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• Languages of Italy
  [[Italy]] currently has one national language: [[Italian language| Standard Italian]]. Many of the regional varieties of Italian spoken aroun * [[French language|French]]
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• Northern Italian language
  ...according to linguist Geoffrey Hull (1982), who prefers the name "Padanian language". * as a [[language family|sub-family]] composed of several regional Romance languages (accordi
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• Ciao
  ...rd|adopted]] by Italian and eventually entered the vocabulary of [[English language|English]] and of many other languages around the world. The word is mostly ...classes. The word ''s-ciào'' is still used in Venetian and in [[Lombard language|Lombardian]] as an [[exclamation]] of [[resignation]], as in ''Oh, va be',
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• Milanese
  ...'''''meneghin''''', '''''meneghín''''') is a [[Lombard language|Lombard]] language [[variety (linguistics)|variety]] spoken in the city of [[Milan]] and, more ...bard]] variety and is intelligible to speakers of other [[Lombard language|Lombard]] varieties.
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• Northern Italy
  Northern Italy was inhabited by Celts and protoceltic tribes in the "Lombard Valley", while etrurian people settled in Tuscany, that, as the recent stud ...anguage of the conquered people as well of the conquerors they mixed their language with that of the magyars, the western germans ( the first case ) and the la
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• Lombardy
  '''Lombardy''' (in [[Italian language|Italian]] ''Lombardia'') is a region in northern [[Italy]] between the [[Al ...was a close relationship between the [[Franks|Frankish]], [[Bavaria]]n and Lombard nobility for many centuries.
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• Umberto Bossi
  ...[1980]], Bossi began focusing more on [[Lombardy]]. After two years, the ''Lombard autonomist league'' is born. It is at this time that Bossi meets his second The [[Lombard League|Lega Lombarda]] would later seek alliances with similar movements in
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• Lombardia
  ...mbardy''' ([[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Lombardia''; [[Lombard language|Lombard]]: ''Lumbardìa'') is a region in [[northern Italy]] between the [[Alps]] a ...€400 [[1000000000 (number)|billion]] and a per capita GDP of $44,216. The Lombard GDP is higher than those of [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Switzerland]] or [[Sweden]]
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• Lombards
  ...ege of three years, in [[572]], becoming the first capital city of the new Lombard kingdom of Italy. In the following years, the Lombards penetrated further s The whole Lombard territory was divided into 36 duchies, whose leader settled in the main cit
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• Aosta
  '''Aosta''' ([[French language|French]]: ''Aoste'') is the principal city and episcopal see of the [[Aosta ...ered by the [[Burgundians]], the [[Ostrogoth]]s, the [[Byzantines]]. The [[Lombard]], who had annexed it to their [[Italian Kingdom]], were expelled by the [[
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• Ventimiglia
  '''Ventimiglia''' ([[French language|in French]] ''Vintimille'', Latin '''Album Intimilium''' or '''Albintimiliu ...l''', with a fifth-century baptistery, is built on the ruins of an earlier Lombard church, and this again on a Roman building, possibly a temple.
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• History
  ...n 42 BC. After the fall of the [[Western Roman Empire]] and the [[Lombards|Lombard]] invasions, "Italy" or "Italian" gradually became the collective name for ...The Etruscans are generally believed to have spoken a non-[[Indo-European language]]. They were a monogamous society that emphasized pairing. The historical E
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• Southern Italy
  ...lian language|Sicilian]], and [[Southern Italian]]; minorities of [[Griko language|Griko]] and pockets of [[Franco-Provençal]], [[Occitan]] and [[Arbëresh]] ...ate]]. The [[Norman conquest of southern Italy]] completely subjugated the Lombard principalities, and overwhelmed the Byzantines from all but [[Naples]], whi
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• Milan
  [[Image:Milan_Domm.jpg|thumb|Milan's cathedral, 'Domm' in Lombard, 'Duomo' in Italian]] '''Milan''' ([[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Milano''; [[Milanese]]: ''Milán'') is the main city of [[nort
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• Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  ...rizia, it again became part of the Austrian Empire and was included in the Lombard-Veneto Kingdom, while Gorizia was merged with the Illyrian Kingdom and Trie === Language ===
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• Genoa
  ...city of the ancient [[Ligures|Ligurians]]. Its name is probably [[Ligurian language|Ligurian]], meaning "knee" (from [[Ancient Greek]] ''gony'' "knee"), i.e. " ...the seat of their vicar. The [[Lombards]] submitted it in 643. In 773 the Lombard Kingdom was annexed by the [[Franks|Frank]] empire; the first Carolingian c
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• History of Naples
  Everything in Naples--the buildings, museums and even the language spoken by the natives--bear traces of all the periods in its history, from ...east where they founded '''Neapolis''' (meaning "New City" in the [[Greek language]]). The original Parthenope came to be called, simply, "old city"--''Palaep
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• Padua
  ...85 ([[as of 2004|2004]]). The city is included, with [[Venice]] ([[Italian language|Italian]] ''Venezia''), in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area, population 1 ...ards]] the city of Padua rose in revolt ([[601]]) against [[Agilulf]], the Lombard king, and after suffering a long and bloody siege was stormed and burned by
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• Lega Nord
  The '''Lega Nord''' ([[Italian language|Italian]] for "'''Northern League'''," '''LN''') is an [[List of political ...of its principal precursors (and, later, sections), the [[Lega Lombarda]] (Lombard League), attained national significance in 1987 when its leader, Bossi, was
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• Florence
  '''Florence''' ([[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Firenze'') is the capital [[city]] of the region of [[Tuscany] Peace returned under [[Lombard]] rule in the 6th century. Conquered by [[Charlemagne]] in 774, Florence be
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