Italy
Italian Republic Repubblica Italiana
CAPITAL: Rome (Roma)
FLAG: The national flag is a tricolor of green, white, and red vertical stripes.
ANTHEM: Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy).
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Italy
Situated in southern Europe, Italy is a peninsula of 301,230 square kilometers (116,275 square miles) that includes two large islands: Sicily, which is separated by the Straits of Messina (only ...
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Italy
POPULATION 57,715,625ROMAN CATHOLIC 98 percentOTHER 2 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
Occupying a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian Republic is the third ...
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Eiffel Tower, and many more all belong to the country of Italy. Every year, millions of people come to visit the famous paintings, architectural buildings, and sample...
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The folktale recounted in this unit is titled Three Lost Princesses. It is illustrated with charming line art that will help hold your students' attention, as they begin their education in Italian ...
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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the hist...
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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the histo...
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Area: 301,336 sq km (116,346 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 58,888,000Capital:
Rome
Chief of state:
Presidents
Carlo Azeglio
Ciampi and, from May 15, Giorgio
Napolitano
Head of government:
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Italy's highest court has upheld a $290,000 damage award against a large tobacco company following the 1991 lung cancer death of a smoker, lawyers for the family said Monday.The ruling, which was m...
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Italy will mark the death of tenor Luciano Pavarotti with a series of concerts, film screenings, photographic retrospectives and other commemorative events at its cultural centers around the globe,...
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Former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi hit the campaign trail Friday without waiting to find out if the country faces early elections as a result of Premier Romano Prodi's resignation, which follo...
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Rome (dpa) - The Mafia represents Italy's biggest business
enterprise with an annual turnover of 90 billion euro (128 billion
dollars) a year, according to Italy's leading r...
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Italy began deporting Romanians with criminal records in response to a streak of violent crime blamed on immigrants, authorities said Saturday. A knife-wielding mob attacked a group of Romanians in...
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Italian officials warned Wednesday that negotiations with the J. Paul Getty Museum over allegedly looted antiquities are close to breaking down and suggested the Los Angeles museum could face sanct...
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Leading Italian politicians responded swiftly and vehemently after a Romanian Gypsy allegedly murdered a navy officer's wife: They announced 20,000 foreigners would be expelled from Rome alone.But ...
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With the return of a long-sought masterpiece of antiquity, Italy on Friday trumpeted one of the successes of its campaign to recover what it says are looted treasures from museums and collectors ar...
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