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The unification of Italy (Italian: Unità d'Italia, Italian: [uniˈta ddiˈtaːlja]), also known as the Risorgimento (/ r ɪ ˌ s ɔːr dʒ ɪ ˈ m ɛ n t oʊ /, Italian: [risordʒiˈmento]; lit. ' Resurgence ' ), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in 1861 in the consolidation of various states of the Italian ...
Piedmont was a springboard for Italian unification in 1859–1861, following earlier unsuccessful wars against the Austrian Empire in 1820–1821, [7] and 1848–1849. This process is sometimes referred to as Piedmontisation. [8] The efforts were later countered by the efforts of rural farmers.
Trentino (green area) was part of the "Alto Adige Department" under Napoleon. Napoleon created in 1810 the Department of Alto Adige that included most of actual Trentino and the area around Bolzano in Alto Adige. It was part of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy for some years. After the end of the Napoleonic era (1815), the Bishopric of Trent was ...
v. t. e. The history of the Italian Republic concerns the events relating to the history of Italy that have occurred since 1946, when Italy became a republic after the 1946 Italian institutional referendum. The Italian republican history is generally divided into two phases, the First and Second Republic. After the fall of the Fascist regime in ...
The etymology of the word "ballet" reflects its history. The word ballet comes from French and was borrowed into English around the 17th century. The French word in turn has its origins in Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo (dance). Ballet ultimately traces back to Italian ballare, meaning "to dance". [2]
The Italian Renaissance ( Italian: Rinascimento [rinaʃʃiˈmento]) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Western Europe and marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.
Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages ...
