. Since this is the topic that interests me the most, I thought it was worth it to try and make a comprehensive discussion thread on the topic. Should you choose to...

Background Information: The Italian Unification (1848-1871) or the Risorgimento was the merging of different states in the Italian Peninsula into The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) which would go on to be a colonial empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_unification But what if that...

Introduction By Andronico Barbero At the present day, the Kingdom of the Italians (as the Greater Italian Federation is most commonly known) is one of the most fascinating and self-contradictory countries of the world. A constitutional monarchy made up of Kingdoms, Republics, Free Cities and...

Hello folks! As of recently, both as a result of discussions here and personal research, I have been learning a decent amount of things about the process of Italian unification. This led to the following idea. The POD is on September 16, 1822: little Victor Emmanuel dies in the fire of his...

Long time lurker, first time TL poster. For a quick description of what I'm hoping to accomplish is a TL where Reconstruction is truly radical and led by two generals in the White House. While I'm no expert in the Civil War, I've been sure to research at the very least the basics of the...

What would it take for Italy to become a major military power after it unifies to become a great power on the scale of France, Britain or the German Empire? Your only restriction is after the Napoleonic Wars. Could Sardinia/Sardinia-Piedmont emerge as a sort of Prussia of Italy unifying it and...

With the Lombard invasion of Italy in 568, the Italian Peninsula was divided into separate polities for a very long time. It would not be reunited until 1870. What's the earliest that Italy could have unified again?

In 1816 King Ferdinand of Naples and Sicily united the two Kingdoms into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which in practice meant suppressing the autonomy the Kingdom of Sicily had enjoyed until then, as well as the 1821 Sicilian Constitution. So, what if instead he died before then, leading to...

What if Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of Italy's unification (and an ardent anticlericalist), had not hesitated to order his republican army to fire on Papal and Piedmontese troops at the Battle (more accurately a skirmish) of Aspromonte in august 1862, thus effectively declaring war and splitting...

Sardinia had been a territory of the Kingdom of Aragon since 1323, and, with the union of Aragon with Castile in 1469, part of the new kingdom of Spain. During the period of Aragonese and later Spanish rule, Sardinian culture adopted some new Spanish traditions and customs, bringing the island...