State · 1882 – 1960

Italian Empire

A state of 1882 – 1960 — 78 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 18 things within it — wars and battles 9 · unrest and atrocity 1 · people 8. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 78 years; 1882 – 1960
Rulers: 3; the King (until 1946)
Most ground: 3.53 million km²; in 1940
Within it: 18; recorded rows
Symbols: 8; on record, with years

Map: Italian Empire in 1940, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Italian Empire in 1940, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 3.53 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Italian Empire in 1890, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Italian Empire in 1940, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Umberto I of Italy	1882 – 1900	18 years	ending not on record
Victor Emmanuel III	1900 – 1946	46 years	ending not on record	child
Umberto II of Italy	1946 – 1946	under a year	ending not on record	child

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1882 – 1946. Median reign 18 years. 0 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

271,700 km² in 1892, 1.54 million km² in 1942; at its largest 2.12 million km² in 1932. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of Italy (1861–1946) · Public domain
coat of arms, to 1890Greater coat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy (1870-1890) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Facquis
coat of arms, 1890 – 1927Middle CoA of the Kingdom of Italy (1890) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Flopao
coat of arms, 1890 – 1946Middle CoA of the Kingdom of Italy (1890) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Flopao
coat of arms, 1927 – 1929Lesser CoA of the Kingdom of Italy (1927-1929) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Flopao
coat of arms, 1929 – 1944Lesser coat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy (1929-1943) · Public domain
coat of arms, 1944 – 1927Middle CoA of the Kingdom of Italy (1890) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Flopao
coat of arms, 1944 – 1946Middle CoA of the Kingdom of Italy (1890) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Flopao

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1800 – 18992 rows · 2 wars and battles

First Italo-Ethiopian War · war · 1894 – 1896
Battle of Coatit · battle · 1895

1900 – 199916 rows · 7 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Battle of Bir Hakeim · battle · 1942
Operation Sonnenblume · battle · 1941
Mohammed Magariaf · politician · 1940 – present
Tesfaye Gebre Kidan · ruler · 1937 – 2004
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi · politician · 1939 – 2023
Ali Treki · politician · 1937 – 2015
Battle of Gondar · battle · 1941
Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr · politician · 1940 – 2011

and 8 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood78 years
stood longer than 42% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held3,525,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 96% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median18 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 56% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1872 – 1970, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1940, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q926295 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.