Why didn't the Italians Colonize the Americas?
255K views · Jan 28, 2026 · Education
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@Knowledgia · 8 months ago (edited) · pinned
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@Texian_45 · 8 months ago
It's called New Jersey!
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@TeacosieRAF · 8 months ago (edited)
I swear every time he showed that image of Italy, a new city state would pop up
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@whatscout78 · 8 months ago
Italy and Germany are literally brothers in almost everything.
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@SARodriguez-kw7wl · 8 months ago
Italy wasn't a unified nation until 1861
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@ALiberalVeteran · 8 months ago
No pun intended, but Germany was in the same boat. These two countries were filled with city states. And with no centralized government, local population was not worried about colonization. Not to mention Italian and German economies included banking, which were some of the best in the world at that time so it's not like they needed gold like Spain or more trade like England.
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@ImperatoreDante · 8 months ago
The second duke of Tuscany threw so hard
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@thenarrator5746 · 8 months ago
Technically New Venice would be Venezuela since it’s already named after Venice.
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@dantetre · 8 months ago
Italian states: "It is so hard for us to colonize!"<br>Courland: Hold my beer!
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@DarDarBinks1986 · 8 months ago
Geography also limited the Italian countries. They had to go through the Strait of Gibraltar to get to the Atlantic and thus to the Americas. Spain, Portugal, England, the Netherlands, and France all had direct access to the ocean.
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@rnedlo9909 · 8 months ago
Ever been to the Bronx?
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@lyck4477 · 8 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3JFIniNk9s&t=70">1:10</a> italian unification happend in the 1861, but the actual modern lands in 1871
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