> Italian
> Empire
Having 2 colonies doesn't count as Empire.

>>1144612
3 colonies actually.

>>1144612
Actually you could think of Unification Period italy as the Empire of Sardinia-Piedmont in some ways.

The Italian States - some of them at least- are quite independent that some of them were becoming national movements. Venice to name one.

>>1144629
now I have the urge to form Italy in vic2 again

>>1144572
My great uncle fought in Ethiopia.

>>1146706
So did my great-grandfather. He also fought in WWII under the 11th Infantry Division of the Savoia Grenadiers, but ended up getting captured here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Keren

>>1144612
Even having 1 colony would technically make you an empire.

>Immaculate
>Italic
>Imperium

In any event, one may argue that Italy has historically worked best as a cluster of bickering city-states (Roman Empire aside). Would commerce in Venice or the humanities in Florence really have flourished under a single broad, strict governing body?

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>>1144572
>Italian Empire

>>1146706
>>1146905

I think my great uncle's dad (great great uncle?) fought in Ethiopia too

>>1144572
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire