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Italian newspaper of Tunisia; Photo of the "Petite Sicile" of la Goletta (La Goulette), with the local Catholic church; Website of the Italians of Tunisia; A tribute to Claudia Cardinale Archived 2017-09-30 at the Wayback Machine; How the French preceded the Italians in the occupation of Tunisia (in Italian) Tunisia in the British Encyclopedia
The Italian colonial empire (Italian: Impero coloniale italiano), also known as the Italian Empire (Impero italiano) between 1936 and 1941, was founded in Africa in the 19th century. It comprised the colonies , protectorates , concessions and dependencies of the Kingdom of Italy .
Anarchy in Ifriqiya (Modern day Tunisia) made it a target for the Norman kingdom in Sicily, [239] which between 1134 and 1148 seized Mahdia, Gabes, Sfax, and the island of Jerba. The Kingdom of Africa was an extension of the frontier zone of the Siculo-Norman state in the former Roman province of Africa [ a ] ( Ifrīqiya in Tunisian Arabic ...
After his appointment as Governor of the Dodecanese in 1936, the fascist leader Cesare Maria De Vecchi started to promote within Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party an idea [4] of a new "Imperial Italy" (Italian: Italia imperiale), one that, like a recreation of the Roman Empire, went beyond Europe and included northern Africa (the Fourth Shore or "Quarta Sponda" in Italian).
An attempt to create a colony in the Antilles by an Italian Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of Malta (then part of Sicily). From circa 1518, merchants from the Genoese Republic ruled the commerce and the port of Old Panama ( Panamá Viejo ), the oldest European settlement on the Pacific coast of the Americas.
Linda Fabiani, Scottish National Party MSP, and former Minister for Culture. Arguably the first people from Italy to reach Scotland were the Romans in and around 40AD, although the modern nations of Italy and Scotland did not exist at the time, and the Roman Empire was a cosmopolitan institution, with some Roman Emperors from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa.
[1] [2] In 1926, there were 90,000 Italians in Tunisia, compared to 70,000 Frenchmen, despite the fact that Tunisia was a French protectorate, as well as 8,396 Maltese. [ 3 ] Our Lady of Trapani procession is a traditional festival that the Tunisian Christian community celebrates on the 15th of August of each year at Saint-Augustin and Saint ...
Venturing to Scotland in 1803 was not an easy trip, and the thirty-year-old Dorothy would experience much of the rougher nature of Scottish life. Scotland had become depopulated in areas from emigration throughout the 18th century, and the remaining rural Scots existed in a preindustrial lifestyle more reminiscent of the Middle Ages than modern ...