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Latin place names are not always exclusive to one place – for example, there were several Roman cities whose names began with Colonia and then a more descriptive term. During the Middle Ages, these were often shortened to just Colonia. One of these, Colonia Agrippinensis, retains the name today in the form of Cologne.
Map of Italy and some of its major cities. The following is a list of Italian municipalities with a population over 50,000.The table below contains the cities populations as of 31 December 2021, [1] as estimated by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, [2] and the cities census population from the 2011 Italian Census. [3]
Alberto Sordi (1920–2003), was an actor who depicted Italy's virtues and vices in more than 160 movies and contributed to making Italian comedy famous worldwide. Carlo Lizzani (April 1922 – 2013), was a director and writer, known for The Hunchback of Rome, Bandits in Milan, and Celluloide.
This is an alphabetical list of the 7,918 Italian municipalities . [1] These represent the fundamental municipal units of the local government system of the country. Contents:
The following is a list of settlements in Italy whose name was changed between 1861 and today, sorted by region.This list contains only settlements within the present-day borders of Italy, but omits the German place names in South Tyrol (see Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige and Italianization of South Tyrol).
A bilingual street sign in Italian and Friulian Bilingual road sign (Italian and Friulian) near San Vito al Torre. This is a list in both Italian and Friulian language of place names in the historical area of Friuli, Italy, with the official spelling standard published by ARLeF - Regional Agency for the Friulian Language in 2009.
Giorgione (c. 1477 – 1510) is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, one of the seminal artists of the High Renaissance in Venice. Carlo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793), Along with Luigi Pirandello, Goldoni is probably the most famous name in Italian theatre, in his country and abroad.
Firenze: la culla del Rinascimento (the cradle of the Renaissance) / l'Atene d'Italia (the Italian Athens) / la gentile (the kind) Genova: la dominante (the dominant), la superba (the superb). Giugliano in Campania: la città della mela annurca (the city of annurca apples) / La città della fiaba (the city of fairtale)