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Unification of Italy

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Italian Unification was a historical process by which the Kingdom of Sardinia (ruled by Savoy dinasty - capital Turin), conquered Italian peninsula, with the inclusion (among others) of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.

The first part of this process ended in 1860 with the declaration of the Kingdom of Italy; the unification was completed by the conquest of the Papal States on September 20, 1870.

See also Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini.

Current Italian territory is mainly the same of 1870.

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