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a small, brown olive native to Arbeca, grown in Aragon and Catalonia, Spain, good for eating and for oil. Arbosana: Spain a Spanish variety commonly grown for oil production alongside Arbequina and others, including in the United States. Ascolano: Italy A cold-hardy table variety from the Le Marche region of Italy enjoyed as a table olive.
The olive, botanical name Olea europaea, meaning 'European olive', is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin, with wild subspecies found further afield in Africa and western Asia. When in shrub form, it is known as Olea europaea ' Montra ', dwarf olive, or little olive.
Olea (/ ˈ oʊ l i ə / OH-lee-ə [3]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae.It includes 12 species native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Middle East, southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and Australasia. [2]
Kalamata olives are a widely recognized and much-loved type of Greek olive that grow on the Kalamon tree and hail from the Peloponnese region in southern Greece. (Note: no olives grown outside ...
Olea oleaster, the wild-olive, has been considered by various botanists a valid species and a subspecies [1] of the cultivated olive tree, Olea europea, which is a tree of multiple origins [2] that was domesticated, it now appears, at various places during the fourth and third millennia BCE, in selections drawn from varying local populations. [3]
In Little Italy, Chicago, some Italian language signage is visible (e.g. Banca Italiana).. The first Italian Americans began to immigrate en masse around 1880. The first Italian immigrants, mainly from Sicily, Calabria and other parts of Southern Italy, were largely men, and many planned to return to Italy after making money in the US, so the speaker population of Italian was not always ...
Italian language in the United States. Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia. [1] Although over 17 million Americans are of Italian descent, only a little over one million people in the United States speak Italian at home. [64]
Bilingual education in the United States, often a different concept from language immersion or dual-language school programs, is an area of political controversy. In standard bilingual classes, the non-English language (typically Spanish or Chinese) is utilized over a period of time when students' English-language proficiency is lacking.