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Hello. I was looking up Italo Balbo's wikipedia page, and it mentions how he made preparations and brought reinforcements into Libya shortly before the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia, hoping to strike for Egypt. It didn't end up happening, but from what I understand such an attack wasn't known by...

Austria's annexation of Bosnia, which it had previously occupied, is noted as one of the flashpoints to WW1. Russia of course (or more accurately a Russian minister) made claims of compensation regarding Bosnia. But Italy was also put out regarding this expansion, which they got nothing for...

Assuming Joachim Murat somehow endears himself to the Coalition enough for them to let him keep his throne in Naples, could his descendants unify Italy under their leadership when the First War of Independence breaks out? I expect them to give genuine support to the 1848 revolutionaries instead...

Let's say that, for whatever reason, Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I decides against invading Italy or going further West. Let's say he still invades the territories held by the Vandals in Tunisia, and that he's able to cling on to power. But that's as far West as he goes. Instead, he focuses...

INTRODUCTION "Of noble knights and ladies, arms, and love/Of chivalry, and noble deeds I sing" - Ludovico Ariosto There is nothing better than starting this new cycle of adventures starting from the famous verses of the poet, who dedicated both Gerusalemme Liberata and the Orlando Furioso to...

For those who don't know what I am talking about, the P 26/40 was Italy's WW2 'heavy tank' that came too late to make any important contribution to the war, ending up post armistice as turret-bunkers. In truth, the tank was more comparable to a Panzer IV G, Sherman M4A1, T-34 1940 etc. than any...

Wondering about the labour-intensiveness of rice agriculture especially in the colder regions like Central China, Japan, and Italy, I have been left to wonder whether a breed of water buffaloes that can withstand colder temperatures is plausible at all. And in the case that it can be, I do also...

Ok, we have threads for getting various world navies optimized for WWII, but this thread is more for getting Italy to define her war goals, and build towards achieving them. Time period is 1918-1940. Italy wants to control the Mediterranean Sea. Your mission is to make this happen/possible...

Ok folks, so this thread is for batting around ideas for making the Italians have more money for their war effort. This can either be by investing in making more money outright, or by saving money by cutting costs, mainly from their military/navy. My personal wish list would be for tourism...

Joachim Murat was a Marshal of France and general of Napoleon who was installed as King of Naples from 1808-1815. During the Hundred Days he leaped to join Napoleon and declared war on Austria hoping to advance his own position, which ultimately failed. He was deposed and executed soon after...

The pod is simple: Hitler dies from his wounds after being blinded by mustard gas on WW1 and never enters politics, meaning that while there's several far right-wing groups causing troubles they never get to wield any serious power outside of working as a block. So for Germany there's no war as...

We all know the history of the unifications of Germany and Italy. But to oversimplify... In Germany, after Napoleon, the age of Romanticism and Rise of German Nationalism, which culminated in the failed 1848 Revolution, Germany would be united through blood and iron. Under the prime minister...

Garibaldi was a great general but he was always snubbed by the Kingdom of Sardinia because he was a republican,he was first exiled and even when he later wanted to help the Sardinians unite Italy he was sent to fight on secondary fronts,what would have happened instead if he had been a...

I am toying around with the idea of a Central Powers victory in WW I where Italy joins the Central Powers and the Ottomans barely manage to stay neutral (or maybe join when it is already clear that the CP are going to win) and also have Ataturk in power or close to that. Also I am thinking...

In 1858 the Plombières Accords were signed between France and the Kingdom of Sardinia,peved that if Sardinia was attacked by Austria, France would intervene,it would annex the French-speaking regions of Nice and Savoy from the Kingdom of Sardinia,there would then be a new arrangement of...

The reason there was no Nuremberg trial in Italy is the Togliatti amnesty,one did not want to start a lengthy trial in a country torn apart by war and in need of rebuilding.What would have happened if Mussolini had not been killed by partisans,had survived and the amnesty had applied to him as...

Is there an in way for the church state to survive?Would it retain all its territory or would this be reduced.How would the state evolve?Would it become a parliamentary monarchy with the pope only as an institutional figure or would there be a secularist revolution? The POD could be in the...

The Childs of the Salamander TImeline of the death of Francis I in 1525 On 24 February 1525 in Pavia, in Lombardy, the army of Francis I, King of France was defeated. More than a military defeat, this meeting saw the king captured by the armies of his great rival on the European scene, the...

What if, contemporarily to the ecumenical council of 870 in Constantinople, Ermengarde of Italy and Constantine of Byzantium formalized their marriage and created a solid bond between the kingdom of Italy and the Eastern Romans? This would pacify the orthodox extremists who claimed Charlemagne...

IOTL, after the Exarchate of Ravenna fell to the Lombards, the Pope turned away from Constantinople as his traditional protector, and looked to the Franks for aid. Following Frankish intervention, the territories of the Exarchate of Ravenna were restored, but not given to the Exarch as the first...