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- In antiquity, Italy was the homeland of the Romans and the metropole of the Roman Empire. Rome was founded as a Kingdom in 753 BC and became a Republic in 509 BC, when the monarchy was overthrown in favor of a government of the Senate and the People.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Italy
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The history of Italy covers the ancient period, the Middle Ages and the modern era. Since classical antiquity, ancient Etruscans, various Italic peoples (such as the Latins, Samnites and Umbrians), Celts, Greek Colonists and other ancient peoples have inhabited the Italian Peninsula. In antiquity,
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See moreThe arrival of the first hominins was 850,000 years ago at Monte Poggiolo. The presence of the Homo neanderthalensis has been demonstrated in archaeological findings near Rome and Verona dating to c. 50,000 years ago (late
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See moreOdoacer's rule came to an end when the Ostrogoths, under the leadership of Theodoric, conquered Italy. Decades later, the armies of Eastern
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See moreThe history of Italy following the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis was characterized by foreign domination and economic decline. The North was under indirect rule of the Austrian Habsburgs in their positions as Holy Roman Emperors, and the south was under direct rule of the
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See moreItaly gradually enters the proto-historical period in the 8th century BC, with the introduction of the Phoenician script and its adaptation in various
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Little is certain about the history of the Roman Kingdom, as nearly no written records from that time survive, and the histories about it that were...
See moreItaly was the main center of the Renaissance, whose flourishing of the arts, architecture, literature, science, historiography, and political theory influenced all of Europe.
By the late Middle Ages, central and southern Italy, once the...
See moreThe Risorgimento was the political and social process that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into the single nation of Italy.
It is difficult to pin down...
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