Italians
Italians (Italian: [italiani] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) Italian pronunciation: [itaˈljaːni]) are a Romance[3][4][5] ethnic group native to the Italian peninsula. Italians have a common culture, history, ancestry and language.[6][7]
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| Regions with significant populations | |
 Italy 55,551,000[1] | |
| Languages | |
| Italian and other languages of Italy | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Catholic Church)[2] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Greeks, Maltese people and other Romance peoples |
Italians Media
Odoacer, the first King of Italy
Marco Polo, explorer of the 13th century, recorded his 24 years-long travels in the Book of the Marvels of the World, introducing Europeans to Central Asia and China.
Leonardo da Vinci, a polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect
The Italian explorer Christopher Columbus leads an expedition to the New World, 1492. His voyages are celebrated as the discovery of the Americas from a European perspective, and they opened a new era in the history of humankind and sustained contact between the two worlds.
Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer from whose name the term "America" is derived
Alcide De Gasperi, first republican Prime Minister of Italy and one of the Founding Fathers of the European Union
A young Italian exile on the run carries, along with her personal effects, a flag of Italy, during the Istrian-Dalmatian exodus.
The Pantheon and the Fontana del Pantheon. Roman relics and Roman culture are important symbols in Italy.
Bologna University, established in AD 1088, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation.
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References
- ↑ "Indicatori demografici Istat (Italian)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ↑ "L'Italia e le religioni nel 2016". Italofilia.Pl. 12 November 2016. Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ↑ Pop, Ioan-Aurel (1996). Romanians and Hungarians from the 9th to the 14th century. Romanian Cultural Foundation. ISBN 0880334401. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
We could say that contemporary Europe is made up of three large groups of peoples, divided on the criteria of their origin and linguistic affiliation. They are the following: the Romanic or neo-Latin peoples (Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, French, Romanians, etc.), the Germanic peoples (Germans proper, English, Dutch, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders, etc.), and the Slavic peoples (Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, etc.)
- ↑ Minahan, James (2000). One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 156. ISBN 0313309841. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
The Italians are a Latin people, a mixture of Germanic and Mediterranean peoples
- ↑ Minahan, James (2000). One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 776. ISBN 0313309841. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
Romance (Latin) nations... Italians
- ↑ Miti e simboli della rivoluzione nazionale Archived 10 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Treccani.it
- ↑ Giuliano Procacci (ed.) (2009) Storia degli Italiani (In Italian: History of the Italian People). Rome, Italy: Editori Laterza.