HISTORY

Italy with official name is Italian Republic or in Italian name called Repubblica italiana.
Italy is a country in Southern Europe which consists of a boot - shaped peninsula. Italy border on France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. Italian country covering an area 301,338 km² which influenced by a temperate climate, with the population of 60,4 million. Italy is a country with the sixth largest population in Europe, and the 23rd most populous in the world.

Rome is a capital of Italy was for centuries the political center of the Western World. The city was once the capital of the Roman Empire. Rome emerged as a powerfull city- states around 350 BC. Rome fall in 476. After the fall of Rome, Italy remained fragmented in many states and cities and fall under foreign domination different.

New Italian kingdom, founded in 1861, and quickly modernized and built a large colonial empire. But many young country regions (notably,South) remains rural and poor from Italian Diaspora. Italy suffered great losses in World War I, but came out on the winning side. Italy joined the Axis powers in World War II, fell into a bloody civil war after a coup overthrew the monarchy Mussolini in 1943, surrendered to the Allies in 1943 and joined their party, and eventually win the war against Fascist and Nazi Germany in 1945.