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History. After the deposition of the last Western Emperor in 476, Heruli leader Odoacer was appointed Dux Italiae ("Duke of Italy") by the reigning Byzantine Emperor Zeno.Later, the Germanic foederati, the Scirians and the Heruli, as well as a large segment of the Italic Roman army, proclaimed Odoacer Rex Italiae ("King of Italy").
- 17 March 1861
- Umberto II
King of Italy (Italian: Re d'Italia; Latin: Rex Italiae) was the title given to the ruler of the Kingdom of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The first to take the title was Odoacer, a barbarian warlord, in the late 5th century, followed by the Ostrogothic kings up to the mid-6th century. With the Frankish conquest of Italy in ...
- 4 September 476
- Umberto II of Italy
Apr 24, 2021 · King Victor Emmanuel II (1861–1878) Ettore Ferrari (1845–1929) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0. Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont was in a prime position to act when a war between France and Austria opened the door for Italian unification. Thanks to the help of adventurers like Guiseppe Garibaldi, he became the first king of Italy.
The Kingdom of Italy ( Italian: Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 2 June 1946, when civil discontent led to an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italian Republic. The state resulted from a decades-long process ...
The last king was Umberto. After turning over his powers, he went into exile in Portugal, never to return to his beloved country. He died in 1983. The titles that go with the House of Savoy include: Count of Savoy (1003–1416) Duke of Savoy (1416–1861) King of Cyprus (1485–1946) King of Jerusalem (1485–1946) King of Armenia (1485–1946)
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May 16, 2017 · On 18 February 1861, Victor Emanuele, the soldier King of Piedmont-Sardinia, began to call himself the ruler of a united Italy after stunning success in unifying a country which had been divided since the sixth century. A solid military leader, instigator of liberal reform and superb spotter of brilliant statesmen and generals, Victor Emanuele ...
The Risorgimento successfully united most of Italy, including Sicily and Sardinia by 1861, and the unification of peninsular Italy was completed by 1870. Italy joined the Allies during World War I, but social unrest in the 1920s brought to power the Fascist movement of Benito Mussolini, and Italy allied itself with Nazi Germany in World War II.
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