Minä vuonna Italia haki paikkaansa Euroopan valtioiden joukossa?
di Diano National Park in Campania. In ancient times, the Apennine peninsula was the heartland of the ancient Roman Empire. Before the Romans, Italy was inhabited by the Etruscans, among others. In 476, the western part of the divided Roman Empire disintegrated, and for more than a thousand years the region was divided into small principalities. Part of the region was also ruled from time to time by, among others, Byzantium and Spain. The French Normans also had a kingdom in southern Italy and Sicily in the Middle Ages. After the territorial division made by the Congress of Vienna after the Napoleonic Wars, there were six states in the area of ​​present-day Italy: the Kingdom of Both Sicilies, the Church State, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy of Parma, the Duchy of Modena and Reggio, and the Kingdom of Sardinia, which, in addition to Sardinia, also included areas in northern Italy and on the mainland. The region of Venice and the Pojoe valley belonged to Austria.
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