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Italy, also interested in Tunisia, protested, but did not risk a war with France. On May 12 of that year, Tunisia was officially made a French protectorate with the signature of the treaty of Bardo (Al Qasr as Sa'id)by Muhammad III as-Sadiq. [362] This gave France control of Tunisian governance and making it a de facto French protectorate.
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
With this fleet, Barbarossa conducted aggressive raids along the coast of Italy, then conquered Tunis on 16 August 1534, ousting the theretofore local ruler, Muley Hasan, who had been subservient to the Spanish [11] [12] Barbarossa established a strong naval base in Tunis, which could be used for raids in the region, and on nearby Malta. [11]
De Vecchi's dream was an Imperial Italy that included not only all the European territories wanted by the Italian irredentists (Nice, Savoy, Ticino, Dalmatia, Corfu, Malta and Corsica) and populated by Italian communities for many centuries, but even the north African territories (Libya and Tunisia), where Italian emigrants had created ...
Italy and the colonization of the Americas was related to Primarily: An aborted attempt to create a colony in the Americas, in what is now French Guiana, made by the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in the early 1600s. An attempt to create a colony in the Antilles by an Italian Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of Malta (then part of Sicily).
Italy had arrived late to the colonial race and its status as the least of the Great Powers, a position of relative weakness in international affairs, meant that it was dependent on the acquiescence of Britain, France and Germany towards its empire-building. [10] Italy had long considered the Ottoman province of Tunisia, where a large community ...
In 1882, Paul Cambon energetically took advantage of his position as Resident, leaving the Bey essentially powerless, and in effect administering Tunisia as another French colony. [5] The French established an important naval base at Bizerte in 1898. [6] Italy would respond with the 1911–12 Italo-Turkish War leading to the Italian occupation ...
The Fourth Shore (in orange color in northern Libya), the southern part of Greater Italy, an Italian Fascist project to expand Italy's borders.. The Fourth Shore (Italian: Quarta Sponda) or Italian North Africa (Italian: Africa Settentrionale Italiana, ASI) was the name created by Benito Mussolini to refer to the Mediterranean shore of coastal colonial Italian Libya and, during World War II ...