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Corfiot Italians
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This is the article for Corfiot Italians. It is not to be confused with Corfiot Italkian, the Judeo-Italian dialect spoken in Corfu.
Corfiot Italians are a population from the Greek island of Corfu (Kerkyra) with ethnic and linguistic ties to the Republic of Venice. Their name was specifically established by Niccolò Tommaseo during the Italian Risorgimento.[1] During the first half of the 20th century, Mussolini (whose fascist regime promoted the ideals of Italian irredentism) successfully used the Corfiot Italians as a pretext to occupy Corfu twice.
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