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The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian (ruled AD 117–138), showing the senatorial province of Sardinia and Corsica , two islands in the central Mediterranean Sea The Nuragic civilization flourished in Sardinia from 1800 to 500 BC.
English: Map of the region of Sicily, Italy (Italian version) Date: 31 July 2010: Source: Own work: Author: Vonvikken: Other versions . W3C-validity not checked.
To the south of Sicily lies the Strait of Sicily, while to the west of Sardinia lies the Sea of Sardinia. [28] Italy has a coastline of approximately 7,900 km (4,900 mi), [29] [30] with a great variety of shapes that depends both on the nature of the mainland and on the action of the sea.
English: Map of the region of Sicily, Italy (English version) Date: 31 July 2010: Source: Own work: Author: Vonvikken: Other versions . W3C-validity not checked.
Detailed map of Corsica and environs. Corsica was formed about 250 million years ago with the uplift of a granite backbone on the western side. About 50 million years ago sedimentary rock was pressed against this granite, forming the schists of the eastern side. It is the most mountainous island in the Mediterranean, a "mountain in the sea".
Regions of Augustan Italy, in addition to the Province of Sardinia and Corsica, as well as Sicily's. 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 ...
The two biggest islands of the Mediterranean: Sicily (right) and Sardinia (top left), which are both part of Italy. The following is a list of islands in the Mediterranean Sea . The basin is supposed to host more than 10,000 islands [ 1 ] , with 2,217 islands larger than 0.01 km 2 [ 2 ] .
This is a list of islands of Italy. There are nearly 450 islands in Italy, including islands in the Mediterranean Sea (including the marginal seas: Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, Libyan Sea, Ligurian Sea, Sea of Sardinia, Tyrrhenian Sea, and inland islands in lakes and rivers. The largest island is Sicily with an area of 25,711 km 2 (9,927 sq