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Fascism
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Italian Fascism
Benito Mussolini founded the Fascist movement in Milan in 1919, initially drawing support from war veterans, small business owners, and those fearful of socialist revolution. By 1922, the Fascist Party's "March on Rome" forced King Victor Emmanuel III to appoint Mussolini as Prime Minister. Italian fascism, while authoritarian and militaristic, proved less ideologically rigid than its German counterpart and maintained greater institutional pluralism through the monarchy and [Catholic Church]… -
Western Roman Empire
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Administrative Division and Political Geography
The formal division of the Empire, though preceded by earlier splits, was established by Theodosius I, who bequeathed the East to his son Arcadius and the West to his son Honorius. The seat of effective power in the West migrated over time. Initially centered in Milan and later Ravenna due to its superior defensibility against sea-borne incursions, the city of Rome itself largely ceded its political centrality, remaining the symbolic heart but not the administrative capital.
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