1961 R Silver 500 Lira Italian Commemorative Coin. Celebrating 100 Years Of Unification And Creation Of Italy As A Country. 500 Lira Graded By Seller Circulated Condition

The Risorgimento, also known as the unification of Italy, was a 19th-century political and social movement that aimed to consolidate various states of the Italian Peninsula into a single state, resulting in the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. The movement was inspired by rebellions in the 1820s and 1830s against the Congress of Vienna's outcomes, and it was accelerated by the Revolutions of 1848. The process was completed in 1871 following the Capture of Rome, when it became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. However, some states targeted for unification did not join until after Italy's victory over Austria-Hungary in World War I, in 1918. As a result, historians consider the unification period to have extended past 1871, including activities during the late 19th century and World War I, and it was not completed until the Armistice of Villa Giusti on 4 November 1918. The Central Museum of the Risorgimento at the Vittoriano uses this broader definition of the unification period.