Italy (Rise of Roses)

The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia) is a kingdom comprising the Italian Peninsula and parts of Dalmatia. It's one of the richest states on Europe, and it had an empire between the discovery of Colombia on 1595 and the creation of the Italian Commonwealth in 1960.

History
The Kingdom of Italy was a collection of city-states until the Lombard Dux of Tuscany is able to make all of the Lombard nations (Milan, Tuscany, Venice, Urbino, Ferrara, Modena, San Marino, Tirol) join Tuscany. Then he proclaims the Kingdom of Italy, placing it's capital on the city of Florence. This all happened on 1589. By 1595, the Papal States had given the Kingdom of Italy all of their Italian territory. By 1599, Spain and Italy contested for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Colonization Period (1595-1620 C.E)
Columbus, a Genoese shipman, had already discovered the Americas in service of the King of Spain. Italy soon seized the chance, establishing the Colony of Colombia on the OTL Gulf of Urabá by 1595. The Italians soon expulsed the Spanish colonists already stationed there, leading to the Itallo-Spanish Crisis and then the War of the Two Sicilies, which was a victory for Italy. The Italian peninsula was now unified, and Colombia too.

Italy, deciding it was not worth it to continue having crisis with Spain, only colonized the Ithsmus of Panama, consolidating the Italian territories on South America and the land of "Nuova Italia" (Newfoundsland) on America. The Italian gaze was then focused on Africa.

Africa was colonized quickly. By 1597, the Italian empire extended from a few towns in Tunis to occupy all of it and Lybia. By 1590, it had already occupied Sudan, and by 1620, it had arrived at East Africa, conquered the Buganda kingdom, and defeated the indigenous empires of the area.

Consolidation
Italy then started a large consolidation campaign.