italia

Noun
  1. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula;
    Was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD (synset 108819530)
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    • cannae - ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC
    • battle of caporetto, caporetto - battle of World War I (1917); Italians were defeated by the Austrian and German forces
    • battle of lake trasimenus, lake trasimenus - a battle in 217 BC in which Hannibal ambushed a Roman army led by Flaminius
    • battle of magenta, magenta - a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
    • marengo - a battle in 1800 in which the French under Napoleon Bonaparte won a great victory over the Austrians
    • metaurus river - a battle during the second Punic War (207 BC); Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal was defeated by the Romans which ended Hannibal's hopes for success in Italy
    • battle of ravenna, ravenna - a battle between the French and an alliance of Spaniards and Swiss and Venetians in 1512
    • salerno - a battle in World War II; the port was captured by United States troops in September 1943
    • battle of solferino, solferino - an indecisive battle in 1859 between the French and Sardinians under Napoleon III and the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
    • battle of trasimeno, trasimeno - a battle in central Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans under Flaminius in 217 BC
    • spaghetti western - a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company
    • aloha, ciao - an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian)
    • italian - the Romance language spoken in Italy
    • grissino - a long slender crusty breadstick
    • polenta - a thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water
    • calamari, calamary, squid - (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
    • br, brigate rosse, red brigades - a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989
    • nipr, revolutionary proletarian initiative nuclei, revolutionary proletarian nucleus - a clandestine group of leftist extremists who oppose Italy's labor policies and foreign policy; responsible for bombing building in the historic center of Rome from 2000 to 2002
    • commune - the smallest administrative district of several European countries
    • basilicata, lucania - a region of southern Italy (forming the instep of the Italian `boot')
    • calabria - a region of southern Italy (forming the toe of the Italian `boot')
    • al dente - of pasta cooked so as to be firm when eaten
    is an instance of: european country, european nation - any one of the countries occupying the European continent
    member holonym:
    • italian - a native or inhabitant of Italy
    • sabine - a member of an ancient Oscan-speaking people of the central Apennines north of Rome who were conquered and assimilated into the Roman state in 290 BC
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    has:
    • appian way - an ancient Roman road in Italy extending south from Rome to Brindisi; begun in 312 BC
    • flaminian way - an ancient Roman road in Italy built by Gaius Flaminius in 220 BC; extends north from Rome to cisalpine Gaul
    • italian peninsula - a boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea
    • pompeii - ancient city to the southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius
    • herculaneum - ancient city; now destroyed
    • abruzzi, abruzzi e molise - a mountainous region of central Italy on the Adriatic
    • basilicata, lucania - a region of southern Italy (forming the instep of the Italian `boot')
    • bolzano - an Italian city in Trentino-Alto Adige near the Austrian border; noted as a resort and for its Alpine scenery
    • brescia - an ancient Italian city in central Lombardy
    • calabria - a region of southern Italy (forming the toe of the Italian `boot')
    • campania - a region of southwestern Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea including the islands of Capri and Ischia
    • ferrara - a city in northern Italy
    • emilia-romagna - a region of north central Italy on the Adriatic
    • friuli-venezia giulia - a region in northeastern Italy
    • latium, lazio - an ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea
    • capital of italy, eternal city, italian capital, roma, rome - capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
    • anzio - a town of central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea; the Allies established a beachhead at Anzio in World War II
    • brindisi - a port city in southeastern Apulia in Italy; a center for the Crusades in the Middle Ages
    • tibur, tivoli - a town twenty miles to the east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name); a summer resort during the Roman empire; noted for its waterfalls
    • liguria - region of northwestern Italy on the Ligurian Sea
    • lombardia, lombardy - a region of north central Italy bordering Switzerland
    • marche, marches - a region in central Italy
    • molise - a region of south central Italy
    • papal states - the temporal dominions belonging to the pope (especially in central Italy)
    • piedmont, piemonte - the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
    • apulia, puglia - a region in southeastern Italy on the Adriatic
    • sardegna, sardinia - the Italian region on the island of Sardinia; the kingdom of Sardinia was the nucleus for uniting Italy during the 19th century
    • sicilia, sicily - the Italian region on the island of Sicily
    • toscana, tuscany - a region in central Italy
    • trentino-alto adige - a region of northeastern Italy bordering Austria
    • umbria - a mountainous region in central Italy
    • valle d'aosta - a region in northwestern Italy
    • venetia, veneto, venezia-euganea - a region of northeastern Italy on the Adriatic
    • etruria - an ancient country in central Italy; assimilated by the Romans by about 200 BC
    • tirol, tyrol - a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria and northern Italy
    • riviera - a coastal area between La Spezia in Italy and Cannes in France
    • savoy - a geographical region of historical importance; a former duchy in what is now southwestern France, western Switzerland, and northwestern Italy
    • mount vesuvius, mt. vesuvius, vesuvius - a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944
    • adige, river adige - a river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea
    • alps, the alps - a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction
    • apennines - a mountain range extending the length of the Italian peninsula
    • arno, arno river, river arno - a river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea
    • bay of naples - an arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Naples
    • brenner pass - an Alpine mountain pass connecting Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy that has long been a route for trade and for invasions
    • dolomite alps - an eastern range of the Alps in northeastern Italy famous for their dolomitic limestone
    • matterhorn - a mountain in the Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy (14,780 feet high); noted for its distinctive shape
    • mont blanc, monte bianco - the highest mountain peak in the Alps; on the border between France and Italy to the south of Geneva (15,781 feet high)
    • po, po river - a European river; flows into the Adriatic Sea
    • tyrolean alps - a popular tourist area in the Tyrol
    is a part of: europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
    same as: italian republic, italy

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