Due Sicilie (Italian for Two Sicilies) is a secession movement in southern Italy. The Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Italian: il Regno delle Due Sicilie) was the new name that the Bourbon King Ferdinand IV of Naples bestowed upon his domain (including Southern Italy and the island of Sicily) after the end of the Napoleonic Era and the full restoration...

According to Due Sicile, Southern Italy is historically, linguistically, and ethnically separate from Northern Italy. The group advocates independence for Sicily and the Mezzogiorno (southern Italy), which it holds was wrongfully incorporated into Italy during the Risorgimento. The Risorgimento, they claim, was the beginning of a 146 year long Sardinian occupation that continues to this day. Sicily (Sicilia in Italian, Sicilian and Spanish, Σικελία in Greek) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 km² and 5 million inhabitants. ... Southern Italy, often referred to as the Mezzogiorno, encompasses at least four of the countrys 20 regions: Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, and Puglia. ... Italian unification, also known as Risorgimento (resurrection), was a historical process by which the Kingdom of Sardinia (ruled by the Savoy dynasty with Turin as its capital) gradually conquered the Italian peninsula, including the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Duchy of Modena, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy...

Due Sicilie is an advocate of Sicilian & Neapolitan culture, going so far as holding a course in the Neapolitan language.

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