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The etymology of the name of Italy has been the subject of reconstructions by linguists and historians.Considerations extraneous to the specifically linguistic reconstruction of the name have formed a rich corpus of solutions that are either associated with legend (the existence of a king named Italus) or in any case strongly problematic (such as the connection of the name with the grape vine ...
This shift did not seem to happen in most other cultural hemispheres on Earth, such as Romance-speaking (including France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Latin America, and the postcolonial Romance-speaking countries of Africa), Germanic (but excluding English) speaking (including Germany, Austria ...
Only found within the deuterocanonical First Book of Maccabees which is found in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox bibles. Girgashites [ 1 ] Gog (various times, mainly in the Prophets ) [ 19 ]
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Originally known as the Poor of Lyon in the late twelfth century, [1] [2] [3] the movement spread to the Cottian Alps in what is today France and Italy. The founding of the Waldensians is attributed to Peter Waldo , a wealthy merchant who gave away his property around 1173, [ 4 ] [ 2 ] preaching apostolic poverty as the way to perfection .
After Mazzini's release in 1831, he went to Marseille, where he organized a new political society called La Giovine Italia (Young Italy) seeking the unification of Italy. Garibaldi participated in an uprising in Piedmont in 1834, was sentenced to death, and escaped to South America. He returned to Italy in 1848.
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. Latin is confined to Latium, a small region on the coast of west central Italy, hemmed in by other Italic peoples on the east and south and the powerful Etruscan civilization on the north. Latin is a member of the broad family of Italic languages.
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. The Latins ( Latin : Latinus (m.), Latina (f.), Latini (m. pl.)), sometimes known as the Latials [ 1 ] or Latians , were an Italic tribe that included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome (see Roman people ).