In his 2004 historical book on the depiction of Italians in Hollywood movies, Peter Bondanella praised the film :" A number of elements sets The Italian apart from the other films treating the Italian immigrant experience.

The 1983 academic edition of Monuments of Architecture in Moscow takes the middle ground: the church is, most likely, a product of the complex interaction of distinct Russian traditions of wooden and stone architecture, with some elements borrowed from the works of Italians in Moscow.

The Italians were, however, resisted by small elements in the gendarmerie and general population.

Following the Italian occupation of Albania in 1939, the Chams became a prominent propaganda tool for the Italians and irredentist elements among them became more vocal.

Although some elements of the local population collaborated with the Italians, counterattacks by Turkish soldiers with the help of local troops confined the Italian army to the coastal region.

By mid-July, the Italians were able to reinforce the forces on the Egyptian frontier to a strength of two full infantry divisions and elements of two more.

In the 1780s while Mozart lived and worked in Vienna, he and his father Leopold wrote in their letters that several " cabals " of Italians led by Salieri were actively putting roadblocks in the way of Mozart's obtaining certain posts or staging his operas.

The first use of an air-dropped bomb was carried out by the Italians, initially by Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti, in their 1911 war for Libya.

In their flight to Eritrea, the Italians left behind all of their artillery and 11, 000 rifles, as well as most of their transport.

One question much asked – both then and long afterward – is why did Emperor Menelik fail to follow up his victory and drive the routed Italians out of their colony?

The Ottoman state maintained control over much of the northern coastal areas for nearly three hundred years, leaving their possessions ( the province of Habesh ), to their Egyptian heirs in 1865 before being given to the Italians in 1885.

The Italians took advantage of disorder in northern Ethiopia following the death of Emperor Yohannes IV in 1889 to occupy the highlands and established their new colony, henceforth known as Eritrea, and received recognition from Menelik II, Ethiopia's new Emperor.

For their part, the Italians developed several monoplanes such as the Fiat G. 50, but being short on funds, were forced to continue operating obsolete Fiat CR. 42 biplanes.

While light, highly maneuverable aircraft did have some advantages in fighter-versus-fighter combat, those could usually be overcome by sound tactical doctrine, and the design approach of the Italians and Japanese made their planes ill-suited as interceptors or attack aircraft.

The Italians had been loyal to Tammany ; their switch proved decisive.

In 1893, judging that his power over Ethiopia was secure, Menelik repudiated the treaty ; in response the Italians ramped up the pressure on his domain in a variety of ways, including the annexation of small territories bordering their original claim under the Treaty of Wuchale, and finally culminating with a military campaign across the Mareb River into Tigray ( on the border with Eritrea ) in December 1894.

Menelik allowed them to leave Meqele with their weapons, and even provided the defeated Italians mules and pack animals to rejoin Baratieri.

After the withdrawal of the Ottoman army the Italians could easily extend their occupation of the country, seizing East Tripolitania, Ghadames, the Djebel and Fezzan with Murzuk during 1913.

Albanians fought against the Italians while, during Nazi German occupation, Balli Kombëtar allied itself with the Germans and clashed with Albanian communists, which continued their fight against Germans and Balli Kombëtar at the same time.

Ribbentrop halted deportations from Romania and Croatia ; in the case of the former, he was insulted because the SS were negotiating with the Romanians directly, and in the case of the latter because the SS and Luther were jointly pressuring the Italians in their zone of occupation in Croatia to deport their Jews without first informing Ribbentrop, who was supposed to be personally kept abreast of all developments in Italo-German relations.

Bismarck maintained good relations with Italy, although he had a personal dislike for Italians and their country.

While their subjects were composed of numerous ethnic groups ( such as Italians, Romanians, Hungarians, etc.

The Italians, with their advanced technology, may have influenced the invention of the stone tented roof ( the wooden tents were known in Russia and Europe long before ).

With their arrival at the closing of 1926, the Italians began to move into the interior where they had not been able to venture since their first seizure of the coastal towns.

Italians had developed similar rebreathers for their own frogmen ( the combat swimmers of the unit known as Decima Flottiglia MAS ), especially the ARO, developed by the famous Pirelli society.

On entering the war in June 1940, the Italians were using book codes for most of their military messages.

Lesser migrations of Scandinavians, Portuguese, Greeks, Italians, Spanish, Polish, Scots, English, Jews, Russians and Irish immigrants also contributed to this ethnic mix.

The Italians expected disaffected potentates like Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, Ras Mengesha Yohannes, and the Sultan of Aussa to join them ; instead, all of the ethnic Tigrayan or Amharic peoples flocked to the Emperor Menelik's side in a display of both nationalism and anti-Italian feeling, while other peoples of dubious loyalty ( e. g. the Sultan of Aussa ), were watched by Imperial garrisons.

In addition, after the communist occupation of Istria in 1945, up to 350, 000 ethnic Italians left Titoist Yugoslavia.

The largest ethnic minority groups are Turks, Southern Europeans ( mostly Greeks and Italians ), Eastern Europeans ( e. g. Poles, Russians ), Arabs and several other smaller groups.

Its population is primarily ethnic Alemannic, although its resident population is approximately one third foreign-born, primarily German speakers from the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and the Swiss Confederation, other Swiss, Italians, and Turks.

Immigration to Panama are represented by ethnic groups in the 19th and 20th centuries: British and Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians, Portuguese, Poles, Russians or Ukrainians ( a large number are Jews ), U. S. Americans and West Indies / Caribbean ( esp.

Supporters of Nordicism and Germanism consider Nordic people ( Scandinavians, Germans, English, Balts and Dutch ) to be superior, shunning those of Southern and Eastern Europe ( who may have darker features and different cultures ), including mostly Jews, Poles, Celts ( Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Basque ), Gypsies, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, white Latin Americans, Lusophone, white Africans, and Russians, along with anyone whose ethnic heritage is not European.

The many ethnic groups such as Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, Jews, Italians, and African Americans that began to settle in Chicago in the early 1900s were mostly detached from the political system, due in part to lack of organization which led to underrepresentation in the City Council.

The region's ethnic diversity has been affected by repeated waves of immigrant workers from abroad: Belgians before 1910 ; Poles and Italians in the 1920s and 1930s ; Italians and Germans since 1945 and North Africans and Portuguese since 1960 ; and large cities like Lille, Calais, and Boulogne are home to sizable communities of British, Dutch, Scandinavian, Sub-Saharan African, and Latin American immigrants and their descendants.

It became home to an extremely diverse population of Albanians, Armenians, Azeris, Bulgarians, Crimean Tatars, Frenchmen, Germans ( including Mennonites ), Greeks, Italians, Jews, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Turks, Ukrainians, and traders representing many other nationalities ( hence numerous " ethnic " names on the city's map, for example Frantsuzky ( French ) and Italiansky ( Italian ) Boulevards, Gretcheskaya ( Greek ), Yevreyskaya ( Jewish ), Arnautskaya ( Albanian ) Streets ).

However only 250, 000 refugees were ethnic Italians ( 76 % of which born in the territories surrendered ), the others being ethnic Slovenians, ethnic Croatians and ethnic Istro-Romanians.

Made up primarily of ethnic Irish and German Catholic immigrants, the battalion included Canadians, English, French, Italians, Poles, Scots, Spaniards, Swiss, and native Mexicans, most of whom were Roman Catholics.

The Massacre of Italians at Aigues-Mortes resulted in nine ( maybe many more: 400 victims in Le migrazioni di ieri e di oggi by Giovanni Gozzini ) Italian deaths with hundreds injured in the ethnic violence.

Mestizos of mixed Amerindian and European ( mostly Spanish and Italians ) ancestry are the largest ethnic group.

What is now the eastern portion of Chinatown just east of The Bowery, which is considered the Lower East Side was still not as fully developed as being part of Chinatown and it was a mixed ethnic neighborhood population of Chinese Cantonese, Jewish, Italians, Puerto Ricans, African Americans and a small significant number of early Chinese Fuzhou immigrants were already in existence there including Fuzhou gang groups.

Historically, Coachella was predominantly Mexican / Latino ( including Central America ) and / or Native American, but had other ethnic groups like Arabs, Armenians, Filipinos, Italians, Japanese and recent immigrants from Southeast Asia and the former Yugoslavia.

Italians were the dominant ethnic group in early years.

Following the war, Italians, mostly stemming from the Adriatic port city of Molfetta, became the city's major ethnic group, with the Irish also having a strong presence.

Campbell is home to the majority of Youngstown's Greek-American population, including other middle-class ethnic Americans, such as Croatians, Czechs, Slovaks, Italians, and Puerto Ricans.

The Italians were the only ethnic group to continue as an intact and thriving community through the Great Depression, World War II, and well beyond the ultimate demise of Hull House proper in 1963.