Repubblica de Triveneto

Triveneto is a small country on the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It is bordered by Austria and Switzerland to the north, Yugoslavia to the east, Repubblica Piemontese to the south and west. It is a member of the Adriatic Space Exploration and Research Center, based in Belgrade.

Formation and Inter-War Years
Triveneto (Le Tre Venezie) has a history of being traded between larger powers -- Austria, Italy, and Germany -- and during the fascist period the recently incorporated into Italy regions of Venezia Tridentina and Venezia Giulia were particularly targeted by fascist Italicization campaigns. Venetian, Friulian, Ladin, and Slovene were banned from use in public space and many dissidents were sent to prisons in the south of Italy.

At the onset of the Italian Civil War in 1927, a coalition of anti-fascist resistance fighters came together. While allied with the Popular Front growing in the peninsula, geographic separation kept the two resistance movements very independent, a fact compounded by the different linguistic and cultural makeup of the two groups.

At San Marino during the peace negotiations, representatives from the Venetian resistance demanded recognition of their own sovereignty, a move which was backed by the Popular Front. In the decade after the Civil War Triveneto and the Italian People's Republic had close ties and the two had entered into a defensive pact in 1935 knowing that an attack from fascist forces was imminent.