Republic of Alba (1944)
The Republic of Alba was a short-lived state that existed from 10 October to 2 November 1944 in Alba, northern Italy, as a local resistance against Italian fascism during World War II, and which was part of the so-called Italian Partisan Republics, the first of which was the Republic of Corniolo. It was named after the Napoleonic Republic of Alba that existed in 1796 in Piedmont.
Republic of Alba Repubblica di Alba | |||||||||
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| 1944–1944 | |||||||||
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| Status | Unrecognized state | ||||||||
| Capital | Alba | ||||||||
| Common languages | Italian | ||||||||
| Government | Partisan republic | ||||||||
| Historical era | World War II | ||||||||
• Established | October 10 1944 | ||||||||
• Conquered | November 2 1944 | ||||||||
| Currency | Italian lira | ||||||||
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Alba was conquered by two thousand people on the 10th of October
and two hundred lost it on the 2nd of November
of the year 1944— Beppe Fenoglio, The Twenty-three Days of the City of Alba
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