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The term "Mezzogiorno" today mostly refers to the regions that are associated with the people, lands or culture of the historical and cultural region that was once politically under the administration of the former Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily (officially denominated as one entity Regnum Siciliae citra Pharum and ultra Pharum, i.e. "Kingdom of ...
Sicily; Trinacria [1]: Use: Civil and state flag: Proportion: 13:20 (as shown above), 2:3 or 3:5: Adopted: 4 January 2000 (): Design: Divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner; the upper triangle is red and the lower triangle is yellow; in the center is the Sicilian triskelion featuring the winged head of Medusa with three ears of wheat protruding from it.
The flag is the coat of arms of Liguria superimposed on tricolour green, red and blue field. Each colour of the field has the following meaning: [18] the green represents the Ligurian Alps and the Ligurian Apennines; the red represents the blood shed for Italian unification; the blue represents the Ligurian Sea.
Padania (/ p ə ˈ d eɪ n i ə / pə-DAY-nee-ə, UK also /-ˈ d ɑː n-/- DAH-, [1] Italian: [paˈdaːnja]) is an alternative name and proposed independent state encompassing Northern Italy, derived from the name of the Po River (Latin Padus), whose basin includes much of the region, centered on the Po Valley (Pianura Padana), the major plain of Northern Italy.
This is a list of flags of states, territories, former, and other geographic entities (plus a few non-geographic flags) sorted by their combinations of dominant colors. Flags emblazoned with seals, coats of arms, and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields. The color of text is almost entirely ignored.
Central Italy encompasses four of the country's 20 regions: . Lazio; Marche (the Marches); Tuscany (Toscana); Umbria; The easternmost and southernmost parts of Lazio (Cittaducale, Amatrice, Sora, Cassino, Isola del Liri, Sperlonga, Fondi, Gaeta and Formia districts, as well as the islands of Ponza and Ventotene) are sometimes connected to southern Italy (the so-called Mezzogiorno) for cultural ...
South Italy is defined only for statistical and electoral purposes. It should not be confused with the Mezzogiorno, or southern Italy, which refers to the areas of the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (once including the southern half of the Italian peninsula and Sicily) with the usual addition of the Western Mediterranean island of Sardinia.
The Mezzogiorno (large definition in clear rose, narrow definition in dark rose) Map of Italian regions by GDP per capita in euros (2015). The term southern question indicates, in Italian historiography, the perception, which developed in the post-unification context, [1] of the situation of persistent backwardness in the socioeconomic development of the regions of southern Italy compared to ...