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Italy’s Many Voices
Italy Is Not One Country – It Is Many
Ask an Italian where they’re from and they will rarely say simply “Italy.” They will say Napoli, or Venezia, or la Sicilia. This is not modesty about their country — it is a profound statement about identity. The Italian peninsula has spent most of its history as a collection of independent kingdoms, city-states, republics, and empires, each building its own culture, cuisine, traditions, and language from the ground up. National unification only arrived in 1861 — just 164 years ago. The deep roots go back millennia.
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