History of Italy

	Revision 13 . . (edit) November 20, 2001 10:54 pm by Goochelaar [ordered main cities]
	Revision 12 . . (edit) November 20, 2001 12:09 am by Goochelaar [fixed some links and details (mostly about cities and football teams)]
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The capital is Rome (Roma), but the economic capital is Milan? (Milano) in the north.

The capital is Rome (Roma), but the economic capital is Milan? (Milano) in the north. Other important cities include (in decreasing order of population) Naples (Napoli), Turin? (Torino), Palermo?, Genoa? (Genova), Bologna?, Florence (Firenze), Venice? (Venezia).

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Italy has won the [Football WorldCup]? three (3) times: 1934, 1938 and 1982. Some of world's best Football teams come from Italy. The latter include Milan AC, Inter Milano FC, AS Roma, Lazio (also from Rome), Juventus (from Torino) and Fiorentina (from Florence).

Italy is well-known for its art, culture, and several monuments, among which the leaning tower of Pisa, as well as for its food (pizza, pasta, etc.)

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Italy is also well-known for its food (pizza, pasta, etc.) and the [leaning tower of Pisa]?. Pisa is a beautiful small town in Tuscany, and the tower wasn't built to be leaning, but began leaning soon after they started construction around the [thirteenth century]?. Italy became a nation-state belatedly - in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula and Sicily were united under King Victor EMMANUEL. The Fascist dictatorship of Benito MUSSOLINI that took over after World War I led to a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany and Italian defeat in World War II. Revival followed. Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC) and joined the growing political and economic unification of Western Europe, including the introduction of the euro in 1999. Persistent problems include illegal immigration, the ravages of organized crime, corruption, high unemployment, and the low incomes and technical standards of southern Italy compared with the more prosperous north.

Italy became a nation-state belatedly - in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula and Sicily were united under King Victor Emmanuel II (Vittorio Emanuele II), of the Savoy dinasty. Rome itself became part of the Kingdom of Italy only in 1870. The Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini that took over in 1922 led to a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany and Italian defeat in World War II. Revival followed. Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC) and joined the growing political and economic unification of Western Europe, including the introduction of the euro in 1999. Persistent problems include illegal immigration, the ravages of organized crime, corruption, high unemployment, and the low incomes and technical standards of southern Italy compared with the more prosperous north.

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Italy has won the Football World Cup three times: 1934, 1938 and 1982. Some of world's best football teams come from Italy. The latter include A.C. Milan, Inter Milano FC, A.S. Roma, S.S. Lazio (also from Rome), Juventus (from Turin?), and Fiorentina? (from Florence).