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Originally Posted by Ederico
In Italian it would be il nostro mare, or as it was often called in the era mare nostrum in Latin.
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Sorry, my mistake (in French it is "la mer", feminine). I have to reactivate my Italian skills.
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Originally Posted by Ederico
The case for Malta and Corsica was not imperialistic bur irredentist. Their populations were both considered Italian. I cannot speak for the Corsicans obviously.
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I have never said that his pretentions were all imperialistic, and obviously his claim to Malta was not an imperialistic one. As for Corsica, to my knowledge Corsican people are as anti-Italian as anti-French; they really are a Nation of their own.