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Italian orthography (the conventions used in writing Italian) uses 21 letters of the 26-letter Latin alphabet to write the Italian language. This article focuses on the writing of Standard Italian, based historically on the Florentine dialect, [1] and not the other Italian dialects . Written Italian is very regular and almost completely ...
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 ...
Matera ( Italian pronunciation: [maˈtɛːra], locally [maˈteːra] ⓘ; Materano: Matàrë [maˈtæːrə]) is a city and the capital of the Province of Matera in the region of Basilicata, in Southern Italy. With a history of continuous occupation dating back to the Palaeolithic (10th millennium BC), it is renowned for its rock-cut urban core ...
The lira (/ ˈ l ɪər ə / LEER-ə, Italian:; pl.: lire, / ˈ l ɪər eɪ / LEER-eh, Italian:) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. It was introduced by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1807 at par with the French franc , and was subsequently adopted by the different states that would eventually form the Kingdom of Italy in 1861.
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini ( UK: / ˌmʊsəˈliːni, ˌmʌs -/, US: / ˌmuːs -/, Italian: [beˈniːto aˈmilkare anˈdrɛːa mussoˈliːni]; 29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian dictator who founded and led the National Fascist Party (PNF).
Italian unification ( Italian: Unità d'Italia ), also known as the Risorgimento (meaning "the Resurgence"), refers to the Italian movement that united the Italian states in the 19th century. The movement began in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna. It ended in 1871, when Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy by the efforts of Count of ...
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 pales of green, white and red, national colours of Italy, with the green at the hoist side, as defined by article 12 of the Constitution of ...
