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Regno d'Italia
Kingdom of Italy

Flag Coat of arms

Motto
"Tutto nello Stato, niente al fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato" (Italian)
"Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State"

Anthem
Marcia Reale d'Ordinanza


Capital
(and largest city)
Rome
41°54′N, 12°29′E

Official languages Italian

Demonym Italian

Government
 - King
 - Prime Minister
Constitutional monarchy
Emanuele I
Alessandra Mussolini

Unification March 17, 1861

Area
 - Total

 - Water (%)

2,710,928 km²
1,046,716 sq mi
0.7

Population
 - Total
 - Density
 

78,894,007
29.1 /km²
75.4 /sq mi

GDP (PPP)
 - Total
 - Per capita
2007 estimate
to be added
to be added

Gini n/a (n/a) (unranked)

HDI 0.940 (high)

Currency Lira (L) (ITL)

Time zone
 - Summer (DST)
CET (UTC +1)
CEST (UTC +2)

Internet TLD .it

Calling code +39

The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia) is a state forged in 1861 by the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia. The Kingdom is the first Italian state to include the entire Italian Peninsula since the fall of the Roman Empire.

The National Fascist Party under Benito Mussolini took power in 1922. Since Mussolini's death in the 1959, Alfonso Graziani, son of former Defence Minister Rodolfo Graziani, was elected Prime Minister. Graziani later stepped down from his position in 1985 and Luca Romagnoli held the position until 1991, when Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of Il Duce came to power.

The kingdom is often called by nationalists and Fascists the "Italian Empire" (Italian: Impero Italiano) or the "New Roman Empire" (Italian: Nuovo Impero Romano, Latin: Novum Imperium Romanum), but these were not used officially. The name often given by historians to the Kingdom of Italy is Fascist Italy.

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