The Carabinieri are the national gendarmerie of Italy, carrying out domestic and foreign policing duties as a military force. They were founded as the police force of the Kingdom of Sardinia, instituted as the Royal Carabinieri Corps under Royal Patents of 13 July 1814, and in 1861 they were appointed the First Force of the new national military organization during Italian unification. In 2000 they were separated from the Army to become the fourth branch of the Italian Armed Forces. They come under the Ministry of Defence, while for inland public order and security they depend functionally on the Ministry of the Interior. During World War II they split between the Kingdom of Italy in the south and the Fascist Italian Social Republic in the north, and many Carabinieri joined the Italian resistance. They are often called La Benemerita, meaning the Reputable or the Meritorious.
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The Carabinieri are the national gendarmerie of Italy
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The Carabinieri are the national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carry out domestic and foreign policing duties.
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the Royal Carabinieri Corps was instituted under the Royal Patents of 13 July 1814
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The Carabinieri are the national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carry out domestic and foreign policing duties.
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The Carabinieri are the national gendarmerie of Italy
Fought In: World War II, 1930s and 1940s, World War II
During World War II, they fought in their function as military police against the Allied forces
Fought In: Second Italo-Ethiopian War, 1930s and 1940s, Ethiopia
they were involved in atrocities in colonial Italian East Africa during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
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