capture of Rijeka. D'Annunzio declared the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city; its system of government influenced the development of Fascism. It became a model for an alternative parliamentary order sought by the Fascists. The Impresa di Fiume brought about the fall of the Nitti government under pressure from the Italian Socialist Party, D'Annunzio, and Benito Mussolini. Nitti's successor Giolitti and "democratic renouncers" of Dalmatian heritage were next criticised by the nationalists. D'Annunzio formulated the charge in the slogan "Victory of ours, you shall not be mutilated", referencing the promise of Dalmatia given in the Treaty of London, failure to annex the "utterly Italian" city of Rijeka, and elusive Adriatic domination as rendering Italian participation in the war meaningless. His position thus gave rise to the myth of the mutilated victory. Following the , Albanian forces compelled evacuation of the garrison deployed to Vlorë in the course of the 1920 Vlora War. Only Sazan Island was kept by Italy. On 22 July, Italy renounced the Venizelos–Tittoni agreement and guaranteed Albanian independence within its 1913 borders instead. Italy directly contacted the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes regarding a compromise on their borders on the eastern Adriatic shores. The border was settled by the Treaty of Rapallo, assigning Italy Istria and the Julian March as well as the city of Zadar as an Italian enclave in Dalmatia, along with a number of islands. Giolitti had the Italian Navy drive D'Annunzio from Rijeka, and the city became the Free State of Fiume under provisions of the Treaty of Rapallo. It comprised settlement of the border awarding Italy territory on the Snežnik Plateau north of Rijeka and a strip of land between the city and Italian-controlled Istria. The Treaty of Rapallo nonetheless added 350,000 Slovenes and Croats to the population of Italy. See also Treaties of Rome – 1941 treaties awarding Italy a similar part of the eastern Adriatic shore References Sources Further reading 1915 in London 1915 in Italy Modern history of Italy 1915 in Croatia Partition (politics) London (1915), Treaty of Treaties concluded in 1915 London (1915), Treaty of London (1915), Treaty of London (1915), Treaty of London (1915), Treaty of London (1915), Treaty of Political history of Slovenia 20th century in Slovenia France–Italy relations Italy–United Kingdom relations Italy–Russia relations Konya vilayet History of the Slovene Littoral Kingdom of Serbia Kingdom of Montenegro Adriatic question April 1915 events