Countries of the Italian Empire

That was the first one I entered. The Vatican was cast free by Mussolini and he certainly didn't have a say in jack squat in anything other than just how quickly to say "yes sir" during WW1.

Properly the Pope State (Stato della Chiesa) was extended over four Italian regions and it ceased to exist when it was annexed by the rest of Italy in 1870. The Holy See continued to reign as a spiritual institution over the Christianity but no territorial sovereignty was recognized until Mussolini and Pius XI signed the Lateran Agreements (Patti Lateranensi) in 1929. Vatican City as a modern recognized country began to exist that date, and since then it has never been occupied nor heavily influenced or manoeuvred such as San Marino was. The Pope was granted his influential juridical personality even against the willing of Mussolini and Hitler, although not too openly (e.g. by saving Jews inside the walls of the Vatican). :)

You're welcome

I don't know what the quizmaker meant, but the first two columns are in alphabetical order, so the headers must be wrong.

Italian troops were supporting spanish fascist rebels in the civil war (1936-1939) but not invading Spain or claiming any territory.

Ethiopia is frequently considered to have been 'occupied' and never actually 'colonized' by Italy, therefore Ethiopia was never colonized. This is because Italy never had the time to actually impose any cultural changes etc. as the local inhabitants kept rebelling. At least so I have understood.

Libya not Liberia.

Pretty sure Qingdao or Tientsin were colonized, but I am probably wrong

If you click on "this" in "according to this", you'll se that kosovo is missing entirely :-D

Actually @thegreatduck is right. The whole of Kosovo and tiny parts of Serbia were briefly occupied too during WW2. Just relying on roughly made maps made by wiki users is quite inaccurate, as you might figure out here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_occupation_of_Serbia where more detailed maps and description are provided. You're welcome!

And also San Marino, if we admit that this microstate was never formally annexed but it was deeply influenced under every point of view during the Fascism (sort of puppet regime)

One for Italian Somaliland and one for British Somaliland (nowadays unrecognized independent Somaliland), the latter was shortly occupied during WW2

During those four years indeed it was part of "Italian East Africa". Brutally occupied and never completely subjugated but this is not relevant for this quiz.

The quiz is about modern-day countries whose modern territory was controlled by the Italian Empire at some point. South Sudan belongs here.