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May 5, 2024 · Genoa, Italy. Located about 75 miles (120 km) south of Milan on the Gulf of Genoa, the city occupies a narrow coastal plain and the western slopes of the Apennine Range. The city has a mild Mediterranean climate. Shipbuilding is the major industry; other industries produce petroleum, textiles, iron and steel, locomotives, paper, sugar, cement ...
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May 16, 2024 · The St George’s Cross, which consists of a red cross on a white field, was not only the flag of Genoa but also the flag of England and the City of London in the 12th century. This flag was used by English ships entering the Mediterranean as a way to invoke the privileges and protection granted by the Genoese fleet.
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1 day ago · Flag of the Cispadane Republic, which was the first Italian tricolour adopted by a sovereign Italian state (1797) During the Napoleonic era , in 1797, the first official adoption of the Italian tricolour as a national flag by a sovereign Italian state, the Cispadane Republic , a sister republic of Revolutionary France , took place.
1 day ago · The national flag of Italy (Italian: bandiera d'Italia, pronounced [banˈdjɛːra diˈtaːlja]), often referred to in Italian as il Tricolore (pronounced [il trikoˈloːre]; English: "the Tricolour"), is a tricolour featuring three equally sized vertical panels of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side, as defined by article 12 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic.
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- A vertical tricolour of green, white and red
- 18 June 1946 (founding of the Italian Republic)
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2 days ago · Italy, country of south-central Europe, occupying a peninsula that juts deep into the Mediterranean Sea. Italy comprises some of the most varied and scenic landscapes on Earth and is often described as a country shaped like a boot. At its broad top stand the Alps, which are among the world’s most rugged mountains.
Apr 26, 2024 · This site is a collaboration of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Apr 30, 2024 · The flag of Genoa, known as the St. George’s Cross, is often associated with the flag of England due to historical connections between the two regions. It is believed that the English adopted the red cross on a white background as their emblem during the Crusades, where they would have encountered the symbol used by the Republic of Genoa.
