List of wars involving Italy
This is a list of wars involving the Italian Republic and its predecessor states 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*
- Ongoing conflict
*e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Italy, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.
Italian Wars of Unification
[edit]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 in 1871 when Rome was declared capital of Italy.
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Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)
[edit]| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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| Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | ||||
| 1885 | 1895 | Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889[2] |  Italy
|
 Ethiopia Mahdist Sudan
|
Italian Victory, establishment of Italian Eritrea. |
| 1889 | 1920 | Pacification of Somalia[3] | Italy
|
Various rebels Dervish State |
Italian Victory, consolidation of Italian Somaliland. |
| 1890 | 1894 | Mahdist War | Italy
|
Mahdist Sudan
|
Italian Victory All Sudanese invasions repulsed Italians take Kassala |
| 1895 | 1896 | First Italo-Ethiopian War | Italy
|
 Ethiopia
|
Ethiopian Victory
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| 1896 | 1925 | Bīmāl revolt | Italy
|
Bimaal Rebels | Italian Victory
|
| 1897 | 1897 | Greco-Turkish War (1897) |  Greece
|
 Ottoman Empire
|
Turkish Victory
|
| 1897 | 1898 | Cretan Revolt (1897–1898) (International Squadron (Cretan intervention, 1897–1898)) |  Cretan revolutionaries .svg){kind=small} Kingdom of Greece British Empire France Italy Russian Empire Austria-Hungary (until April 12, 1898) German Empire (until March 16th, 1898)
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Ottoman Empire
|
Italian Victory
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| 1899 | 1901 | Boxer Rebellion | United Kingdom
|
 Righteous Harmony Society |
Italian Allied Victory, Boxer Protocol:
|
| 1900 | 1920 | Somaliland Campaign | Italy United Kingdom
|
 Dervish movement Ethiopian Empire
|
Italian-British Victory
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| 1902 | 1903 | Venezuelan naval blockade | United Kingdom Germany Italy
|
 Venezuela
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Inconclusive/Other Outcome
|
| 1911 | 1912 | Italo-Turkish War | Italy
|
Ottoman Empire
|
Italian Victory:
|
| 1911 | 1917 | Italo-Senussi War | Italy
|
 Senussi Order Ottoman Empire
|
Italian Victory:
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| 1912 | 1913 | First Balkan War | Balkan League: Bulgaria Serbia Greece Montenegro Italian volunteers Russia
|
Ottoman Empire Austria-Hungary
|
Balkan League Victory: |
| 1914 | 1918 | World War I | Allied Powers
|
Central Powers |
Italian Allied 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 | United Kingdom France Italy
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Ottoman Empire
|
Temporary occupation
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| 1919 | 1923 | Turkish War of Independence | Ottoman Empire Soviet Russia Italy[8]
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United Kingdom France Greece Armenia Georgia
|
Italian Allied Victory |
| 1920 | 1920 | Vlora War | Italy
|
 Principality of Albania
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Compromise agreement
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| 1920 | 1920 | Bloody Christmas | Italy
|
 Italian Regency of Carnaro
|
Italian Victory:
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| 1921 | 1921 | Anti-fascist uprising in Albona | Italy
|
 Labin Republic
|
Italian Victory:
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| 1923 | 1932 | Pacification of Libya | Italy
|
Senussi Order
|
Italian Victory:
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| 1924 | 1927 | Pacification of Italian Somaliland | Italy
|
Somali rebels | Italian Victory:
|
| 1924 | 1940 | Italian conquest of the Horn of Africa | Italy
|
 Sultanate of Hobyo |
Italian Victory:
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| 1935 | 1937 | Second Italo-Abyssinian War | Italy
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Ethiopian Empire
|
Italian Victory:
|
| 1936 | 1939 | Spanish Civil War |  Nationalist |
 Republican
|
Italian Allied Victory
|
| 1939 | 1939 | Invasion of Albania | Italy
|
 Albania
|
Italian Victory, Italian occupation of Albania. |
| 1939 | 1945 | World War II | Axis Powers
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Allied Powers
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'United Nations' Allied victory:
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Italian Republic (1946-present)
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See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Milan Vego (23 November 2004). Naval Strategy and Operations in Narrow Seas. Routledge. p. 149. ISBN 9781135777159.
- ^ Indro Montanelli, Storia d'Italia, vol. 6 1861 - 1919, RCS Libri S.p.A., 2006
- ^ Pacification of Somalia.
- ^ Kokkinos, P. (1965). Կոկինոս Պ., Հունահայ գաղութի պատմությունից (1918–1927) (in Armenian). Yerevan: National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. pp. 14, 208–209. ISBN 9789609952002. Cited in Vardanyan, Gevorg (12 November 2012). Հայ-հունական համագործակցության փորձերը Հայոց ցեղասպանության տարիներին (1915–1923 թթ.) [The attempts of the Greek-Armenian Co-operation during the Armenian Genocide (1915–1923)]]. akunq.net (in Armenian). Research Center on Western Armenian Studies. Archived from the original on 25 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ^ Gyula Andrássy, Bismarck, Andrássy, and Their Successors, Houghton Mifflin, 1927, p. 273.
- ^ Mehmed'in kanı ile kazandığını, değişmez kaderimiz !-barış masasında yine kaybetmiştik..., Cemal Kutay, Etniki Eterya'dan Günümüze Ege'nin Türk Kalma Savaşı, Boğaziçi Yayınları, 1980, p. 141. (in Turkish)
- ^ Yunanistan'ın savaş meydanındaki yenilgisi ise Büyük Devletler sayesinde barış masasında zafere dönüşmüş, ilk defa Lozan müzakerelerinde aksi yaşanacak olan, Yunanistan'ın mağlubiyetlerle gelişme ve büyümesi bu savaş sonunda bir kez daha görülmüştür., M. Metin Hülagü, "1897 Osmanlı-Yunan Savaşı'nın Sosyal Siyasal ve Kültürel Sonuçları", in Güler Eren, Kemal Çiçek, Halil İnalcık, Cem Oğuz (ed.), Osmanlı, Cilt 2, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, 1999, ISBN 975-6782-05-6, pp. 315–316. (in Turkish)
- ^ Italy, who had occupied Constantinople and a part of southwestern Anatolia, protected Turkish civilians from Greek and Allied troops and accepted Turkish refugees who had to flee from the regions invaded by the Greek army. The Place of the Turkish Independence War in the American Press (1918-1923) by Bülent Bilmez
- ^ "Statement by Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes". 23 September 1982.
- ^ "The Collapse of Lebanon's Army: U.S. Said to Ignore Factionalism". The New York Times. 11 March 1984.
- ^ Zerkalo Nedeli (28 February 2002). "Paper critical of Western call on Ukraine to stop selling arms to Macedonia". Free Republic. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
- ^ Carlotta Gall (23 July 2001). "Rebels Secure a Base in Macedonian Town". New York Times. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
- ^ Taras Kuzio (31 October 2001). "UKRAINE FORGES MILITARY ALLIANCE WITH MACEDONIA". The Jamestown. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
- ^ "Sectarian divisions change Baghdad's image". NBC News. 3 July 2006. Retrieved 18 February 2007.
- ^ "The JRTN Movement and Iraq's Next Insurgency | Combating Terrorism Center at West Point". Ctc.usma.edu. Archived from the original on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ^ "Al-Qaeda's Resurgence in Iraq: A Threat to U.S. Interests". U.S. Department of State. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2010.