Italia
Details
- Names
Italia
Repubblica italiana
Italy
Italian Republic
Italie
République italienne
Italien
Itália
Italië
ITA
IT
ISO380
IT00
Esperia
Italian
- Place Type
- nation
- Description
- Inhabited since 50,000 BCE; settled by Indo-Europeans 1850 BCE, Etruscans 1600 BCE, and Greeks 800 BCE; united by Romans 270 BCE; independent states rose after fall of Holy Roman Empire, notably Naples, Milan, Florence, Venice and papacy; reunited in the 19th century; official language is Italian, though significant minorities speak German, French, and Slovene.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Britannica Book of the Year (1991); Britannica Book of the Year (1993); CIA, World Fact Book (1995); Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Engels Woordenboek (1987); Gallerie degli Uffizi database (1987-); ISO Country Codes (1996); ISO Handbook (1988); Langenscheidt German Dictionary (1974); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999)...
- Born
- Active
Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, active England and Italy, 1599-1641)
Adam Elsheimer (German, active Italy, 1578-1610)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806)
Gary Green (American, born 1956)
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