Kingdom of the South
The Kingdom of the South (Italian: Regno del Sud) was the short period of the Kingdom of Italy from 1943 to 1944, when Pietro Badoglio controlled the country in the aftermath of the German occupation of Italy in the latter part of World War II. During this period, the country was under the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories in southern Italy, as opposed to the German-occupied northern and central Italy, where the Italian Social Republic was established. Strictly speaking, the term is used with reference to the period between September 1943, when King Victor Emmanuel III and the government fled Rome to Brindisi in the aftermath of the Armistice of Cassibile until Rome was liberated by the Allies in June 1944 and resumed its function as capital of Italy.