Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia.... ". The term is most commonly used to refer to the people and languages of what is now Italy from the historic period before the Roman Empire
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean.... .
Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia.... ". The term is most commonly used to refer to the people and languages of what is now Italy from the historic period before the Roman Empire
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean.... .
The Italic subfamily is a member of the Indo-European languages language family's Centum branch. It includes the Romance languages derived from Latin , and a number of extinct languages of the Italian Peninsula, including Umbrian language, Oscan language, and the aforementioned Latin....
Ancient peoples of Italy are all those peoples that lived in Italy before the Ancient Rome. Not all of these various peoples are linguistically or ethnicity closely related....
Old Italic refers to several now extinct alphabet systems used on the Italian Peninsula in ancient times for various Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages....
In typography, italic type refers to cursive typefaces based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. The influence from calligraphy can be seen in their usual slight slanting to the right.... , used in typography mainly for emphasis.
Italian may refer to:* Anything of, from, or related to the country of Italy* Italians, an ethnic group. See also Demographics of Italy and Culture of Italy....
The city of Italica was founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in order to settle Roman soldiers wounded in the Battle of Ilipa, where the Carthaginian army was defeated during the Second Punic War....
