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Political map of Italy in the year 1843. Following the defeat of Napoleon's France, the Congress of Vienna (1815) was convened to redraw the European continent. In Italy, the Congress restored the pre-Napoleonic patchwork of independent governments, either directly ruled or strongly influenced by the prevailing European powers, particularly ...
The final Allied victory over the Axis in Italy did not come until the spring offensive of 1945, after Allied troops had breached the Gothic Line, leading to the surrender of German and Fascist forces in Italy on 2 May shortly before Germany finally surrendered ending World War II in Europe on 8 May. It is estimated that between September 1943 ...
Latins- centered around the central plain of Italy between the Tiber and the Alban Hills. Romans- centered in the city of Rome. Falisci; The map shows the most important archaeological sites of Sicily related to pre-Hellenic cultures, as well as the possible extent of the cultures of the Elymians, Sicani and Sicels. Sicels [23]
In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Maps of ancient Rome (1 C) Maps of the Roman Empire (1 C) Media in category "Maps of the history of Italy"
The Pontine Marshes (/ ˈ p ɒ n t aɪ n / PON-tyne, US also / ˈ p ɒ n t iː n / PON-teen; Italian: Agro Pontino [ˈaːɡro ponˈtiːno], formerly also Paludi Pontine; Latin: Pomptīnus Ager [sg.] by Titus Livius, [1] Pomptīna Palus [sg.] and Pomptīnae Paludes [pl.] by Pliny the Elder [2] [3]) is an approximately quadrangular area of former ...
Fibonacci's Liber Abaci, a book on arithmetic, helps to popularise the Hindu–Arabic numeral system and brings the idea of the integer sequence known as the Fibonacci number to locations outside India. 1254: Marco Polo is born in the Republic of Venice. 1265: Dante Alighieri is born. He is considered the father of the Italian language for ...
Apollo of Veii, dating from around 510 BC, in the Villa Giulia museum of Rome. Fidenae and Veii were said to have again been defeated by Rome in the 7th century BC during the reign of Rome's third king Tullus Hostilius. In the 6th century BC Rome's sixth king Servius Tullius warred against Veii (after the expiry of an earlier truce) and the ...
The Roman expansion in Italy covers a series of conflicts in which Rome grew from being a small Italian city-state to be the ruler of the Italian region.Roman tradition attributes to the Roman kings the first war against the Sabines and the first conquests around the Alban Hills and down to the coast of Latium.