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Italian ethnic regions claimed in the 1930s: * Green: Nice, Ticino and Dalmatia * Red: Malta * Violet: Corsica * Savoy and Corfu were later claimed. Italian irredentism (Italian: irredentismo italiano [irredenˈtizmo itaˈljaːno]) was a political movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Italy with irredentist goals which promoted the unification of geographic areas in which ...
Antonio Bajamonti. The Italian linguist Matteo Bartoli calculated that Italian was the primary spoken language of 33% of the Dalmatian population in 1803. [10] [11] Bartoli's evaluation was followed by other claims that Auguste de Marmont, the French Governor General of the Napoleonic Illyrian Provinces commissioned a census in 1809 which found that Dalmatian Italians comprised 29% of the ...
The Italian claim on Gorizia and Gradisca was generally recognised, as was its claim on the Slavic settlements around Friuli. [ 3 ] At the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Rome (8–10 April 1918), Italy lent official support to the Declaration of Corfu (20 July 1917), a Yugoslavist document supported by ...
During World War II, Italy occupied large chunks of the Yugoslav coast and created the Governorship of Dalmatia (1941–1943), with three Italian provinces, Zadar, Split and Kotor. Zadar was bombed by the Allies and heavily damaged in 1943–44, with numerous civilian casualties.
Territories promised to Italy by the 1915 Treaty of London, i.e. Trentino-Alto Adige, the Julian March and Dalmatia (tan), and the Snežnik Plateau area (green).. Since at least 18th century, Croatia and Hungary, both realms of the Habsburg monarchy at the time, laid competing claims on the city of Rijeka (Italian: Fiume) – as a part of the national territory and an important Adriatic port. [7]
Under the World Bank’s rules, governments seeking money from the bank must put together detailed resettlement plans for people who are physically or economically displaced. Current and former bank employees say the work of enforcing these standards has often been undercut by internal pressures to win approval for big, splashy projects.
How The World Bank Is Financing Environmental Destruction. India. A Power Plant Backed By The World Bank Group Threatens A Way Of Life. Honduras. World Bank’s Business-Lending Arm Backed Palm Oil Producer Amid Deadly Land War. Kosovo. Kosovars Who Rebuilt War-Torn Village Face New Threat As World Bank Considers Coal-Burning Power Plant
The economic history of Italy after 1861 can be divided in three main phases: [14] an initial period of struggle after the unification of the country, characterised by high emigration and stagnant growth; a central period of robust catch-up from the 1890s to the 1980s, interrupted by the Great Depression of the 1930s and the two world wars; and ...