Describe Unification of Italy - Social Science - The Rise of Nationalism in Europe

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Describe Unification of Italy?

Vikas Trivedi · Accepted Answer

Dear student,
The process of the ‘Unification of Italy’ was not
sudden but was done gradually as following-
(i) Like Germany,Italy was scattered over several dynastic states
as well as the multinational Habsburg Empire During the middle of
the nineteenth century, Italy was divided into seven states of
which only one Sardinia-Piedmont, was ruled by an Italian Princely
house
(ii) The North was under Austrian Habsburg, the centre was ruled by
the Pope and the Southern regions were under the domination of the
Bourbon kings of Spain
(iii) Italy’s unification process was the work of Giuseppe
Garibaldi, Count Cavour, and Victory Emmanuel II, the 3 primary
leaders
(iv) With the secret societies founded by Mazzini, such as Young
Italy and Young Europe, the unification of Italy began
(v) Count Cavour overcame the Austrians and liberated northern
Italy Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860, defeated the Bourbon kings of
Spain with his armed volunteers called red shirts, liberating the
kingdom of two Sicilies
(vi) In 1861 Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed king of united
Italy
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