The Aegadian Islands ( Sicilian: Ìsuli Ègadi, ;,, meaning the islands of goats ), are a group of small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, Italy, near the city of Trapani, with a total area of.

After this visit, in which she was deemed sufficiently orthodox, she began traveling with her followers throughout northern and central Italy advocating reform of the clergy and the launch of a new crusade and advising people that repentance and renewal could be done through " the total love for God.

The five top European leagues – the Premier League ( England ), La Liga ( Spain ), Serie A ( Italy ), the Bundesliga ( Germany ) and Ligue 1 ( France ) – attract most of the world's best players and each of the leagues has a total wage cost in excess of £ 600 million /€ 763 million / US $ 1. 185 billion.

The Po Valley is the largest plain in Italy, with, and it represents over 70 % of the total plain area in the country.

The present-day figure of about 4. 6 million foreign residents, that make up some 8 % of the total population, include more than half a million children born in Italy to foreign nationals — second generation immigrants, but exclude foreign nationals who have subsequently acquired Italian nationality ; this applied to 53, 696 people in 2008.

In the 2005-2009 period, Italy has been the first EU arms exporter towards Libya, with a total value of € 276. 7m, of which one third only in the last 2008 – 2009 years.

Government records indicated that approximately 12, 000 immigrants entered the port of Asunción between 1882 and 1907, of that total, almost 9, 000 came from Italy, Germany, France, and Spain.

The sector generates a turnover of € 2, 671 million Euros, 3. 3 % of the € 80, 196 million which represents the total estimated spending on tourism in Italy.

Also, Italian police made a large number of arrests in 1980: 12, 000 far-left militants were detained while 300 fled to France and 200 to South America ; a total of 600 people left Italy.

Australia ranks 7th in terms of the total number of gaming machines after Japan, USA, Italy, UK, Spain and Germany.

589, 000 caused by food shortages and 432, 000 by the Spanish Flu Another estimate of the demographic loss of the civilian population in the Italy during the war put total excess deaths at 324, 000 not including an additional 300, 000 Spanish Flu deaths.

Shortly afterwards, World War II broke out, pitting the Allied powers ( chiefly the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom ) against the Axis powers ( Nazi Germany, the Empire of Japan, and Italy ) which eventually resulted in a total victory for the Allies, at the cost of over 60 million lives, including millions of civilians, and the complete devastation of many nations.

Franco Basaglia, a leading Italian psychiatrist who inspired and was the architect of the psychiatric reform in Italy, also defined mental hospital as an oppressive, locked and total institution in which prison-like, punitive rules are applied, in order to gradually eliminate its own contents, and patients, doctors and nurses are all subjected ( at different levels ) to the same process of institutionalism.

Veneto is the 8th largest region in Italy, with a total area of.

The region has a population of around 5. 8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy ; its total area of 13, 590 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country.

In addition, to the south, Murat's Kingdom of Naples and Eugène de Beauharnais's Kingdom of Italy had a total of 100, 000 armed men.

Bolivia led a diplomatic effort to do so beginning in March 2009, but eighteen countries out of a total of 184, those 18 being listed as followed ( chronologically: the United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Latvia, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Mexico, Russian Federation, Malaysia, Singapore, and Ukraine ) objected to the change before the January 2011 deadline.

The triumvirs decided to leave Lepidus in Italy, while the two main partners of the triumvirate ( Antony and Octavian ) moved to Northern Greece with their best troops ( a total of 28 legions ).

He spent much of his life exiled from his homeland of Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison.

The combined total for the peak active user bases in all Western European markets ( 600, 000 for Belgium in 1991, 400, 000 for Italy in 1992, and 5. 8 million combined for the other markets in 1993 ) add up to 6. 8 million units in Western Europe between 1991 and 1993.

Under this law Italian taxpayers are able to vote how to partition the 0. 8 % (' eight per thousand ') of the total income tax IRPEF levied by Italy among some specific religious confessions or, alternatively, to a social assistance program run by the Italian State.

Benedict made many unsuccessful attempts to negotiate peace, but these pleas for a negotiated peace made him unpopular, even in Catholic countries like Italy, among many supporters of the war who were determined to accept nothing less than total victory.

* while only various military commanders and since 1916 a Secretary for Civil Affairs in Albania ( Ugo Capialbi ) had acted for Rome since Italy invaded on 27 December 1914 ( occupying Valorë and parts of Southern Albania ; on 3 June 1917 Albanian independence under an Italian protectorate was declared by Italy, opposed by most Albanians ; adding in November 1918 the former Austro-Hungarian occupied areas to the Italian zone ) only since in 1919 an Albanian provisional government recognized by Italy as the legal government of the protected zone, consecutive High Commissioners for the Crown were appointed until Italy effectively withdraw its troops on 3 September 1920 ( as agreed on 22 August 1920 when formally recognizing the total independence of Albania ):

If you would like to start your tour in Italy, where the rental fees are actually the lowest in Europe, Fiats in all sizes are available, as are Alfa Romeo Giulietta models.

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

At present the Alps are one of the more popular tourist destinations in the world with many resorts such Oberstdorf, in Bavaria, Saalbach in Austria, Davos in Switzerland, Chamonix in France, and Cortina d ' Ampezzo in Italy recording more than a million annual visitors.

Amber conventions, known as Ambercons, are held yearly in Massachusetts, Michigan, Portland ( United States ), Milton Keynes ( England ) and Modena, Italy.

In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.

Historians consider this the decisive factor in convincing Alboin to undertake a migration, even though there are indications that before the war with the Gepids a decision was maturing to leave for Italy, a country thousands of Lombards had seen in the 550s when hired by the Byzantines to fight in the Gothic War.

Offshoots are found in the western Mediterranean area, in Sicily, Italy, Sardinia and Spain, and in the eastern Mediterranean area in Syria and Egypt.

The electoral results of National Alliance in the 10 most populated Regions of Italy are shown in the table below.

Bank of Italy gold reserves are 2, 451. 8 tonnes ( 2006 ).

Other well-known areas are: Chironico ( Switzerland ), Stanage ( UK ), Hueco Tanks ( Texas ), Val Masino and Val di Mello ( Italy ), Castle Hill ( New Zealand ), Bishop ( California ), Joe's Valley ( Utah ), Yosemite ( California ), Rocktown ( Georgia ), Rocklands ( South Africa ), Cocalzinho de Goiás ( Brazil ), Kjugekull ( Sweden ), Hampi ( India ) Horse Pens 40 ( Alabama ) and Horseshoe Canyon Ranch ( Arkansas ) amongst others.

In the Philippines, France, Italy, and Egypt, they are simply called cutter.

An extreme case are the twelve Battles of the Isonzo — First to Twelfth — between Italy and Austria-Hungary during the First World War.

However, there are detailed records of various fist-fighting sports that were maintained in different cities and provinces of Italy between the 12th and 17th centuries.

While of the other the tribes who had come to Italy along with the Boii, the Senones, Lingones and Cenomani are also attested in Gaul at the time of the Roman conquest, there is no such clear evidence for the Boii in Gaul.

Contrary to the interpretation of the classical writers, the Pannonian Boii attested in later sources are not simply the remnants of those who had fled from Italy, but rather another division of the tribe, which had settled there much earlier.

Some other important names in this regard are UK and Italy.

Therefore Latinos are Americans who are descendants of the Latin group ( namely Spain, France, Italy and Portugal ) and Hispanic refers to the descendants from the Iberian Peninsula ( also known as Ibero-American ).

While following the tradition that she lived in Italy, he comments wryly that there are now many more temptresses like her to lead men astray.

Examples of narrow gauge systems are found in Japan, Switzerland, in the Brisbane ( Citytrain ) and Perth ( Transperth ) systems in Australia, in Sweden, and on the Genoa-Casella line in Italy.