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Option 3 : Italy
The correct answer is Italy.
- Political fragmentation refers to the process of redistributing functions, powers, or people away from a central authority by incorporating autonomous entities such as municipalities and special districts.
- Italy had a long history of political fragmentation. Italians were scattered over several dynastic states as well as the multinational Habsburg empire.
- During the middle of the 19th century, Italy was divided into seven states of which only one, Sardinia- Piedmont was ruled by an Italian Princely House.
- The North was under Austrian Habsburg, the center was ruled by the pope and the Southern regions were under the domination of the Bourbon kings of Spain.
- Even the Italian language had not any standard common form. It had many regional and local variations.
Hence, Italy faced a long period of fragmentation.
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