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Italy ('''Italian:''' ''Italia''), officially known as the '''Italian Republic''' ('''Italian:''' ''Repubblica italiana''), is the Southern UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}an country which gave us two popular foodstuffs (pasta and pizza), the Latin alphabet (used by Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and many other languages), opera, ballet, UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, the Republic (the form of government, not the book), musical notation, the university system (started in Bologna in 1088 A.D.), eyeglasses, Humanism, ''[[InsistentTerminology Roman]]'' [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholicism]], the world's oldest active firearms manufacturing company (Beretta), UsefulNotes/{{Fascism}} and TheMafia. Despite importing its two major religious influences (the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek gods]] influenced the pre-existing Roman religion in classical times and UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} was imported from UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}), Italy has been a major center of theological thought. The country is a member of both UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion and UsefulNotes/{{NATO}}. Now has the Euro, so RidiculousExchangeRates jokes no longer work. One of the top 8 largest economies in the world by GDP and easily in the top 20 by any economic measurement, despite corruption, few natural resources, a backwards South, an archaic political structure and incompetent (at best) politicians.

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Italy ('''Italian:''' ''Italia''), officially known as the '''Italian Republic''' ('''Italian:''' ''Repubblica italiana''), is the Southern UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}an country which gave us two popular foodstuffs (pasta and pizza), AncientRome, the Latin alphabet (used by Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and many other languages), opera, ballet, UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, the Republic (the form of government, not the book), opera, ballet, UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, musical notation, the university system (started in Bologna in 1088 A.D.), eyeglasses, Humanism, ''[[InsistentTerminology Roman]]'' [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholicism]], the world's oldest active firearms manufacturing company (Beretta), UsefulNotes/{{Fascism}} and TheMafia. Despite importing its two major religious influences (the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek gods]] influenced the pre-existing Roman religion in classical times and UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} was imported from UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}), Italy has been a major center of theological thought. The country is a member of both UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion and UsefulNotes/{{NATO}}. Now has the Euro, so RidiculousExchangeRates jokes no longer work. One of the top 8 largest economies in the world by GDP and easily in the top 20 by any economic measurement, despite corruption, few natural resources, a backwards South, an archaic political structure and incompetent (at best) politicians.
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Italy ('''Italian:''' ''Italia''), officially known as the '''Italian Republic''' ('''Italian:''' ''Repubblica italiana''), is the Southern European country which gave us two popular foodstuffs (pasta and pizza), the Latin alphabet (used by Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and many other languages), opera, ballet, UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, the Republic (the form of government, not the book), musical notation, the university system (started in Bologna in 1088 A.D.), eyeglasses, Humanism, ''[[InsistentTerminology Roman]]'' [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholicism]], the world's oldest active firearms manufacturing company (Beretta), UsefulNotes/{{Fascism}} and TheMafia. Despite importing its two major religious influences (the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek gods]] influenced the pre-existing Roman religion in classical times and UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} was imported from UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}), Italy has been a major center of theological thought. The country is a member of both UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion and UsefulNotes/{{NATO}}. Now has the Euro, so RidiculousExchangeRates jokes no longer work. One of the top 8 largest economies in the world by GDP and easily in the top 20 by any economic measurement, despite corruption, few natural resources, a backwards South, an archaic political structure and incompetent (at best) politicians.

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Italy ('''Italian:''' ''Italia''), officially known as the '''Italian Republic''' ('''Italian:''' ''Repubblica italiana''), is the Southern European UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}an country which gave us two popular foodstuffs (pasta and pizza), the Latin alphabet (used by Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and many other languages), opera, ballet, UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, the Republic (the form of government, not the book), musical notation, the university system (started in Bologna in 1088 A.D.), eyeglasses, Humanism, ''[[InsistentTerminology Roman]]'' [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholicism]], the world's oldest active firearms manufacturing company (Beretta), UsefulNotes/{{Fascism}} and TheMafia. Despite importing its two major religious influences (the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek gods]] influenced the pre-existing Roman religion in classical times and UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} was imported from UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}), Italy has been a major center of theological thought. The country is a member of both UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion and UsefulNotes/{{NATO}}. Now has the Euro, so RidiculousExchangeRates jokes no longer work. One of the top 8 largest economies in the world by GDP and easily in the top 20 by any economic measurement, despite corruption, few natural resources, a backwards South, an archaic political structure and incompetent (at best) politicians.
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Italy was a late-comer to the scramble for Africa, but it eventually managed to acquire some hard-scrabble colonies (Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea) between 1882 and 1911; UsefulNotes/WorldWarI brought a chance for the new country to shine on the world stage, and Italy was persuaded to leave its previous alliance with Germany and Austria (it should be noted, however, that said alliance was purely defensive in nature and that the majority of Italians despised the Austrians, who had been their long-time enemies) and join the Allies (1915) in exchange for some territorial gains at Austria's expense. They got it, but still felt short-changed. The rise of UsefulNotes/RedOctober inspired a major revolutionary wave in Italy, further polarizing the regional and class divide and fracturing the pre-war constitutional monarchy. This paved the way for the rise of UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini and UsefulNotes/FascistItaly. During TheThirties, Mussolini at times seemed like he could tilt towards an anti-Nazi side (similar to the Greek dictators, who were friendly with England) despite fighting alongside Hitler during the fascist intervention of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, but he eventually decided to fight on Hitler's side.

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Italy was a late-comer to the scramble for Africa, but it eventually managed to acquire some hard-scrabble colonies (Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea) between 1882 and 1911; UsefulNotes/WorldWarI brought a chance for the new country to shine on the world stage, and Italy was persuaded to leave its previous alliance with Germany and Austria (it should be noted, however, that said alliance was purely defensive in nature and that the majority of Italians despised the Austrians, who had been their long-time enemies) and join the Allies (1915) in exchange for some territorial gains at Austria's expense. They got it, but still felt short-changed. The rise of UsefulNotes/RedOctober inspired a major revolutionary wave in Italy, further polarizing the regional and class divide and fracturing the pre-war constitutional monarchy. This paved the way for the rise of UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini and UsefulNotes/FascistItaly. During TheThirties, Mussolini at times seemed like he could tilt towards an anti-Nazi side (similar to the Greek dictators, who were friendly with England) despite fighting alongside Hitler during the fascist intervention of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, but he eventually decided to fight on Hitler's side.
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Italy ('''Italian:''' ''Italia''), officially known as the '''Italian Republic''' ('''Italian:''' ''Repubblica italiana''), is the Southern European country which gave us two popular foodstuffs (pasta and pizza), the Latin alphabet (used by Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and many other languages), opera, ballet, UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, the Republic (the form of government, not the book), musical notation, the university system (started in Bologna in 1088 A.D.), eyeglasses, Humanism, ''[[InsistentTerminology Roman]]'' [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholicism]], the world's oldest active firearms manufacturing company (Beretta), UsefulNotes/{{Fascism}} and TheMafia. Despite importing its two major religious influences (the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek gods]] influenced the pre-existing Roman religion in classical times and UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} was imported from UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}), Italy has been a major center of theological thought. The country is a member of both UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion and UsefulNotes/{{NATO}}. Now has the Euro, so RidiculousExchangeRates jokes no longer work. One of the top 8 largest economies in the world by GDP, and easily in the top 20 by any economic measurement, despite corruption, few natural resources, a backwards South, an archaic political structure and incompetent (at best) politicians.

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Italy ('''Italian:''' ''Italia''), officially known as the '''Italian Republic''' ('''Italian:''' ''Repubblica italiana''), is the Southern European country which gave us two popular foodstuffs (pasta and pizza), the Latin alphabet (used by Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and many other languages), opera, ballet, UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, the Republic (the form of government, not the book), musical notation, the university system (started in Bologna in 1088 A.D.), eyeglasses, Humanism, ''[[InsistentTerminology Roman]]'' [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholicism]], the world's oldest active firearms manufacturing company (Beretta), UsefulNotes/{{Fascism}} and TheMafia. Despite importing its two major religious influences (the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek gods]] influenced the pre-existing Roman religion in classical times and UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} was imported from UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}), Italy has been a major center of theological thought. The country is a member of both UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion and UsefulNotes/{{NATO}}. Now has the Euro, so RidiculousExchangeRates jokes no longer work. One of the top 8 largest economies in the world by GDP, GDP and easily in the top 20 by any economic measurement, despite corruption, few natural resources, a backwards South, an archaic political structure and incompetent (at best) politicians.
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Modern Italy manages to be one of the world's leading economies, despite the country having all the political stability of a pyramid of cards in front of an active fan (seriously, since the birth of republican Italy, the government lasted less than a year in average!) and an (ex, for now) Prime Minister convicted ''and'' still under investigation for all manner of corruption, [[Main/WhiteCollarCrime white-collar crimes]] and rather more interesting crimes. The main Italian car company is Turin-based Fiat, which currently owns Chrysler (marking the second time a European car company owns Chrysler, the first being German Daimler corporation); ENI and ENEL are two major players in the oil industry and electricity, respectively, and Italy's Unicredit is one of Europe's largest banks. It is no surprise that just about every major Italian company is headquartered in or north of Rome.

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Modern Italy manages to be one of the world's leading economies, despite the country having all the political stability of a pyramid of cards in front of an active fan (seriously, since the birth of republican Italy, the government lasted less than a year in average!) and an (ex, for now) Prime Minister convicted ''and'' still under investigation for all manner of corruption, [[Main/WhiteCollarCrime white-collar crimes]] and rather more interesting crimes. The main Italian car company is Turin-based Fiat, Fiat [[labelnote:Translation]]International Automobile Factory of Turin [[/labelnote]], which currently owns owned Chrysler (marking the second time a European car company owns owned Chrysler, the first being German Daimler corporation); corporation), until Dutch conglomerate Stellantis acquired both of them; ENI and ENEL are two major players in the oil industry and electricity, respectively, and Italy's Unicredit is one of Europe's largest banks. It is no surprise that just about every major Italian company is headquartered in or north of Rome.

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