Unification of Italy
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The unification of Italy, also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in 1861 in the consolidation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles into a single state, the... Wikipedia
Start date: 1848
Location: Italy
End date: 1871
Prime minister: Camillo Benso, count di Cavour
Outcome: Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy; Capture of Rome; Rome becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Italy
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