Italian Empire
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Italy was a latecomer to colonialism, having only been unified in 1871. Nevertheless, Italy developed a small colonial empire starting in with Assab Bay in modern-day Eritrea in 1882, and ending with the independence of Somalia in 1960.
UnderstandAfter the fall of the Roman Empire, the Italian peninsula was divided into numerous independent city-states.
DestinationsMost of the Dodecanese, a group of Greek islands just off the coast of Turkey, were an Italian colony from 1912-1945, conquered from the already failing Ottoman Empire.
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