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Italians (Italian: italiani, pronounced [itaˈljaːni]) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region. [53] Italians share a common culture, history ...
From the late 19th century to the 1960s, Italy was a country of mass emigration. Between 1898 and 1914, the peak years of Italian diaspora, approximately 750,000 Italians emigrated annually. [194] The diaspora included more than 25 million Italians and is considered the greatest mass migration of recent times. [195]
Italians residing abroad as of 31 December 2010 were 4,115,235 (47.8% are women). [78] The Italian emigrant community continues to increase both for new departures, and for internal growth (enlargement of families or people who acquire citizenship by descent). Italian emigration is concentrated mainly between Europe (55.8%) and America (38.8%).
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. This list of ancient peoples living in Italy summarises the many different Italian populations that existed in antiquity.
The ancestors of Italians are mostly Indo-European speakers (Italic peoples such as Latins, Umbrians, Samnites, Oscans, Sicels and Adriatic Veneti, as well as Celts, Iapygians and Greeks) and pre-Indo-European speakers (Etruscans, Ligures, Rhaetians and Camunni in mainland Italy, Sicani and Elymians in Sicily and the Nuragic people in Sardinia).
In her hands were 19th century cartoons depicting Italians as mustachioed rats swimming onto American shores. Before us was a photo of two Italian men who had been lynched, hanging from a tree.
On Napoleon's return to France (the Hundred Days), he regained Murat's support, but Murat proved unable to convince the Italians to fight for Napoleon with his Proclamation of Rimini and was beaten and killed. The Italian kingdoms thus fell, and Italy's Restoration period began, with many pre-Napoleonic sovereigns returned to their thrones.
“We Italians, we talk with our hands, we hug, we kiss, we love our fashion and our fine dining, so there was a lot of emotion and a lot of excitement.