Italy

The city of Rome is Roma, Italy. It is the capital of the region of Lazio (Latium) and also capital of the country Italy (Italia) which is located in Europe.

Located in southern Europe, Italy is a peninsula extending into the Central Mediterranean Sea. It is shaped like a high-heeled boot kicking a "triangle"-the island of Sicily. Italy borders France to the west, Switzerland and Austria to the north, and Slovenia to the east. The country also shares a border with 2 tiny independent states, San Marino and the Vatican, both of which are entirely surrounded by Italian territory. Italy has an area of 301,230 square kilometers (116,304 square miles) and a coastline of 7,600 kilometers (4,722 miles), including the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Comparatively, Italy is slightly larger than the state of Arizona. Rome, the capital city, is on the country's western coast at the heart of the peninsula. Other major cities include Milan, Naples, Genoa, Florence, Venice, Palermo, Bologna, and Bari.

The follows of Mussolini were called "Brown-Shirts or " Fascists."

It had caused Germany to grow resentment towards England and France for placing the treaty of Versailles on Germany limiting its army and having it pay for all the damages caused by the war. this had caused many Germans to be angry at the allies and that allow for the rise of Hitler who also hated the treaty.

VERY LITTLE-ITALY WITHOUT CONFERRING WITH HITLER, INVADED ALBANIA AND GREECE IN EARLY 1941 AND QUICKLY GOT BOGGED DOWN IN BOTH COUNTRIES AND EVEN HAD TO RETREAT WHICH WAS A MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT FOR MUSSOLINI! THAT CAUSED HITLER TO POSTPONE HIS INVASION PLANS FOR THE SOVIET UNION BY A CRITICAL 6 WEEKS! ITALY WAS ALWAYS A WEAK AND IMPOTENT ALLY FOR GERMANY ESPECIALLY IN NORTH AFRICA WHERE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ITALIANS SURRENDERED TO THE BRITISH AND AMERICANS AND ON THE EASTERN FRONT. THE GERMANS ALWAYS HAD TO COME TO THE ITALIANS RESCUE EXCEPT ETHIOPIA WHERE MUSSOLINI HAD INVADED BACK IN 1936 AND HELD ONTO UNTIL 1940 WHEN THE BRITISH TOOK IT OVER.

Geographical and politico-administrative divisions determine Italy's regions. Geographically, the Republic is divided into central, insular, northeastern, northwestern, and southern regions. Politico-administratively, it represents the coordination of five autonomous regions and of 15 regular divisions: Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Tuscany, Umbria, Veneto; and Aosta Valley, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sardinia, Sicily, Trentino-South Tyrol.

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando was the Prime Minister of the Italian Government from October 30,1917 to June 23,1919. At that time Italy was a kingdom and had no President, but king Vittorio Emanuele III as Supreme Head of the Nation.

Answer The Allies invaded Italy so they could continue to advance against the Nazi alliance and end the war sooner. Russia was fighting to hold back the German invasion of their country. The Allies promised to help Russia and the only way that they could was to continue to fight Germany where they could and prevent Germany from sending more troops into Russia. Italy was the only place that the Allies could attack and support the operation.

The first Italian landings were on the island of Sicily, in July 1943, with both British and American troops landing on the southern Sicilian coast at several locations. The Sicilian campaign lasted about six weeks.

After the conquest of Sicily, in September 1943 British troops crossed onto the toe of the Italian boot from Sicily, and other British troops came from Bizerte, Tunisia, in Africa, and landed at Taranto, on the instep. About a week later American troops landed at Salerno, on the shin, about twenty-five miles south of Naples. The day before the American landings Italy surrendered, but the Germans, who were already numerous in Italy, continued to defend against the Allies. The Germans were able to defend the rugged terrain very viciously, so the Allies tried an additional landing behind the German defensive lines in January 1944, coming ashore at Anzio and Nettuno, about twenty-five miles south of Rome.

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This is a relative question, that is, it can only be answered relative to some other country (e.g. Brazil). Is Italy rich? It depends how you measure wealth. If you use material wealth (i.e. income per capita, GDP, etc.) then Italy is wealthier than many nations (e.g. Russia, Brazil). In fact, according to GDP, it is the 7th largest economy in the World and has roughly the same income per capita as France or Spain. You could also answer this question based on other variables, such as life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality in which case Italy also ranks among the highest in World. Indeed, the UN's own World Health Organization (WHO) ranked the Italian Health care system as being 2nd Worldwide while other countries such as Canada and the US ranked respectively 30th and 37th.

Regarding the standard of living, Northern Italy (down south to appr. Rome) is one of Europe's wealthiest regions, comparable to e.g. Bavaria or Western Austria. Southern Italy's standard of living is comparable to that of the post-communist Central European countries, e.g. Hungary or Slovakia. Overall, the Italian standard of living is consistently ranked in the highest categories. For example, it has an HDI (Human development Index) of 0.945 which ranks next to countries such as Belgium or the US. The gap between rich and poor is moderate and defintely ranks better than the US. The gini coefficient (a standard measure of the gap between rich and poor where the lower the number the better) for Italy is at 36 while the US has a value at about 46.

All in all, Italy is easily qualifiable as a rich, developed Western country with an extremely rich cultural heritage.

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- Cement

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- Calvary

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POPULATION: 60,642,308

POPULATION GROWTH RATE: .42%

In the first decade of the 21st century, Italy has seen a population growth instead of population decline; due to massive immigration waves within the last two decades.

There is no real Italian dress, each state or part has there own costuming or style. Basicall y the women would where long dresses with corset type things over the top and the men would where shorts to the knees and shirts with waistcoats.

italy...but its not over yet. they play a series of games like they do in baseball.

These more extreme ideologies arose in the tumultuous climate of the Great Depression, both the extreme right with fascism and the extreme left with communism. Admittedly, the Soviet Union's communism is a product of the Russian Revolutions after World War I, but the regime got progressively more extreme in the 1930s.

It was the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried Pompeii in 79.

Considering the recent double overtime victory and the fact that most commentators agreed that Germany is in fact a better team, the answer is Germany.

Italy is one of the beautiful country in Europe, it's capital is Rome. It has 116,306 square mile area (Sicily and Sardinia Island included) with more than 57 million population. France, Austria, Slovenia and Switzerland are the nations that bordered the Italy.

Roman civilisation was made inprtant thriugh the vast Roman Empire. It was the second largest antiquity saw and the 17th largest in history. It created a vast ommon market where trade thrived and created prosperity before the empire was affected by repeated invasions from outside. It promoted the spread of Roman civilisation in large parts of Europe, in North Africa and in part of Western Asia. It also led to an amalgamation between the Roman and the Greek civilisations which led to Greco-Roman art and culture. This civilisation had a strong influence on the Europeans from the Renaissance (14th and 15th centuries) to the early 20th century.

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The "Ruler" of Italy in Ceremonial Proceedings would be the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel II who was actually the person who granted Mussolini the authority to become Prime Minister and form a government shortly after the March on Rome. If you were wondering who followed Mussolini as the Prime Minister, the answer would be General Pietro Badoglio who headed up the Provisional Military Government while Italy was still at war. He served as "prime minister" from July 25, 1943 to June 18, 1944.

I had the chance to talk with an Italian business man that lived in Italy during World War II. He fully hated the fascists, and used most of his money against it. However, many businessmen in Germany were great supporters of Hitler bringing the country out of the depression since World War I, so they struck many sorts of pacts and deals with Hitler. They benefited from Hitler.

No it was not. Formerly Italy had two capitals:

Turin from 1861 through 1865.

Florence from 1865 through 1871.

Rome became Capital on July 1, 1871.

Worth of noting is that:

After being sized by the Germans in September 1943, the provisional capital was Brindisi, from Sept. 1943 through February 1944 and then Salerno, from February through through June 1944.

Rome became again Capital of Italy after its liberation by the Allied Forces, in June 1944.

Christopher Columbus did not discover Italy. He was born in an "already discovered" Italy, specifically the Republic of Genoa. He discovered the Americas.

If the question intends to ask Why didn't Christopher Columbus claim his discovery for Italy?, please see the Related Question.