Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The referendum at the origin of the Italian republic was, however, the subject of some controversy, not least because of some contested results and because of a geographical divide between the North, where the Republic won a clear majority, and the South, where the monarchists were in a majority. [32]
Italy became a republic after the 1946 Italian institutional referendum [100] held on 2 June, a day celebrated since as Festa della Repubblica. This was the first time women voted nationally. [101] Victor Emmanuel III's son, Umberto II, was forced to abdicate. The Republican Constitution was approved in 1948.
The German occupation triggered widespread national resistance against it and the Italian Social Republic, leading to the Italian Civil War. The Italian Social Republic was the second and last incarnation of the Italian Fascist state, led by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his reformed anti-monarchist Republican Fascist Party.
All the other Italian states remained independent, with the most powerful being the Venetian Republic, the Medici's Duchy of Tuscany, the Savoyard state, the Republic of Genoa, and the Papal States. The Gonzaga in Mantua, the Este in Modena and Ferrara and the Farnese in Parma and Piacenza continued to be important dynasties.
move to sidebar hide. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Republican Army (Italian: Esercito Nazionale Repubblicano; abbreviated ENR), colloquially known as the Army of the North (Italian: Esercito del Nord) was the army of the Italian Social Republic (Italian: Repubblica Sociale Italiana, or RSI) from 1943 to 1945, fighting on the side of Nazi Germany during World War II.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
With article 48 of the constitution, which guarantees the right to vote, the people exercise their power through their elected representatives in the parliament. [2] The Italian Parliament has a bicameral system, and consists of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic, elected every five years.