Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

As conservatives, liberals, and radicals debated issues of government, a new movement called nationalism was emerging. Nationalism is the belief that one 's greatest loyalty should not be toa king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history. When the nation also had its own independent government, it became a nation-state. The region includes all or part of presentday Greece, Albania, Romania, and Turkey, and the former Yugoslavia.

Since the fall of the Roman empire, Italy had been divide into many city states. And while the nationalism destory empires, it also bulit nations. Italy was one of the country that form from the territory of crumbling empires.

Also it is like loyalty and devotion to one's nation or country, especially as above loyalty to other groups or to individual interests. And before the era of the nation-state, the primary allegiance of most people was to their immediate locality or religious groups.