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Italy as a state was essentially an invented country created through a unification process in the mid-19th century.

“If you were being very, uh, cynical, and our Italian listeners, if any exist, will at this point turn the podcast off, you might say Italy is an invented country. People have made it up.”

The Rest Is History · May 2026 · 1 episode · 250K views on this topic

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