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What did government in the Italian peninsula look like in 1855

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The Italian peninsula's government was controlled by  either Austria or the papacy. Ultimately, this arrangement had to change when Prussia defeated Austria in 1866, and the latter had to concede Venetia in the name of Italy's unification.
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