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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.
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 ...
Historians believe the dramatic reduction in population (and, thus, in economic activity) contributed to Italy's downfall as a major commercial and political centre. [110] By one estimate, while in 1500 the GDP of Italy was 106% of the French GDP, by 1700 it was only 75% of it. [111]
Italy, [a] officially the Italian Republic, [b] is a country in Southern [12] and Western Europe. [13] [c] It consists of a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. [15]
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).
The location of Italy. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Italy: . Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe, located primarily upon the Italian Peninsula.