Word: tyrol
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...still they recognized the advantages of an alliance which would at the same time free them from external and internal fears. Italy had to make sacrifices to enjoy these advantages. It was hard to enter into an alliance with a power which was cruelly tyrannizing over two Italian provinces, Tyrol and Triste, but the good of the country at large demanded that it should be done. Italy will never be satisfied until she regains possession of these provinces, but Signor Chrispi wisely reasoned that he was not in a position to engage in war and consequently concluded the alliance which...