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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
Italians had a long history in Tunisia, tracing back to the 16th century. The Italian language was a lingua franca among merchants, due partially to the existing Italian-Jewish merchant community. Italy had close relations with the Bey of Tunis, receiving its own capitulation in 1868 , giving it most favored nation status. The international ...
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 .
Italian explorers and colonizers serving for other European nations; the role played by the Pope in Christianizing the New World and resolving disputes between competing colonial powers. Beginning in the first decades of the 19th century, there were "colonies" of Italians in many Latin American nations [1]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Italian immigration to Tunisia had grown rapidly under the French Protectorate, and by 1900, Italians made up around seven-eighths of the colony's European population of 80,000 people. In 1903, the Italian consul calculated that here were 80,000 Italians alone, [ 21 ] while a 1910 estimate indicated that there were 105,000 Italians in Tunisia ...