The term for the mountain peaks varies by nation and language: words such as horn, kogel, gipfel, and berg are used in German speaking regions: mont and aguille in French speaking regions ; and monte or cima in Italian speaking regions.

Italian language | Italian translation of Herodotus ' Histories by Count Matteo Maria Boiardo, published in Venice, Aldine Press in 1502 ( 1533?

Appointed the director of the Italian opera by the Habsburg court, a post he held from 1774 to 1792, Salieri dominated Italian language opera in Vienna.

The Italian opera buffa company was therefore replaced by a German language Singspiel troupe.

Most of the population () speaks German ( 477, 093 or 87. 1 %) as their first language, Italian is the second most common ( 17, 847 or 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian is the third ( 10, 645 or 1. 9 %).

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

69. 4 % spoke English, 6. 9 % Spanish, 3. 2 % Chinese or Mandarin, 3. 0 % Portuguese, 2. 9 % French Creole, 2. 3 % French, 1. 5 % Korean, and 1. 0 % Italian as their first language.

Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms.

Dante was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing and publishing a usable and affordable text, but the Divine Comedy was certainly used by the newly unified Italian government ( see History of Italy ) to encourage a more homogeneous, Tuscan-influenced dialect for the whole peninsula ( see Italian language ).

Corsican was long the vernacular language alongside Italian, official language in Corsica until 1859, then it was replaced by French owing to the conquest of the island by France in 1768.

The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.

Although the words written in it are close enough to Italian and Latin for the non-Corsican speaker with a language background to follow, the pronunciation of those letters in English, French or Italian is not a guide to the pronunciation of Corsican, which follows complex rules.

In one opinion, this pattern is clearly present among the modern Romance tongues, with Italian and Spanish having a high degree of mutual comprehensibility, which neither language shares with French, despite some claiming that both languages are genetically closer to French than to each other: In fact, French-Italian and French-Spanish relative mutual incomprehensibility is due to French having undergone more rapid and more pervasive phonological change than have Spanish and Italian, not to real or imagined distance in genetic relationship.

In addition to English, his mother tongue, he speaks French and Italian fluently ( the language spoken at home with his children is Italian ).

Esperantists in German concentration camps taught the language to fellow prisoners, telling guards they were teaching Italian, the language of one of Germany's Axis allies.

Fascist Italy, however, allowed the use of Esperanto finding its phonology similar to that of Italian and publishing some touristic material in the language.

His Italian journey was a poet's version of those perennial thrusts across the Alps of the German emperors of the Middle Ages.

Several later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.

The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

In 1783 the Italian opera company was revived with singers partly chosen and vetted by Salieri during his Italian tour, the new season would open with a slightly re-worked version of Salieri's recent success La scuola de ' gelosi.

Even this version had room for improvement, leading British Aerospace and the Italian firm Alenia to develop advanced versions of Sparrow with better performance and improved electronics as the BAe Skyflash and Alenia Aspide, respectively.

The Italian company Finmeccanica, Alenia Difesa licensed the AIM-7E Sparrow technology from the US, and produced its own improved version called Aspide.

The LY-60 / FD-60 / PL-10 is a family of PRC missiles developed by the Shanghai Academy of Science and Technology, largely based on the Italian Aspide missile-a version of the Sparrow.

* The Italian version is called La Ballata del Soldato, sung by Quartetto Cetra.

Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname " Colombo ".

A CBD manual for botanic gardens English version, Italian version Botanic Gardens Conservation International ( BGCI )

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Because of the Ethiopian refusal to abide by the Italian version of the treaty and despite economic handicaps at home, the Italian government decided on a military solution to force Ethiopia to abide by the Italian version of the treaty.

In Italy, Yamato Video dubbed the international version of both movies into Italian, despite using complete international prints for both films.

Sale here appears to allude to reports of both the known manuscripts: the Italian and the Spanish ; although it is to be noted that the specific terms paraclete or periclyte are not explicitly found in the text of either version.

This Italian manuscript formed the basis for the most commonly circulated English version, a translation undertaken by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg and published in 1907.

Although, the most important disputed issue with Croatia is Slovenian and Italian opposition to the proclamation of the Croatian Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone ( Exclusive Economic Zone ) in the Adriatic sea.

The origin of the name " Carnival " is disputed, between those that have argue a link with the Italian word " carne " ( meat ), and those that argue a link with the word " carrus " ( car ).

The name " troubadour " and its cognates in other languages — trov ( i ) èro and then trovatore in Italian, trovador in Spanish, trobador in Catalan — are of disputed origin.

The League of Nations decried Italy's participation in this war and the Italian claim on Ethiopia's conquest was disputed by some members of the international community ( namely the United States and the Soviet Union ) but accepted by Great Britain and France in 1938.

It was not all doom and gloom for the club, however ; in the 1970s, they won the Italian Cup twice, the second of which was disputed against Palermo.

Aradia ( possibly a corrupted form Erodiade, the Italian form of the name of Herodias ) is one of the principal figures in the American folklorist Charles Leland ’ s 1899 work Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, which he believed to be a genuine religious text used by a group of pagan witches in Tuscany, a claim that has subsequently been disputed by other folklorists and historians.

In December 1934 there was a clash between Italian and Abyssinian troops at Walwal, near the border between British and Italian Somaliland, in which Italian troops took possession of the disputed territory and in which 150 Abyssinians and 50 Italians were killed.

Alongside these formal Left Communist tendencies, the Italian group led by Amadeo Bordiga is often commonly recognized as a Left Communist party, although both Bordiga and the Italian Communist Left disputed this and qualified their politics as separate, distinct and more in line with the Third International's positions than the politics of Left Communism.

Although this view has been disputed by American scholars, Italian ethnohistorian, Paolo Portone, has demonstrated reference to the cult of Diana in the records of the earliest witch trials, including in the Canon Episcopi.

Whether Sorel is better seen as a left-wing or right-wing thinker is disputed: the Italian Fascists praised him as a forefather, but the dictatorial government they established ran contrary to his beliefs, while he was also an important touchstone for Italy's first Communists, who saw Sorel as a theorist of the proletariat.

Finally, with the growth of tourism, some words reflecting modern Greek culture have been borrowed into English — many of them originally borrowings into Greek themselves: retsina, souvlaki, taverna (< Italian ), ouzo ( disputed etymology ), moussaka (< Turkish < Arabic ), baklava (< Turkish ), feta (< Italian ), bouzouki (< Turkish ), gyro ( the food, a calque of Turkish döner ).

Origins of the sandwich are disputed, but one early vendor, Al's No. 1 Italian Beef, opened its first stand in 1938.

On November 20, 2006, the director of the museum, Michael Brand, announced that twenty-six disputed pieces were to be returned to Italy, but not the Victorious Youth, which is still claimed by the Italian authorities.

It is one of several Italian comuni named " Cantalupo " (" song of the wolf " or " howl of the wolf " or literally " singing wolf ") and it seems that these place names are due to an elevated presence of wolves at the time of their naming ( probably because wolves could be heard howling, but this etymology is actually disputed nowadays ).

However, in 1954, according to Time, Capece Minutolo's " right to be called a marchioness was recently disputed when two Italian newsmen declared that her parents were a chauffeur and a janitor's daughter.

However, the Italian King's claim over the Ethiopian throne-and Italy's rule over Ethiopia in general-were disputed in the International Community, and came to an end five years later with the British conquest of Italian East Africa during World War II.

The origins of carrot cake are disputed but it is thought to have first arisen from the Picascio family, who are of Italian descent.

Some Italian scholars have attempted to identify him with the Venetian sculptor Alevisio Lamberti da Montagnano, but the point is still widely disputed.

Cassini called his attention to the spots on Jupiter, and he disputed with Eustachio Divini, an Italian optician, the priority of their discovery.