Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of Italy.

A country located in the Mediterranean, noted for being the birthplace of the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, and pizza.

Italy participated in both WWI and WWII. It joined WWI as a Entente power in 1915. It joined WWII first as an Axis power in 1939, and an Allied power in 1943.

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• Greater Syracuse (a rough draft TL)
• Syracuse as a democratic superpower ?
• Gelo of Syracuse as leader of anti-Persian alliance ?
• Plausibility check: Hellenised Italy ?
• Etruscan language survival
• Roman Empire PODs
• Vandal Corsica and Sardinia
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• Justinian's conquest of Italy lasts longer
• WI the Fatimids conquered Italy instead ?
• The Magyars of the Po
• Medieval Venice questions
• The Papal Theocracy of Italy
• Plausibility check: A (Norman) Sicilian Empire ?
• WI the lands of Matilda of Canossa stay united ?
• Challenge: Habsburg Kingdom of Italy ?
• Muslims conquer Italy
• Ottomans in Italy
• Challenge: Get an Ottoman Italy
• Challenge: Surviving Emirate of Sicily
• Challenge: Surviving Republic of Venice
• Venice being defeated and becoming an Ottoman vassal ?
• Challenge: San Marino unites Italy with a POD after the fall of the Roman Empire
• Italian-centered Holy Roman Empire
• The Roman Empire of Italian Nation
• A Protestant Italy
• WI Emmanuel Philibert (the Duke of Savoy) died at the Battle of St. Quentin ?
• Challenge: Kingdom of the Two Sicilies unites Italy
• Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia as King of Spain
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• Greece or Italy World Super Power
• The Strongest Italy I Could Manage
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• A more fractured Italy
• Divided Italy
• AH Challenge: Preventing Italian unification
• Reverse Italian and German unifications
• Challenge: Italian City States today
• WI: The Sforza State survives
• What is needed for Italy to break apart following unification?
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• Plausibility check: Napoleon creating a united Italy ?
• Challenge: The Papal States unite Italy!
• Liberal Germany, Independent Hungary, United Italy, 1848
• Question: How early can a united Italy exist?
• Earliest possible united Italy?
• Challenge: The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies unite Italy
• Challenge: Germany, Italy unfiied countries before Britain, France
• Challenge: San Marino unites Italy
• An earlier unified Italy
• WI Austria had won the Second Italian War ?
• Earlier Italian Unification (1)
• Earlier Italian Unification (2)
• Preventing Italian unification
• Challenge: San Marino unites Italy with a POD after the fall of the Roman Empire
• Maximilian von Habsburg and Italy
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• Italy enters the Franco-Prussian War
• Italy invades Corsica 1871
• (Byron Lives) Alternate Italian Situation
• A Prussian modeled Italian Army
• WI Napoleon was an Italian ?
• WI Italian troops occupy Vatican at 1878 ?
• Strongest possible Italy with a post-1840s POD
• Bunch of 19th century Italy PODs
• WI: An Austrian Queen for Umberto I
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• Italian America
• Italian victory at Adwa
• Plausibility check : Can Italy win the First Italo-Ethiopian war ?
• Italian North America: 1789
• Italy doesn't take Libya
• No Italo-Turkish War of 1911
• WI, instead of invading Ethiopia from Eritrea they instead making a landing on the other shore of the Red Sea ?
• Italians exploit Ottoman naval inferiority and defeat the Ottoman Navy in 1912
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• World War I PODs
• Italy joins Central Powers, 1915
• Italy on the Central powers' side: CP victory?
• Italy in the Central Powers
• Plausibility check: Could Italy occupy Corsica ?
• Italy stays with Central Powers 1914
• Italy in the Central Powers
• Romania and Italy join the Central Powers
• Italy switches sides during the Great War
• Italy goes CP
• Could Italy occupy Corsica if it was a CP member in WWI ?
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• World War I PODs
• Italy stays neutral
• Italy neutral in WWI - how does this affect Italy as a great power ?
• Italy doesn't fight in WWI
• Plausibility check: Central Powers adopt an "Italy first" strategy
• What if Italy [or country x] joined the Central Powers in WWI ?
• Italy out of WWI by 1917
• Austria beats Italy
• 1918: Germany attacks in Italy instead of France
• At the close of WW1, how could Italy have become a relevant military power ?
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• Plausibility check: Can Italy become communist in the interwar period ?
• An early Communist Italy
• WI Gabrielle D'Annunzio marches on Rome ?
• No Fascist Italy
• Challenge: Mussolini's Army is actually competent
• Franco-Italian War in the early to mid 30s
• WI: No Italo-German Alliance
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• World War II PODs
• Italy stays neutral
• Neutral Italy in WWII
• Italy stays out of WWII (1)
• Italy stays out of WWII (2)
• WI: Italy joins the allies in WWII
• Plausibility check: Allied Italy in WWII
• Italy as an Ally in WWII
• WI: Germany doesn't aid Italy in the Balkans
• AH Challenge: Italy dominant Axis power in WWII
• Italy joins the Allies in 1940
• Mussolini dies in July 1940
• Italy never invades Greece
• Surviving Fascist Italy
• Early capture of Malta by Italy
• WI Italy declares war in 1939, not 40 ?
• WI Italy is a Major Power in WWII
• Italy vs. Vichy France
• Britain vs. Italy 1941
• WI the Italians enter BoB ealier ?
• Italy bypassed Southern France invaded
• What if the Italian army had managed to reach the Nile in WWII ?
• Could the Italian campaign have succeeded alone ?
• Il Duce at sea: The Italian Navy more potent
• Italian Atomic Bomb challenge (with a twist !)
• Italian campaigns more successful in WWII
• Consequences of Italian neutrality in WWII
• How far could Italy have gone in WWII ?
• Maximize Italian gains during WWII
• Mussolini flees to Switzerland in 1945 (German)
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• France and Italy go Red post-war: Would Europe be screwed ?
• WI: Italian 1948 general election led to a Communist victory ?
• Occupation zones in Italy
• Italy Splits in 1946
• Italian Monarchy Survives
• Soccer WI: Italy goals golden in 1998
• Italy to Iraq
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• WI: Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Tunisia, and Italy ISOTed to 1914
• WI: Allied-occupied Italy, Tunisia, and Algeria ISOTed from 1944 to 1860
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