Italia e Africa del Nord nell’Ottocento
Italy and North Africa in the nineteenth century
Abstract
During the XIX Century Tunisia knows the presence of a strong Italian colony which was formed thanks to merchants coming from different cities and regions of Italy even before the process of national unification, which were added political exiles, many fishermen, day-laborers and workers, considered the first nucleus of those stream migration that will bring in the North-African country thousands of workers from the South and the Islands of Italy. The result will be a strong match against France, which had large financial interests in the country and aimed to place under his control the North-African country, which will end with the imposition of the French protectorate in 1881.
Nel corso dell’800 la Tunisia conosce la presenza di una forte colonia italiana che si era formata grazie a commercianti provenienti da varie città e regioni della penisola già prima dell’unificazione nazionale, cui si erano aggiunti esuli politici e numerosi pescatori, braccianti, operai, primo nucleo di quella corrente migratoria che porterà nel paese nordafricano migliaia di lavoratori provenienti dal Mezzogiorno e dalle isole. Si determinerà una sfida con la Francia, che aveva nel paese grandi interessi finanziari, e mirava a porre sotto il suo controllo il paese nordafricano, che si concluderà con l’imposizione del protettorato francese nel 1881.
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