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| | Encyclopedia: Flag of Italy |
 | | Between the 1848 and 1861, a sequence of events led to the independence and unification of Italy (apart Venetian region, Rome, and Trento and Trieste, which were united to Italy in 1866, 1870 and 1918 respectively); this period is known as Risorgimento. | | | Throught all this period, the tricolore was the symbol which united all the efforts of the Italian people towards freedom and independence. | | | In the same year, Venetian people revolted against Austrian government, declaring the birth of the Venice Republic. |
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| | Italy |
| | Southern Italy and Sicily had not been united since the Lombard invasion of 568, and then Sicily was detached from Romania by the Aghlabids between 827 and 878. | | | Italy returned to a German alliance in World War II, and ended up losing the Slavic speaking part of Istria to Yugoslavia. | | | When Charles VIII of France invaded Italy in 1494, he was only interested in his own claim to Naples; but when Louis XII of Orlèans came to the throne, his claim was now to Milan as well as Naples. |
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| | Kingdom of Italy |
| | In 1861 the various Italian states were unified into one kingdom under the leadership of Piedmont. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Italy |
| | Under the Romans and in the Middle Ages, under the powerful republics of Amalfi and of Pisa, of Genoa and of Venice, Italy ruled the Mediterranean Sea, which, however, after the discovery of America, ceased to be the centre of European maritime activity. | | | That which is foreign is soon absorbed; and the Italian nation has the further advantage that, although it has a population of nearly 36,000,000 inhabitants, only 2,000,000 of them are subject to foreign governments. | | | The group of the Cilento which projects into the sea at Capes Licosa and Palinuro may be considered as the Lucan Sub-Apennines. |
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| | The Ostrogoths |
| | Their presence greatly worried the East Romans and when it became clear that he wanted to carve out a kingdom in the west, they did not try to discourage him, and he was able to claim that his subsequent invasion of Italy had Imperial sanction. | | | Despite claims of Imperial patronage, Theodoric was not recognised as King of Italy by the Emperor Anastasius until 497. | | | The struggle between the two great men lasted between 489 and 493, and finally ended when Theodoric murdered his rival in cold blood at a banquet. |
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| | Welcome to Italy1 History Page La Storia Italiana in Inglese |
| | Labor unrest, frequent government scandals, and the violence of extremist groups (especially the left-wing Red Brigades terrorists, who kidnapped and murdered former premier Aldo MORO in 1978), all contributed to a volatile political situation. | | | The frequent wars between city-states brought to Italy the mercenary leaders known as the CONDOTTIERI and ultimately resulted in foreign intervention. | | | Later that year Mussolini and Adolf HITLER, the National Socialist dictator of Germany, established the Rome-Berlin AXIS; in 1939, Italy took Albania, and the two dictators then concluded a military alliance known as the Pact of Steel. |
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| | Career Plus: Working and Living in Italy |
| | The only state which maintained its full independence from foreign rule was the Duchy of Savoy, later known as the Kingdom of Sardinia, which began the process of independence and unity of Italy in the middle of the last century. | | | However, whilst countries such as England, France and Spain achieved political unity during this period, Italy remained divided into numerous prinicipalities and city states often in dispute amongst themselves and therefore incapable of resisting foreign invasions. | | | Thanks also to the diplomatice ability of the brilliant Prime Minister of Savoy, Count Camillo Cavour, and the freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian unity was achieved in 1861 and the Kingdom of Italy proclaimed. |
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| | boys clothing: European royalty--Italy |
| | But the seeds of Italian national sentiment and the ideals of liberty had been sown in Italy as a result of the French invasion which brought with it the ideals of the French Revolution. | | | Following the speech from the throne at the beginning ofthe year by Vittorio Emanuele II on the support of Piedmont for Italians with nationalisticaspirations, Austria, having failed in her request for the disarmament of Piedmont, declared waron the Kingdom of Sardinia. | | | Italy entered World War II having previously formed an alliance with Germany. |
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| | ITALY - LoveToKnow Article on ITALY |
| | The number of foreigners in Italy in 1901 was 61,606, of whom 37,762 were domiciled within the kingdom. | | | Emigration has, however, recently assumed such proportions as to lead to scarcity of labor and rise of wages in Italy itself. | | | The works at Vinovo, which had fame in the f 8th century,, came to an untimely end in 1820; those of Castelli (in,Ares the Abruzzi), which have been revived, were supplanted f~t by Charles III.s establishment at Capodimonte, I7~ which after producing articles of surprising execution was closed before the end of the century. |
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| | Heraldry in Pre-Unification Italy |
| | In fact, later annexations in Italy (Tuscany, Papal States) were made by the French Empire without increasing the kingdom of Italy, and no attempt was made to unify the Italian peninsula. | | | From 1806 to 1808, the kingdom of Naples was in the hands of Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I, and, when he was promoted king of Spain, he was replaced by Joachim Murat (1808-15). | | | In the meantime, Carlo III had in 1385 asserted his claim to the kingdom of Hungary after the death of Louis I. From that point on, the arms of the kingdom of Naples were tierced per pale Hungary (barry of eight argent and gules), Anjou and Jerusalem. |
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| | Kingdom and Italy Plan to Promote Joint Ventures |
| | The Italian Trade commissioner, Dr. Amedo Scarpa, who returned from the Rebuild Iraq Exhibition which concluded in Kuwait recently, said that the new holding company would be formally established with an initial capital of $300 million and 50 percent coming from each of the two parties in February. | | | Speaking about the Rebuild Iraq Exhibition, Dr. Scarpa said some Italian companies had already got definite orders in Iraq including the construction of pre-fabricated houses and the establishment of a dairy farm. | | | RIYADH, 31 January 2004 — The Kingdom and Italy plan to set up a holding company to promote joint venture projects in Iraq and other Gulf countries. |
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http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6§ion=0&article=38886&d=31&m=1&y=2004
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| | History of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini that took over in 1922 led to the alliance with Germany and other Axis Powers and ultimately Italy's defeat in World War II. | | | Modern Italy became a nation-state belatedly — on March 17, 1861, when most of the states of the peninsula were united under king Victor Emmanuel II of the Savoy dynasty, which ruled over Piedmont. | | | The name Italy (Italia) is an ancient name for the country and people of Southern Italy. |
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| | Italy Flags geographic.org Italian Flag |
| | This flag of Italy is intended for representational purposes and no claim to technical accuracy is made. | | | Click on the link above to read the terms for use of this Italian flag on your web page. |
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| | Italy |
| | The Tricolore, charged with the Savoia shield in the center, became in 1848 the national flag of the Kingdom of Sardinia and, in 1861 of the Kingdom of Italy. | | | Italy is an ancient civilization with democratic values on which both our institutions and those of a Europe which managed to overcome the divisions of their different peoples are based. | | | Now an advocate of devolution, he is on the cards to be made a deputy leader in incoming prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's government and at least two other Northern League members could also be made ministers. |
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| | Kingdom Of Italy Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | Look for kingdom of italy - Find kingdom of italy at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer! | | | The various Barbarian rulers of Italy after the end of the Western Empire in 476 (including Odoacer, the Ostrogoths and the Lombards) sometimes called their state the Kingdom of Italy. | | | In 1861, the King of Sardinia was proclaimed King of a new united Kingdom of Italy, Sardinia having recently annexed Lombardy, Tuscany, Modena, Parma, the Two Sicilies, and most of the Papal States. |
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| | Savoy, house of: The Kingdom of Italy |
| | , who succeeded (1878) Victor Emmanuel II as king of Italy, was assassinated in 1900. | | | , the movement that led to the unification of Italy under his son, | | | Male members of the family were barred from entering Italy from 1948 to 2002. |
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| | Kingdom of Italy - Ministerial Flags (1923-1945) |
| | Researching information on the flags of Fascist Italy I found this realistic image of a fasces (with a weird double axe attached): < | | | This is because he new they were voting him out of power. | | | Benito Mussolini organized the economy of Fascist Italy according to what was known as a corporative model. |
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| | 4.2 The Unification Of Italy |
| | It created a feeling of national sentiments and put forth the idea of independence. | | | Because of his efforts, the young men in Italy felt urged to uproot foreign rule. | | | Napoleon I succeeded in his attempt and rounded off Italy. |
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| | Italy |
| | In 1943, even before the fall of the Mussolini regime, delegates of non Fascist parties assembled in Rome and founded the Anti-Fascist United Freedom Front, renamed Committee of National Liberation/Comitato di Liberazione Nationale (CLN) after the German occupation of Italy. | | | In 1944 the Committee of National Liberation of Upper Italy staged a revolt that resulted in the establishment of a number of "partisan republics." Within the same year, however, they were reconquered by the occupying Germans. | | | Similar committees were also set up in most other cities. |
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| | European Union Internet Usage and Population Stats |
| | UK economy, population and society at national and local level. | | | Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. | | | A very complete directory for the United Kingdom. |
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| | Virginia Institute for Public Policy - Board of Scholars |
| | Professor Sanders, who teaches courses in ancient history, has lectured in the United Kingdom, italy, Egypt, mainland Greece, Crete, and Syria and on the island of Rhodes. | | | Garrett Ward Sheldon is professor of political science at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. | | | in 1993 his book Drug Policy and the Decline of American Cities won first place in the Sir Anthony Fisher international Memorial Awards given by the Atlas Economic Research Foundations of the United States and the United Kingdom for its contribution to understanding the role a free economy plays in society. |
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| | Countries of the World: Italy: Chapter 1C. The Kingdom of Italy@ HighBeam Research |
| | The new kingdom was established as a centralized unitary state with a powerful monarchy and a parliamentary government. | | | The constitution made no explicit mention of power of their parliament or the prime minister, although under Cavour the prime minister became the most important political post. |
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| | Kingdom Of Italy (Napoleonic) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | The Kingdom consisted of Lombardy, Venetia, Duchy of Modena, part of Papal States (Ancona, the remaining part with Rome had been annexed to French Empire), part of Kingdom of Sardinia, South Tyrol. | | | Northen Italy in 1810, with the Kingdom of Italy, the French Empire (Piedmont, Parma and Tuscany), the Kingdom of Naples and Kingdom of Sardinia | | | The Kingdom of Italy was born on 17 March 1805. |
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| | Etrurian Kingdom (1801-1807) (Italy) |
| | This is Kingdom of Etruria State flag 1/1/1804 - /12/1807. | | | The kingdom was short-lived, as Napoleon gave it to his sister in 1808. | | | Roberto Breschi, in his presantation: "Flags in Italy under Napoleon's pressure" at ICV 20 in Stockholm, reported about the Etrurian Kingdom: The 5-stripes flag was the state and war flag while the civil flag had only three stripes (b-w-b). |
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| | WHKMLA : History of the Kingdom of Italy, 1805-1815 |
| | In 1805, the Italian Republic was enlaged by VENETIA (with DALMATIA, the IONIAN ISLANDS and ISTRIA) and transformed into the KINGDOM OF ITALY, the king of which was Napoleon Bonaparte himself (thus France and Italy being united in DYNASTIC UNION). | | | Napoleon Museum, focusses on Italy, has map of kingdom of Italy in 1810, has subfiles on history of Italian army units | | | The region of Milano-Mantua-Bologna had been fought over constantly in the years 1795-1800 and, while under the protection of French forces alone, has been transformed into the LOMBARDIAN REPUBLIC, renamed the, CISPADAN, CISALPINE respectively ITALIAN REPUBLIC. |
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| | The Ostrogothic kingdom (from Italy) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The decades of the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy (489–552) can be seen as the first true period of Germanic rule in the peninsula, for an entire tribe of 100,000 to 200,000 people came with Theoderic. | | | The states of Italy in the quattrocento (15th century) | | | Still, the Ostrogothic kingdom continued to operate inside a largely Roman political system. |
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| | The Kingdom of Italy |
| | There were five line infantry regiments and three light infantry regiments in existance in 1805 and by the end of that year a sixth line infantry regiment had been raised and in 1808 a seventh line infantry regiment was added. | | | In the year 1805 the former Republic of Italy was declared a kingdom with Napoleon as the self crowned King. |
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| | flag of Kingdom of Italy (1805-1814) (Italy) flags |
| | On the other hand, the war ensign was charged with the royal arms, as were most of the military flags on the reverse, which, in general, supported mottos and personal symbols on the obverse | | | Roberto Breschi, in his presantation: "Flags in Italy under Napoleon's pressure" at ICV 20 in Stockholm, reported about the Kingdom of Italy): It replaced the | | | The flag of the state was NOT change during the short (1805 - 1814) kingdom of Italy. |
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| | ipedia.com: Belgium Article |
| | Clovis was the most famous of these kings: he converted to Christianity and ruled from northern France, but his empire included today's Belgium. | | | Religion was one of the differences between the Roman Catholic south and the Protestant north of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which eventually broke up in 1830 when the south seceded to form Belgium. | | | One of these people, the Franks, finally installed a new kingdom under the rulers of the Merovingian Dynasty. |
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| | Venice hotels. Hotels in Venice, Italy. Venice map and guide. Easy hotel bookings |
| | After the city became part of the unified Kingdom of Italy in 1866, its unusual looks helped it reinvent itself to become one of the world's most favourite tourist destinations. | | | The city added new industrial quarters of Mestre and Marghera, but the increased population meant more problems to the fragile historic city center, where only 63,000 people live now, half of what used to live there 50 years ago. | | | The city grew so strong then that its fall from grace took nearly 200 years, until Turks effectively put an end to Venice's power. |
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| | Kingdom, Italy to Boost Agricultural Cooperation |
| | Giovanni said his country was very keen to import fresh dates from the Kingdom besides petroleum products. | | | RIYADH, 29 November 2004 — The Kingdom and Italy signed an agreement aimed at further boosting relations in the fields of agriculture and agro-industries. | | | He told the businessmen that there are ample opportunities in Italy for Saudi products, but they need proper marketing strategies in that part of the world. |
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| | Italy History Home Page |
| | Since earliest times Italy has been impacted by cultural and political divisions resulting from the country's contrasting geography and by circumstances that made Italy the theatre of many important struggles over power in Europe. | | | Source: Bibliography: Burckhardt, Jakob, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860; repr. | | | 1967); Larner, John, Italy in the Age of Dante and Petrarch (1980); Mack Smith, Denis, Italy: A Modern History, rev. ed. |
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| | Government [Italy] |
| | Prime Minister (referred to in Italy as the President of the Council of Ministers) Lamberto DINI (since 1 February 1995) | | | President Oscar Luigi SCALFARO (since 28 May 1992) |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Council of Frankfort |
| | 1), and attended by the bishops of the Frankish kingdom, Italy, and the province of Aquitania, and even by ecclesiastics from England. | | | Convened in the summer of 794, by the grace of God, authority of the pope, and command of Charlemagne (can. |
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| | Kingdom of Italy - Royal Flags |
| | It is almost identical to those shown in Flaggenbuch 1939, except that here the shade of blue appears to be darker and the swallowtail of the Prince's flag has a right angle cut-out. | | | Royal Standard of the king of Italy from circa 1905 onward | | | Royal Standard of the Crownprince of Italy from circa 1905 onward. |
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