Official language | Italian |
Capital | Rome |
Largest Cities | Rome: 3,400,000 Milan: 1,500,000 Naples: 1,000,000 |
Population | 65,000,000 in Italy proper; over 150,000,000 in territories |
Nation formed | March 17, 1861 |
Currency | Italian Lira (LI) |
King Vittorio Emanuele IV Duce Umberto Bossi | |
Our Timeline Equivalent | All of Italy plus Corsica, part of Croatia, and a small section of Southeastern France including Nice. Territories include Greece, most of the former Yugoslavia, Crete, Cyprus, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Ethiopia, and Somalia |
The Italian Empire is a fascist dictatorship centered in Italy and stretching across Europe and Africa. It serves as a direct successor to the Kingdom of Italy, founded in 1861 but changed drastically by a fascist coup led by Benito Mussolini in 1922. After emerging victorious as a major Axis Power in World War Two, Italy has maintained a large, powerful, and impressive global empire, albeit one far overshadowed by those of Germany and Japan.