has sicily ever considered independence from italy?

Question

there are a unique culture that is seperated from rest of italy geographically and ecomically. sicilians (and south neapolitans) are a mix of latin, greek, arab, norman, turkish influences.

Answer 1

The Movement for the Independence of Sicily (Italian: Movimento per l'Indipendenza della Sicilia, MIS) is a separatist movement, active in Sicily from 1943 to 1947 and again since 2004, with the goal to obtain independence of the island from Italy.

The movement was founded in the September of 1942 as Committee for the Independence of Sicily (Comitato per l'Indipendenza della Sicilia, CIS) finding inspiration in the Sicilian Vespers, with Andrea Finocchiaro Aprile serving as its first president. The movement included members of very different political views, such as revolutionary socialist Antonio Canepa, centre-wing Giovanni Guarino Amella, right-wing people, most of them aristocrats, such as baron Lucio Tasca and duke Guglielmo Paternò, and members with close ties to the Mafia.

The movement gained presence and support following the Armistice of Cassibile of September 8, 1943, which brought Italy to actually abandon the island, while the U.S. troops still were in verge of completing the military occupation of Sicily. On October 1943, Finocchiaro Aprile asked the King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III to abdicate, and successively gained support to his cause from about ten Sicilian deputies. In the spring of 1944, the CIS was disbanded and the Movement for the Independence of Sicily (MIS) was founded. During those days, the Allies prohibited any kind of political activity, but tolerated the existance of the MIS. Several politicians with strong ties with the Mafia, such as Calogero Vizzini and Calogero Volpe, joined the MIS; however, all of them soon later left the MIS in order to join the newborn Italian parties, such as the Christian Democracy and the Italian Communist Party.

In the fall of 1944, during the first congress held in Taormina, the MIS decided to army under pushes from its more radical members. The EVIS (Esercito Volontario per l'Indipendenza della Sicilia, Volunteer Army for the Independence of Sicily) was founded, and all its operation led the Italian central government to send its troops in Sicily. On June 17, 1945, following an armed clash with the Carabinieri, Antonio Canepa, head of the EVIS, was murdered.

After the end of World War II, a special council started working on a special autonomy statute for Sicily, which was approved by King Humbert II on May 15, 1946, and was finally approved by the Italian parliament on February 26, 1948.

In the Italian general election, 1946, MIS obtained 0.7% of national votes (8.8% of votes in Sicily), and four seats, including its leader Finocchiaro Aprile. During the 1947 congress, Antonino Varvaro, former secretary and leading member of the left wing, was expelled by the party from the majority. The reasons remained unknown. Following these events, Varvaro founded a rival independist movement, MISDR, which did not achieve much success and disbanded soon. In the first Sicilian elections held in 1947, MIS obtained circa 9% of votes, and eight seats. However, the movement lost all its seats following the Italian general election, 1948 and the 1951 regional election. Soon after the latter, Finocchiaro Aprile and several other members resigned from MIS and the movement entered into a sort of political hiatus, never being formally disbanded. The party was relaunched in 2004, however its relevance at the regional level is negligible

Answer 2

Sicily has never had turkish influence.Sardinia,Sud tyrol consider the indipendence,still now especially in Sardinia there is a strong indipendent moviment with bombs in police stations.In Sicily i never heard a strong indipendent moviment because has not a big ethnic and cultural difference with the rest of Italy,not like the germans in South Tyrol.

Answer 3

And they just got started! It isn't as if Italy in its current form is that old a country. They are different, but that could be said for twenty different regions. And just for giggles you might google Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, for one.

Answer 4

sicily is an "autonomous" region of italy