As a country that belongs to European Union according to allcountrylist.com, Italy is bordered to the south by the seas of the Mediterranean Sea, Tyrrhenian, Ionian, to the south and east, and to the north by the Adriatic Sea, Slovenia and Austria and to the northwest by France, Switzerland and the Ligurian Sea, in the Mediterranean. Within the Italian...
Renaissance, foreign rule and unification (14th to 19th centuries) The Black Death pandemic killed a third of the country’s population in 1348.17 Between the 14th and 16th centuries, Italy was not a political unit as it was fragmented into multiple states....
Early Cultures and Iron Age During the Iron Age, several cultures followed each other that can be differentiated into three major geographic nuclei, that of Ancient Lazio, that of Magna Grecia and that of Etruria. One of these cultures, the Ligurians, were an enigmatic people who inhabited...
Area: 301,338 km² Residents: 60,375,749 (November 30, 2018) Population density: 200 E / km² Form of Government: Parliamentary republic System of Government: Parliamentary democracy Neighboring countries: France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia Capital: Rome National language: Italian Regional official languages: German, French, Ladin, Slovenian religions: 80.2% Roman Catholic, 1.6% Muslim, 0.4% Jehovah’s Witnesses...
With Charles VIII’s procession from France to Naples (1494/95), which he wanted to take possession of as the heir of the Anjou, and the interventions of his successor Louis, which failed because of the Holy League of Pope, Emperor, Milan, Venice...
