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Piazza del Popolo is a large urban square in Rome.The name in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian) after which the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in the northeast corner of the piazza, takes its name.
In Italian phonemic distinction between long and short vowels is rare and limited to a few words and one morphological class, namely the pair composed by the first and third person of the historic past in verbs of the third conjugation—compare sentii (/senˈtiː/, "I felt/heard'), and sentì (/senˈti/, "he felt/heard").
There are two quite different styles of pizza which may be referred to as Roman pizza in Italy: Pizza al taglio (pizza by the slice). [3] [4] This typically comes in rectangular slices, and usually has a thicker base, similar to focaccia. It is eaten as a casual, takeaway dish. Whole round pizzas (pizza tonda) with a thin base. [5]
Speakers of non-rhotic accents, as in much of Australia, England, New Zealand, and Wales, will pronounce the second syllable [fəd], those with the father–bother merger, as in much of the US and Canada, will pronounce the first syllable [ˈɑːks], and those with the cot–caught merger but without the father–bother merger, as in Scotland ...
The term rostrum, referring to a podium for a speaker is directly derived from the use of the term "Rostra". One stands in front of a Rostrum and one stands upon the Rostra. While, eventually, there were many rostra within the city of Rome and its republic and empire, then, as now, "Rostra" alone refers to a specific structure.
Before Rome became the capital city of Italy, Romanesco was spoken only inside the walls of the city, while the little towns surrounding Rome had their own dialects. . Nowadays, these dialects have been replaced with a variant of Romanesco, which therefore is now spoken in an area larger than the orig
Roma pizza may refer to: Roman pizza; Italian tomato pie, specifically that sold by Roma Pizza in Hamilton, Ontario; See also. Roman's Pizza
The pizza dolce di Beridde (lit. ' sweet pizza of Beridde '), also known as the pizza ebraica (lit. ' Hebrew pizza ') [1] or diamanti romani (lit. ' Roman diamonds '), [2] is an unleavened sweet bread associated with the city of Rome, in the Lazio region of Italy.