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The economy of Italy is a highly developed social market economy. [26] It is the third-largest national economy in the European Union, the second-largest manufacturing industry in Europe (7th-largest in the world), [27] the 9th-largest economy in the world by nominal GDP, and the 12th-largest by GDP (PPP).
Italian (italiano, Italian: [itaˈljaːno] ⓘ, or lingua italiana, Italian: [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent Romance language from Latin, together with Sardinian.
There were therefore nine more provinces: Belluno, Mantua, Padua, Rovigo, Treviso, Venice, Verona, Vicenza and Udine, all previously part of the Austrian Empire. Eventually, in 1870, following the union of Rome and its province from the Papal States, the provinces rose in number to 69.
1980 (4th Session) Area. 1,431 ha (3,540 acres) Rome ( Italian and Latin: Roma, Italian: [ˈroːma] ⓘ) is the capital city of Italy. It is also the capital of the Lazio region, the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, and a special comune (municipality) named Comune di Roma Capitale.
A list of cities in Italy. Cities in bold text are capitals of provinces. Map of Italy. Cities with population more than 150,000 are shown. Rank City Region Province
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 in 1861 resulted in the consolidation of various states of the Italian ...
Venice [3] ( Italian: Venezia, Italian: [veˈnɛttsja] ⓘ) [note 1] is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 126 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 472 bridges. [4] The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an ...
