Regions Italy had long considered as Italian, such as Corsica, Savoy, Nice and Tunisia, remained under French control, while what German colonies there were went mostly to the British. But at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference the three pre-eminent powers (the US, the UK and France) largely broke with their promises to lesser allies: Italy gained only the provinces of South Tyrol and Trieste, while the British and French divided the colonial world between them and Dalmatia was handed over to the newly-founded Yugoslavia. With the war's end, Italy had anticipated its promised reward would be commensurate with Italian losses in the Alps. In exchange for promises of significant territorial expansion, Italy had sided with the French and British. Italy was a member of the victorious Entente when World War 1 ended in 1918. Italy's location in the center of the Mediterranean causes Italy to be a dominant force in the region. Italy is surrounded by the Adriatic Sea to the East and the Mediterranean sea to the South and west. Italy borders France to the Northwest, Switzerland and Austria to the North, and Yugoslavia to the East. It is dominated by the Alps to the north, the Apennine mountains through most of the mainland, and flatlands in the south and Sicilian Island. Its terrain is mainly made of hills, with the peninsula having some coastal plains on the east and west sides of its rugged central spine. It also contains territory in Zara (on the Dalmatian coast) and the Dodecanese (Aegean Sea), with African colonies in Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia.

Italy is located in Southern Europe and consists of the Italian peninsula and the islands of Sicily and Sardinia to the west.

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