Italy

Spain Spain? Intriguing - I would have thought an alliance with Mussolini, Italy's leader.

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A popular legend has said the Marco Polo introduced pasta to Italy following his exploration in the late 13th century; however, we can trace pasta back as far as the fourth century B.C.E., where an Etruscan tomb showed a group of natives making what appears to be pasta. The Chinese were making a noodle-like food as early as 3000 B.C.E.

Here are ten facts. Hopefully they will be helpful. 1) Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Party ruled Italy since 1922. The Italian King Victor Emmanuel II remained as a firgurehead, much like Hirohito in Japan. 2) Italy formed an alliance with Nazi Germany before the war, and they were later joined by Japan. 3) Battle of France, Italy invaded and captured the French Riviera in 1940. 4) Battle of Britain, the Regia Aeronautica joined the Luftwaffe to bomb Great Britain. Italian submarines patroled the South Atlantic while German submarines patroled the North Atlantic. 5) Italy invaded Greece from puppet state of Albania in 1941. The invasion faltered, and Germany invaded Greece through Yugoslavia to help Italy. Later, Italian and German forces fought in Yugoslavia and Russia, and German forces were sent to help Italy in North Africa and the Mediterranean. 6) In 1943 Sicily was invaded by the Allies, and Italy had only ten divisions left to defend the country. Mussolini was overthrown and Italy surrendered. Germany invaded Italy and held the Allies there until the German surrender in 1945. Hitler also sent a special unit to rescue Mussolini from prison, and he ruled a government in exile from Milan. 7) From 1940-43, the Italian Navy sunk a million tons of Allied shipping in the South Atlantic, and 3/4 million tons in the Mediterranean. 8) An Italian field army in WW2 normally consisted of ten divisions, but most of their equipment and training was was poor, and their officers were mostly promoted for their connections within the Fascist Party rather than their merit. 9) The Italian Navy was the most powerful in the Mediterranean when Italy entered the war, but they received a crippling blow from the British at Taranto Harbor. Also, the British Navy controlled Matla, Alexandria, and Gibraltar, and the Italian Navy was under direct orders from Mussolini not to look for fight the British Navy. 10) The Regia Aeronautica was large and powerful, and their pilots were well-trained, but Italy could not provide them with enough fuel and other essentials for war.

The ethnic groups in Italy consists mainly of Italians, and some British folk. French are prevalent as well.

The Southern parts of Italy (Sicily and Calabria) still have a Greek population, as these two regions were part of the Ancient Greek and Byzantine empires until the middle ages. They then joined the rest of the independent and papal states to form a united Italy in 1861.

Rome has influenced the world greatly. Languages such as French, Portuguese, English, Spanish all have ties to the Latin language. Many modern day buildings are based on Roman architecture. Famous buildings such as the White House copy Roman style architecture by using arches and columns. All of our months of the year, days of the week, and even the names of planets come from Romes empire. Democracy got its start in Rome. Romans invented aquaducts, which are now modern day water systems. They invented the very useful building tool known as concrete. They were the first to make and inforce laws that were voted on by the senate or other people. Every city has a main gathering square, just like Rome did.

Because the leaders of those two countries were more powerful than the western powers and the soviet union. They were also, by far, more aggressive and brutal when it came to fighting battles.

Gianluigi Buffon had played 140 times for Italy before the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

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Italy is an example of an unitary government. However, there are many more countries with this form of government, including Chile, Haiti, Portugal. and Panama. An unitary government is one in which the central government has all the power.

to get better jobs and get away from poverty.

Italy has won 4 world cups in 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006. This can be called `the fab four`
Italy have won the world cup four times, with their most recent win being in 2006. They have won it in 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006.

The Poles, New Zealanders, Canadians, Americans, Ghurkas, French and Australians fought against the Nazi Germans at Monte Cassino. After a month of brutal fighting, The Polish Second Corps under General Wladyslaw Anders conquered the monastery located on the top of the Monte Cassino on May 18, 1944. The Polish casualties included 924 dead, 345 missing, and 2,930 injured. The total allied casualties were approximately 55,000. The battle of Monte Cassion is considered to be among the bloodiest battles of WWII, in addition to the battle of Stalingrad, The Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the battle of Kursk and the Normandy Landing.

The same as it is in just about every developed country - growing and preparing food and beverages, retail sales and shopping of goods and food, housing (renting, construction, maintenance, etc.), schooling, medical care, banking, etc.

It is a very rare society where more than a half of the work is connected to export. In Italy, the GDP is about $1.8 trillion and the exports are about $0.5 trillion.

There have been two World Wars, and Italy has been involved directly in both of them.

Italy used the florin during the 1400's. It was worth about 2 shillings then.

Italian Somaliland, Ethiopia, then Libya.

The oldest ruin in Rome is the Temple of Saturn,originally built in about 493 BC. Rebuilt in 43 BC and again in about 350 AD. The oldest complete building in Rome, also considered the best preserved building of ancient times, is the Pantheon. It was built before Christ and rebuilt in about 125 AD. The architect for the rebuild gave credit to the original architect (Agippa) with the inscription over the portal in Latin, loosely translated in English says: "Agippa built this".

Italy and Germany had basically always been divided since Charlemagne died, not counting loose groupings like the Holy Roman Empire; however, presumably you are asking about the Congress of Vienna in 1815. During his wars, Napoleon had tried to unify Germany and Italy as countries allied with him; after he was defeated for good, the countries who had defeated him, as well as France, met in Vienna and reaffirmed that Germany and Italy would remain divided, among other things.

well, some of the ways u can tell if someones Italian by seeing if their last name ends in lli, my friends last name is dimicelli and that's Italian, or sometimes if the last name ends in an "ey" kind of sound its Italian, im itlian so i'd know haha.

First of all, you are grammatically incorrect. It should be "Does Italy have a president?"

Secondly, I do not know.

Italy under Benito Mussolini became part of the Axis powers with Germany (and later Japan). The Axis forces were opposed by 'the Allies'. Italy began its part in World War 2 on June 10, 1940 by helping Germany invade France. This brought Italy into war with France, and Great Britain (& Commonwealth countries). There were other allied nations: Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, & Poland-that were already occupied by the Germans or soon to be. So you can also count these as enemies of Italy in 1940. Some other countries would join the Axis during the war-these were Hungary, Croatia (after Yugoslavia was occupied), Bulgaria & Rumania. Italy had already attacked and occupied Eithopia (in East Africa). Italy had already occupied Albania, and then would attack Greece in October 1940. In 1941 Germany would attack Yugoslavia and Greece (to help Italy), thereby adding Yugoslavia to the growing list of Italy's enemies. Stalin's Russia was a temporary ally of Hitler's Germany August 1939 to July 1941. Russia was not part of the Axis, however when Hitler attacked Russia in July 1941, then Italy also participated in the fight against Russia. By the way, after Germany & Italy defeated France in 1940, a French puppet government (Vichy France) ran the southern half of France on behalf of Germany. So you could say that Vichy France was an ally of the Axis. Well in December 1941, thanks to the Japanese attacks on the United States, and Germany's declaration of war on the USA, Mussolini (Italy) declared war on the USA also. The widening of the war in the Pacific and now including the US added to Italy's enemies list: USA, China, Brazil, Portugal and a few other nations in Asia & Central & South America. In 1943 the Allies invaded & seized Sicily (part of Italy), and then invaded the Italian mainland at Salerno, south of Naples. These events caused the majority of the Italian people to turn against Mussolini. The Italian government would split into the two factions: Pro-German Fascists and the Pro-Allies Republican. The Republican faction of government was formally endorsed by Italy's King, and ended its war with the allies, and would later declare war on Germany, thus switching sides while German forces resisted the Allied invasion in Italy. The part of Italy occupied by Germany would be in-name only aligned with Germany under Fascist leadership. Most Italians were now sympathetic to the Allied cause and considered Allied forces to be liberators. Italy would end the war on the side of the allies, however its earlier siding with Germany would put it in an unusual political position at the end of the war. Also Bulgaria & Rumania would switch sides to the Allies after the Russians invaded.