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General facts
- Population: 36 million (1915)
- Capital: Rome (1915 population 590,000)
Government
- Head of State: King Vittorio-Emanuele III (29 July 1900 – 9 May 1946)
- Head of Government:
- Prime Minister Antonio Salandra (21 March 1914 – 18 June 1916)
- Prime Minister Paolo Boselli (18 June 1916 – 29 October 1917)
- Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuelle Orlando (29 October 1917 – 23 June 1919)
- Prime Minister Francesco Severio Nitti (23 June 1919 – 15 June 1920)
Participation in the War
- Entered the war: 23 May 1915 (Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary)
- Ceased hostilities: 11 November 1918 (armistice with Germany)
- Ended belligerent status: 10 August 1920 (Treaty of Sèvres signed with Ottoman Empire)
Military Forces
Army
- Peacetime strength 1915: 290,000 Regular Army (Esercito Permanente)
- Reserves 1915: 1 million (includes Reserve Army (Milizia Mobile) and Home Guard (Milizia Territoriale))
- Total mobilised 1915: 1.5 million
- Total mobilised during war: 5.6 million
Navy
- Peacetime strength: 40,000
Fleet (1915)
- Battleships (Dreadnoughts): 4
- Battleships (pre-Dreadnoughts): 8
- Battlecruisers: 4
- Cruisers: 5
- Light cruisers: 6
- Destroyers: 33
- Submarines: 14
Casualties
Military
- Dead (all causes): 462,000
- Wounded: 953,000
Sources
- David Nicolle, The Italian Army of World War I, Osprey, Oxford, 2003
- Hew Strachan, The First World War Volume I: To Arms, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001
- Spencer C. Tucker (ed.), The Encyclopedia of World War I: Volume 2, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara CA, 2005