Editing Salerno (section)

===Late modern and contemporary===
Salerno was an active center of [[Carbonari]] activities supporting the unification of Italy in the 19th century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lacittadisalerno.gelocal.it/dettaglio/la-rivoluzione-vittoriosa-e-la-nascita-di-un-nuovo-stato/2958812 |title=La rivoluzione vittoriosa e la nascita di un nuovo Stato |author=Carmine Pinto |date=13 December 2010 |website=la Città |language=it |access-date=9 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303223653/http://lacittadisalerno.gelocal.it/dettaglio/la-rivoluzione-vittoriosa-e-la-nascita-di-un-nuovo-stato/2958812 |archive-date=3 March 2012}}</ref> The majority of the population of Salerno supported ideas of the [[Risorgimento]] against the [[Leopold, Prince of Salerno|Bourbon]], and in 1861 many of them joined [[Garibaldi]] in his struggle for unification.<ref>Seton-Watson, "Italy from Liberalism to Fascism, 1870–1925".</ref>

After the [[unification of Italy]], a slow urban development continued, many suburban areas were enlarged and large public and private buildings were created. The city went on developing until [[World War II]]. Its population rose from 20,000 people around 1861s unification to 80,000 in the early 20th century.

During the 19th century, foreign industries started settling in Salerno: in 1830 the first textile mill was established by the Swiss entrepreneur Züblin Vonwiller, followed by Schlaepfer-Wenner's textile mills and dye factories; the Wenner family settled permanently in Salerno. In 1877 the city was the site of as many as 21 textile mills employing around ten thousand workers; in comparison with the four thousand employed in Turin's textile industry, Salerno was sometimes referred to as the "[[Manchester]] of the two Sicilies".
[[File:Invasionofitaly1943.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Allied landing at Salerno (September 1943)]]

In September 1943, during World War II, Salerno was the scene of [[Allied invasion of Italy#Salerno landings|Operation Avalanche]], the [[Allied invasion of Italy|invasion of Italy]] launched by the [[Allies of World War II]], and suffered a great deal of damage. [[Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington]], who was killed in action during the fighting, is buried in Salerno War Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2604196/wellesley,-henry-valerian-george/ |title=Casualty Details &#124; CWGC |website=www.cwgc.org |access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125201345/https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2604196/wellesley,-henry-valerian-george/ |url-status=live }}</ref> From 12 February to 17 July 1944, it hosted the Government of Marshal [[Pietro Badoglio]]. In those months Salerno was the provisional government seat of the [[Kingdom of Italy]], and the King [[Victor Emmanuel III|Vittorio Emanuele III]] lived in a mansion in its outskirts.

After the war the population of the city doubled in a few years, going from 80,000 in 1946 to nearly 160,000 in 1976.