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Italy has the largest collection of surnames (cognomi) of any country in the world, with over 350,000. [6] [7] Men—except slaves—in ancient Rome always had hereditary surnames, i.e., nomen (clan name) and cognomen (side-clan name). However, the multi-name tradition was lost by the Middle Ages.
Italiano: Carta d'Italia con confini di comuni (grigio chiaro), province (in grigio scuro) e regioni (in nero). I dati cartografici per i confini amministrativi italiani sono stati pubblicati dall'ISTAT.
This is a list of Italian organized crime groups around the world. This list does not include all groups, clans or families identified as Cosa Nostra (Mafia crime families).
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Sacra Corona Unita (pronounced [ˈsaːkra koˈroːna uˈniːta]; Italian for 'United Sacred Crown'; acronym: SCU), also known as the Fourth Mafia, [3] [4] [5] is a Mafia-type criminal organization from the Apulia region in Southern Italy, and it is especially active in the areas of Brindisi, Lecce, and Taranto.
The Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (English: Biographical Dictionary of the Italians) is a biographical dictionary published in 100 volumes by the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, started in 1960 and completed in 2020. It includes about 40,000 biographies of distinguished Italians. [1]
In this context, in 1847, the first public performance of the song Il Canto degli Italiani, the Italian national anthem since 1946, took place. [120] [121] Il Canto degli Italiani, written by Goffredo Mameli set to music by Michele Novaro, is also known as the Inno di Mameli, after the author of the lyrics, or Fratelli d'Italia, from its ...
A grocery store owned by an Italian family in Little Italy, 1910s. In 1893 there were about 1,400 ethnic Italians in Montreal. [3] During this time, Italian employment agencies that worked with Canadian steamship and railway companies attracted many Italian labourers to Montreal. [4]