By conquest.
A. To expand Italy's territory.
Italy
No ottoman empire is Turkey today and turkey defeated them.
the Ottoman Empire
After the WW1, Italy gain territory at the expenses of the defeated and collapsed Austrian-Hungarian Empire, accomplishing its national unity.
A. To expand Italy's territory.
Italy
The Romans decided to conquer all of Italy because they wanted to expand their empire.
Italy
No ottoman empire is Turkey today and turkey defeated them.
the Ottoman Empire
The Second and First Centuries BCE.
After the WW1, Italy gain territory at the expenses of the defeated and collapsed Austrian-Hungarian Empire, accomplishing its national unity.
Carthaginian attempt to dominate Sicily ran into a Rome determined to expand beyond Italy into Sicily.
Rome expanded its grip in Italy mainly for self protection. Then ambitious aristocrats/generals pushed beyond Italy to the Western Mediterranean.
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The Holy Roman Empire covered modern day Germany, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Alsace and Lorraine in France, Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia, Slovenia and Italy. The empire lost jurisdiction over Italy in 1183, and lost Switzerland in 1499 and the Netherlands in 1581.