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Italy has 1,371 endemic plant species and subspecies, [143] which include Sicilian fir, Barbaricina columbine, Sea marigold, Lavender cotton, and Ucriana violet. Italy is a signatory to the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats and the Habitats Directive. Italy has many botanical and historic gardens. [144]
The Italian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and Mediterranean Sea. The primary belligerents were the Valois kings of France , on one side, and their opponents in the Holy Roman Empire and Spain on the other.
Rome's international airport, Fiumicino, is the largest in Italy, and the city hosts the head offices of the vast majority of the major Italian companies, as well as the headquarters of three of the world's 100 largest companies: Enel, Eni, and Telecom Italia.
Relations between Italy and Romania have traditionally been close due to a large Latin kinship, thanks to their shared similar languages. During World War I, both countries fought the Austro-Hungarian Empire , and during World War II, contributed hundreds of thousands of troops to the Eastern Front where many died fighting the Soviets.
Provinces of Italy (grey borders), within Regions (solid borders) The provinces of Italy (Italian: province [proˈvintʃe]; sing. provincia [proˈvintʃa] ⓘ) are the second-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, on an intermediate level between a municipality and a region (regione). Since 2015, provinces have been classified ...
Fano resonance: discovered by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana, [417] and named after Italian-American Ugo Fano, who produced a theoretical explanation of the phenomenon. [ 418 ] [ 419 ] U. Fano is also known for Feshbach–Fano partitioning , Fano factor , Fano noise , Lu–Fano plot , [ 420 ] Fano effect , Fano–Lichten mechanism , [ 421 ...
From 1988 to 1995 he was employed at the Italian Embassies in Pakistan and in Jordan. He returned to Rome and served in the Middle East and Mediterranean Office of the General Directorate for Political Affairs of the Farnesina. From 1999 to 2007 he was sent to Lebanon, at the Embassy of Italy in Beirut, and he was Consul General in Los Angeles.
Italy took the initiative in entering the war in spring 1915, despite strong popular and elite sentiment in favor of neutrality. Italy was a large, poor country whose political system was chaotic, its finances were heavily strained, and its army was very poorly prepared. [162] The Triple Alliance meant little either to Italians or Austrians.