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 | | Italian unification, also known as the Risorgimento, was a historical process by which the Kingdom of Sardinia (ruled by Savoy dynasty - capital Turin) conquered the Italian peninsula with the inclusion of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Duchy of Modena, the Duchy of Tuscany, the Marches, the Abruzzi, and the Papal States. |
 | | 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 Rome, capital of the Papal States, on September 20, 1870. |
 | | It is to this able man that the honor of the unification of Italy most fully belongs, though he did not live to see it. |
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