Italy–Sweden relations refers to the bilateral relations between Italy and Sweden. The Ostrogoths, originating from the Goths from the current Swedish region of Götaland, were strongly linked, along with the Visigoths, to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and replacing it with the Ostrogothic Kingdom. But, unlike the Visigothic Kingdom, it was defeated in a short time by the Byzantine Empire. When Italy bombed the Swedish ambulance in Abyssinia in December 1935, protests began.