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|native_name = ''Regno d'Italia''
|conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Italy
|common_name = Italy
|continent = Europe
|region    = Italy
|country   = Italy
|year_start  = 1861
(contracted; show full)hat concerned the Allies was the Italian Royal Navy (''[[Regia Marina]]''), the fourth largest navy in the world at the time. In 1940, the British [[Royal Navy]] launched a surprise air attack on the Italian fleet at [[Battle of Taranto|Taranto]] which crippled Italy's major warships. Although the Italian fleet did not inflict serious damage as was feared, it did keep significant [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwealth]] naval forces in the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. This fleet 
  had to fight the Italian fleet to keep British Commonwealth forces in Egypt and the Middle East from being cut off from Britain. In 1941 on the Italian-controlled island of [[Kastelorizo]], off the coast of [[Turkey]], Italian forces succeeded in repelling British and Australian forces attempting to occupy the island during [[Operation Abstention]]. In December 1941, a covert attack by Italian forces took place in [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt]], in which Italian divers attached explosives to British warships resulting in two British battleships being sunk. This was known as the [[Raid on Alexandria (1941)|Raid on Alexandria]]. In 1942, the Italian navy inflicted a serious blow to a British convoy fleet attempting to reach [[Malta]] during [[Operation Harpoon (1942)|Operation Harpoon]], sinking multiple British vessels. Over time, the Allied navies inflicted serious damage to the Italian fleet, and ruined Italy's one advantage to Germany.
[[Image:Plotone di esecuzione italiano.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Italian soldiers in [[Slovenia]] on the [[Yugoslav Front]], 1942.]]
(contracted; show full)y control across all of Croatia's coast, which combined with Italian control of Albania and Montenegro, gave Italy complete control of the Adriatic Sea, thus completing a key part of the ''[[Mare Nostrum]]'' policy of the Fascists. The Ustaše movement proved valuable to Italy and Germany as a means to counter [[Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland|Royalist Chetnik guerrillas]] and the communist [[Yugoslav Partisans]] under [[Josip Broz Tito]] who opposed the occupation of Yugoslavia. 


Despite a faltering army, Italy's navy continued to pose a threat to Allied forces and managed to repel and inflict damage on Allied forces during the war. In 1941 on the Italian-controlled island of [[Kastelorizo]], off the coast of [[Turkey]], Italian forces succeeded in repelling British and Australian forces attempting to occupy the island during [[Operation Abstention]]. In December 1941, a covert attack by Italian forces took place in [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt]], in which Italian divers attached explosives to British warships resulting in two British battleships being sunk. This was known as the [[Raid on Alexandria (1941)|Raid on Alexandria]]. In 1942, the Italian navy inflicted a serious blow to a British convoy fleet attempting to reach [[Malta]] during [[Operation Harpoon (1942)|Operation Harpoon]], sinking multiple British vessels.⏎
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[[Image:AB 41 NAfrica.jpg|thumb|right|200px|An Italian Armoured Car "AB 41" in Egypt]]
In 1940, Italy invaded [[Kingdom of Egypt|Egypt]] and was soon driven far back into [[Libya]] by British Commonwealth forces. The German army sent a detachment to join the Italian army in Libya to save the colony from the British advance. German army units in the [[Afrika Korps]] under General [[Erwin Rommel]] were the mainstay in the campaign to push the British out of Libya and into central Egypt in 1941 to 19(contracted; show full)[[pt:Reino de Itália]]
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