CAVOKItaly ruling tells millions with Italian roots they have lost the right to citizenship | CNN
Since Italy became a country in 1861, there has been a surefire way to know who is and isn’t an Italian citizen: look at their parents.
🤔🥴 Somebody is going to have to explain that first sentence to me…
I know there was an “Italian Kingdom” around that time, did that change it’s status from something to a country?
The Kingdom of Italy before 1861 was only a tiny part of the italian peninsula. Before that there was a Kingdom of Italy as part of the Holy Roman Empire and then another Kingdom of Italy created by Napoleon. Modern Italy was created by the unification and annexation of a lot of kingdoms, duchies and so. This isn’t unique to Italy either, Germany was created in a very similar way and only started existing as one nation in 1871.
trivia to annoy Italians, napolitan immigrants arrived to America before Italian unification. they made pizza, therefore American Pizza predates Italian pizza on the technicality that Italy didn’t exist
The earliest pizzeria in the US opened in 1905, long after Italy existed as a nation-state.
that’s assuming that napolitans did not make pizza in the US until they opened a pizzeria.