The ancient city of Rome became the capital of Italy in 1870. (1)
(1) In 1929 part of the city became Vatican City.
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CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Mayors
Sindaci
1870 - 1871 Filippo Doria Pamphili*
1871 Giovanni Angelini*
1871 Francesco Pallavicini
1871 - 1872 Francesco Grispigni*
1872 Pietro Venturi*
1872 - 1874 Luigi Pinciani
1874 - 1877 Pietro Venturi
1877 - 1880 Emanuele Ruspoli
1880 - 1881 Augusto Armellini*
1881 - 1882 Luigi Pinciani
1882 - 1887 Leopoldo Torlonia
1888 - 1889 Alessandro Guiccioli
1889 - 1890 Augusto Armellini
1890 Camillo Finocchiaro-Aprile* 1851 - 1916
1890 - 1892 Onorato Caetani
1892 - 1899 Emanuele Ruspoli
1899 Enrico Galluppi*
1899 - 1904 Prospero Colonna, Duca di Rignano e di
Calcata 1858 - 1937
1904 Carlo Palomba*
1904 - 1907 Giovanni Cruciani Alibrandi
1907 Cesare Salvarezza*
1907 - 1913 Ernesto Nathan 1845 - 1921
1913 - 1914 Fausto Aphel*
1914 - 1919 Prospero Colonna, Duca di Rignano e di
Calcata (2x)
1919 - 1920 Adolfo Apolloni
1920 - 1921 Luigi Rava 1860 - 1938
1921 - 1922 Giovanni Valli
1922 - 1925 Filippo Cremonesi
Governors
Governatori
1925 - 1926 Filippo Cremonesi s.a.
1926 - 1928 Ludovico Spada, Principe Potenziani 1880 - 1971
1928 - 1935 Franceso, Principe Boncompagni Ludovisi
1935 - 1936 Giuseppe Bottai 1895 - 1959
1936 - 1939 Piero Colonma
1939 - 1943 Giangiacomo Borghese
1943 - 1944 Riccardo Motta*
1944 Giovanni Orgera
Extraordinary Government Commissioner
Commissario Governativo Straordinario
1944 Roberto Bencivenga
Mayor
Sindaco
1944 - 1946 Andrea Doria Pamphili
The French speaking region of Aoste became part of Savoy - the heartland of
later Sardinia and Italy - in the 11th century.
After the formation of the Kingdom of Italy it formally continued to enjoy a
certain degree of cultural and administrative autonomy. This gradually faded
away after 1879 and was even followed by an open politic of Italianisation
during the P.N.F. regime. (1)
In 1927 the region, which till then, had been part of the province of Torino
became a separate province. (2)
(1) As a result a separatist resistance movement, the Jeune Vallée d'Aoste
emerged in 1925.
Presidents
1925 - 1941 Joseph-Marie Trèves 1... - 1941
1941 - 1944 Emile Chanoux, executed 1906 - 1944
(2) In 1945, at the end of the war, the province was occupied by French
troops, as a possible prelude to annexation by France. U.S. pressure
however forced them to withdrawn.
Commander of the Army Detachment of the Alps
Commandant du Détachement d'Armée des Alpes (D.A.A.)
1945 A. Doyen
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1912 : Occupation of the Dodecanesos, then part of the Osmanli Empire.
1914 : Occupation of parts of Southern Albania, later (1917) organised as an
independent State under Italian Protection.
1918 : Occupation of parts of Dalmatia, of the southern part of Tyrol and of
Venezia Giulia
1919 : Treaty of Saint Germain en Laye : annexation of Austrian territories :
- South Tyrol
- Venezia Giulia
1920 : Treaty of Tirana : end of Italian rule in Albania.
Treaty of Rapallo : annexation of the Dalmatian City of Zara and some
Dalmatian islands (Lagosta, Pelagosta)
1922 : Installation of a pro-Italian government in the Free City of Fiume
(de facto annexation to Italy).
1923 : Treaty of Lausanne : formal annexation of the Dodecanesos.
1924 : Treaty of Rome : formal annexation of the Free City of Fiume.
1939 : Occupation of Albania, which was formally only united in a personal
union with Italy, but was in fact an Italian dependency.
1940 : Occupation of the south eastern parts of France and of the
Principality of Monaco.(1)
1941 : Occupation and later also administration of the territory of the
former Kingdom of Montenegro, then part of Yugoslavia.
Annexation of the major parts of the Yugoslav regions of :
- Dalmatia
- Slovenia
Occupation of the Western parts of :
- the newly independent state of Croatia
- Greece
1943 : Italian administrations and occupations in all the above mentioned
territories terminated by the Germans.
1945 : Collapse of the German power. Only Southern Tyrol was immediatly
returned to Italy
(1) The occupation forces in Croatia, France, Greece and Monaco
normaly had only purely military tasks, the indigenous
administrations of the different territories continuing to
function as before (cfr. Denmark under German occupation).
Italian Oversea Dependencies in the period 1871 - 1945 included :
Adalia in Turkey from 1919 to 1921
Eritrea from 1869 to 1941
Ethiopia from 1936 to 1941
Italian Somaliland from 1889 to 1941 (1)
Libia from 1912 to 1942 (2)
Tientsin (Tianjin) in China from 1902 to 1943
(1) Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland united as
Italian East Africa from 1936 to 1941
(2) Until 1934 separate territories of
Cyrenaica
Tripolitania (including Fezzan)
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