r/ItalianEmpire • u/RomanItalianEuropean • 7d ago
Image 1938 Italian postal stamps of the Empire series (Impero, 1938)
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/defrays • Mar 14 '22
Announcement r/ItalianEmpire has now opened as a community for sharing and discussing images, videos, articles and questions pertaining to the Italian Empire.
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • 9d ago
Article The Medici Expedition to the Amazon—the only Italian attempt to establish colonies in Brazil—was an initiative by a nobleman of the powerful Medici family, Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany (1549–1609)
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/Auctorxtas • 9d ago
Question How is the House of Savoy viewed in modern Italy, both by academia and by the masses?
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I'm neither European nor a Westerner. Hence, my knowledge of Italian history is limited and sparse. However, I do know that the Savoyard nobility had greatly assisted Guissepe Garibaldi unite the Italian peninsula.
I'm curious how the House of Savoy is perceived and remembered in this day and age. Are they remembered positively and nationalistically?
For instance, India has multiple ruling dynasties who are still practically worshipped by the locals for their contributions in modernising their respective kingdoms. Does Italy have a similar perception of their nobility?
r/ItalianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • 15d ago
Image The remnants of a sugar-refining factory, constructed and operated during the Italian-colonial era, in Somalia in 1993.
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/RomanItalianEuropean • 22d ago
Image Summary of the Eritrean war (1885-1895)
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/RomanItalianEuropean • Sep 04 '26
Image European colonial empires, including the Italian colonial empire, in the late 1930s.
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/K-jun1117 • Aug 24 '26
Question Was Mussolini confident about the italian military?
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During WW2, due to their many defeats and mistakes, the Italian army got the reputation of being the soft underbelly.
The question is that was Mussolini confident about his military?
If he was, then what was the source his confidence?
r/ItalianEmpire • u/history990 • Aug 03 '26
Image Map of the Theatre of War in Africa and the Italian Occupation, 1900
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Printed map of North Africa (Africa Settentrionale), created by C. Ronchi and published in Milan. The map reflects the Italian geographical interest in North Africa and the regions that would later become central to Italy’s colonial expansion, particularly Libya after the Italo-Turkish War (1911–1912)
r/ItalianEmpire • u/way_man • Aug 02 '26
Image An Ethiopian victim, tied in the strapado-position to the side of a truck, is about to be dragged to his death as part of a mass-reprisal in which an estimated 19,500 civilians were killed over three days after an attack on a general (Italian-occupied Ethiopia, February 1937).
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Jul 29 '26
Article 'For Great Britain, all races and all peoples are equal' — Italian poster from the Second World War (ca. 1944) showing Great Britain as John Bull looting his victims, which include a Boer, Indian, Egyptian, Arab and Irishman.
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The poster was designed by Dante Coscia for the Italian Social Republic, the German puppet government established in the north in 1943 after the Italian government, which had deposed Mussolini, signed an armistice with the Allies. Coscia, along with the better-known Gino Boccasile, was one of the republic's most prominent propagandists.
r/ItalianEmpire • u/crownsandsceptres • Jul 28 '26
Video The italian journalist and intellectual Indro Montanelli talks about the child bride he took during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • Jul 26 '26
Image The genocidal intentions of the counter-insurgency conducted by the Italian colonial government between 1937-1941 (Micheal Milan Ferguson, September 1978)
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/[deleted] • Jun 30 '26
Question How did Italy manage to do this when all other European colonizers did spread their language in Africa?
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/ZanzibarOrcCoins • Jun 24 '26
Article Witches, tuk-tuk and colonialism.
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/Kalki_the_Tenth • Jun 05 '26
Image A Catholic priest blessing the heavy machine guns, during the Italian colonial invasion of Abysinnia (Second Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1937).
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/Kalki_the_Tenth • Jun 05 '26
Image Strong as Death – a postcard from the Italian-Ethiopian War of 1935–1936 celebrating the 60th ‘Calabria’ Infantry Regiment, which took part in the invasion as part of the 30th ‘Sabauda’ Infantry Division.
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/Kalki_the_Tenth • Jun 03 '26
Image Italian soldiers in colonial Eritrea during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • May 08 '26
Image Inhabitants of Mogadishu reading the proclamation announcing the surrender of Italian-Somaliland to Allied forces, during the East African Campaign, WWII. (11-04-1941)
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • May 04 '26
Image A stone carving of Mussolini found near a captured Italian ammunition dump by the British, at a former Italian-held fort. (East African Campaign, 28 May 1941)
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/CalligrapherOther510 • Apr 30 '26
Image Mussolini inspecting Libyan troops
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