List of massacres in Italy
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The following is a list of massacre
s that have occurred in Italy
and its predecessors (numbers may be approximate):
Massacre
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s that have occurred in Italy
Italy
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and its predecessors (numbers may be approximate):
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acca Larentia killings | January 7, 1978 | Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... |
3 | |
| Ardeatine massacre Ardeatine massacre The Fosse Ardeatine massacre was a mass execution carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome.... |
March 24, 1944 | Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... |
335 | |
| Bava-Beccaris massacre Bava-Beccaris massacre The Bava Beccaris massacre, named after the Italian General Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris, refers to the repression of widespread riots in Milan in May 1898.... |
May 9, 1898 | Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... |
118-450 | 400-2000 wounded |
| Biscari massacre Biscari massacre The Biscari massacre includes two World War II incidents in which U.S. soldiers were involved in killing 71 unarmed German and Italian prisoners of war at Biscari on 14 July, 1943.-Background:... |
July 14, 1943 | Biscari (now Acate Acate Acate is a small town and comune in the south of Sicily, Italy, part of the province of Ragusa. It is located in the Dirillo River valley, 34 kilometers from Ragusa.... ) |
71 | |
| August 1980 Bologna bombing | August 2, 1980 | Bologna Bologna Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,... |
85 | 200+ wounded |
| Canicattì massacre | July 1943 | Canicattì Canicattì Canicattì is a comune in the Province of Agrigento in the Italian region Sicily, located about 90 km southeast of Palermo and about 25 km east of Agrigento.-History:... |
8 | |
| Ciaculli massacre Ciaculli massacre The Ciaculli massacre on 30 June 1963 was caused by a car bomb that exploded in Ciaculli, an outlying suburb of Palermo, killing seven police and military officers sent to defuse it after an anonymous phone call. The bomb was intended for Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco, head of the Sicilian Mafia... |
June 30, 1963 | Ciaculli Ciaculli Ciaculli is an outlying suburb of Palermo, Sicily in Italy. It counts less than 5000 residents. Ciaculli is close to the suburb of Croceverde. Ciaculli has been important within the history of the Cosa Nostra. The best known Mafia family is the Greco Mafia clan... |
7 | |
| Sack of Genoa Sack of Genoa The Sack of Genoa is a historic event happened between Thursday April 5 and Wednesday April 11, 1849.The uprising broke out in Genoa after that king Vittorio Emanuele II signed the armistice with the Austrian general Joseph Radetzky on March 25.In the unrest that led to a temporary restoration of... |
April 5-6, 1849 | Genoa Genoa Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria.... |
1000 | |
| Marzabotto massacre Marzabotto massacre The Marzabotto massacre was a World War II mass murder of at least 770 civilians by Germans, which took place in the territory around the small village of Marzabotto, in the mountainous area south of Bologna... |
September 29-October 5, 1944 | Marzabotto Marzabotto Marzabotto is a small town and comune in Italian region Emilia-Romagna, part of the province of Bologna. It is located 27 km SSW of Bologna by rail, and lies in the valley of the Reno... |
770+ | |
| Portella della Ginestra massacre Portella della Ginestra massacre The Portella della Ginestra massacre was one of the more violent acts of in the history of modern Italian politics, when 11 people were killed and 33 wounded during May Day celebrations in Sicily on May 1, 1947, in the municipality of Piana degli Albanesi... |
May 1, 1947 | Piana degli Albanesi Piana degli Albanesi Piana degli Albanesi is a comune with 6,427 inhabitants in the Province of Palermo, Sicily.The town is the most important and populous Arbëreshë community in Sicily and it is the episcopal see of the Byzantine Catholic Church... |
11 | 33 wounded |
| Pizzolungo massacre Pizzolungo massacre The Pizzolungo bombing was the result of a car-bomb attack on April 2, 1985, by the Mafia to kill the magistrate Carlo Palermo in Pizzolungo, suburb of Erice, in Sicily. Palermo was only injured, but a young woman, Barbara Asta, and her little sons, the twin-brothers Salvatore and Giuseppe, that... |
April 2, 1985 | Erice Erice Erice is a historic town and comune in the province of Trapani in Sicily, Italy.Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around 750m above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo san Vito to the north-east, and... |
3 | 5 wounded |
| Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre was a Nazi German atrocity in the village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, in the course of an operation against the Italian resistance movement in 1944, during the Italian Campaign of World War II.-Facts:... |
August 12, 1944 | Sant'Anna di Stazzema Sant'Anna di Stazzema Sant'Anna di Stazzema is a village in Tuscany in central Italy. Administratively, it is a frazione of the comune of Stazzema, in the province of Lucca.... |
560 | |
| Train 904 bombing Train 904 bombing The Train 904 bombing, also known as the Christmas Massacre, was a terror attack which occurred on December 23, 1984, in the Apennine Base Tunnel. A bomb on the 904 express train from Naples to Milan was detonated, killed 17 and wounded 267... |
December 23, 1984 | San Benedetto Val di Sambro San Benedetto Val di Sambro San Benedetto Val di Sambro is a comune in the Province of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 35 km southwest of Bologna.-External links:*... |
17 | 267 wounded |
| Viale Lazio massacre Viale Lazio massacre The Viale Lazio massacre on December 10, 1969, was a settling of accounts in the Sicilian Mafia. Mafia boss Michele Cavataio and three men were killed in the Viale Lazio in Palermo by a Mafia hit squad... |
December 10, 1969 | Palermo Palermo Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old... |
5 |