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The geography of Italy includes the description of all the physical geographical elements of Italy. Italy, whose territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region , [ 1 ] is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula crossed by the Apennines , the southern side of Alps , the large plain of ...
Maps of the history of Italy (2 C, 1 F) P. ... Pages in category "Historical geography of Italy" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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Italy has extensive lignite coal from the Eocene, concentrated in Sardinia. However, extraction is limited by thin seams and complicated tectonics. Graphite anthracite is known in Carboniferous Val d'Aosta rocks and the Permian rocks of Sardinia. Both Calabria and central Italy have peat deposits from the Paleogene.
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 idea of Italy as a geographic region is very old. It was described with the geographical notion of peninsula as early as the 1st century BC in the oldest treatise called Geographica (in ancient Greek: Γεωγραφικά - Gheographikà), [11] a work in 17 volumes by the Greek geographer Strabo (65/64 – 25/21 BC).
Italy portal; This category groups articles on the geographical, historical and cultural regions of Italy, as opposed to the twenty contemporary administrative regions which are placed in Category:Regions of Italy. See also Category:Italian states. Articles on such former states which retain a contemporary resonance are likely to appear both in ...
Topographic map of Italy. Italy, whose territory largely coincides with the eponymous geographical region, [15] is located in Southern Europe (and is also considered part of Western Europe [13]) between latitudes 35° and 47° N, and longitudes 6° and 19° E.