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Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe . Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea , Italy shares open land borders with France , Switzerland , Austria , Slovenia , San Marino and Vatican City . Italy covers an area of and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate ; due to its shape , it is often referred to in Italy as " lo Stivale " ( the Boot ). With 61 million inhabitants , it is the fourth most populous EU ___MASK88___ state . Numerian ( died 20 November 284 ) was Roman ___MASK50___ from 283 to 284 with his older brother Carinus . They were sons of Carus , a general raised to the office of praetorian prefect under ___MASK50___ Probus in 282 . ___MASK41___ Sylvester ' s Day , also known as Silvester ( also spelled Sylvester , Szilveszter , or Sylwester ) or the Feast of ___MASK41___ Sylvester , is the day of the feast of Pope Sylvester I , a ___MASK41___ who served as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 314 to 335 and oversaw both the First Council of Nicaea and Roman ___MASK50___ Constantine I ' s conversion to Christianity . Among the Western Christian Churches , the feast day is held on the anniversary of ___MASK41___ Sylvester ' s death , 31 December , a date that , since the adoption of the Gregorian calendar , has coincided with New Year ' s Eve . For these Christian denominations , ___MASK41___ Silvester ' s Day liturgically marks the seventh day of Christmastide . Eastern Orthodox Churches celebrate Sylvester ' s feast on a different day that the Western Churches , 2 January . ___MASK41___ Sylvester ' s Day celebrations are marked by church attendance at Midnight Mass or a Watch Night service , as well as fireworks , partying , and feasting . The Crisis of the Third Century , also known as ___MASK67___ Anarchy or the Imperial Crisis ( AD 235  284 ), was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion , civil war , plague , and economic depression . The Crisis began with the assassination of ___MASK50___ Severus Alexander by his own troops in 235 , initiating a 50 - year period in which there were at least 26 claimants to the title of ___MASK50___ , mostly prominent Roman army generals , who assumed imperial power over all or part of the Empire . The same number of men became accepted by the Roman Senate as ___MASK50___ during this period and so became legitimate emperors . Fano is a town and " comune " of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy . It is a beach resort southeast of Pesaro , located where the " Via Flaminia " reaches the Adriatic Sea . It is the third city in the region by population after Ancona and Pesaro . Diocletian , born Diocles ( 244  312 ), was a Roman ___MASK50___ from 284 to 305 . Born to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia , Diocletian rose through the ranks of the military to become cavalry commander to the ___MASK50___ Carus . After the deaths of Carus and his son Numerian on campaign in Persia , Diocletian was proclaimed ___MASK50___ . The title was also claimed by Carus ' other surviving son , Carinus , but Diocletian defeated him in the Battle of the Margus . Diocletian ' s reign stabilized the empire and marks the end of the Crisis of the Third Century . He appointed fellow officer Maximian as Augustus , co - ___MASK50___ , in 286 . Fermo ( ancient : Firmum Picenum ) is a town and " comune " of the Marche , Italy , in the Province of Fermo . The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula and the Apennine Mountains from the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges . The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea , extending from the Strait of Otranto ( where it connects to the Ionian Sea ) to the northwest and the Po Valley . The countries with coasts on the Adriatic are Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , Greece , Italy , Montenegro and Slovenia . The Adriatic contains over 1 , 300 islands , mostly located along its eastern , Croatian , coast . It is divided into three basins , the northern being the shallowest and the southern being the deepest , with a maximum depth of . The Otranto Sill , an underwater ridge , is located at the border between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas . The prevailing currents flow counterclockwise from the Strait of Otranto , along the eastern coast and back to the strait along the western ( Italian ) coast . Tidal movements in the Adriatic are slight , although larger amplitudes are known to occur occasionally . The Adriatic ' s salinity is lower than the Mediterranean ' s because the Adriatic collects a third of the fresh water flowing into the Mediterranean , ___MASK12___ as a dilution basin . The surface water temperatures generally range from in summer to in winter , significantly moderating the Adriatic Basin ' s climate . Carinus ( died 285 ) was Roman ___MASK50___ from 283 to 285 . The elder son of ___MASK50___ Carus , he was first appointed " Caesar " and in the beginning of 283 co - ___MASK50___ of the western portion of the empire by his father . Official accounts of his character and career have been filtered through the propaganda of his successful opponent , Diocletian . The pope ( from " pappas ", a child ' s word for " ___MASK89___ ") is the Bishop of Rome and , therefore , the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . The primacy of the Roman bishop is largely derived from his role as the traditional successor to Saint Peter , to whom Jesus is supposed to have given the keys of Heaven and the powers of " binding and loosing ", naming him as the " rock " upon which the church would be built . The current pope is Francis , who was elected on 13 March 2013 , succeeding Benedict XVI . Picenum was a region of ancient Italy . The name is an exonym assigned by the Romans , who conquered and incorporated it into the Roman Republic . Picenum was the " Regio V " in the augustan territorial organization of Italy . Picenum was also the birthplace of such roman notables as Pompey the Great and his ___MASK89___ Pompeius Strabo . It was situated in what is now Marche and the northern part of Abruzzo . The Piceni or Picentes were the native population of Picenum , but they were not of uniform ethnicity . They maintained a religious centre in Cupra Marittima , in honor of the goddess Cupra . The province of Fermo is a province in the Marche region of central Italy . It was established in 2004 and became operational in 2009 . Its administrative centre and provincial capital is the city of Fermo ( population of 37 , 728 inhabitants as of 2015 ). Other ___MASK28___ cities include Porto Sant ' Elpidio ( 25 , 434 inhabitants ), Porto San Giorgio ( 16 , 372 inhabitants ), Sant ' Elpidio a Mare ( 17 , 020 inhabitants ), and Montegranaro ( 13 , 428 inhabitants ). As of 2015 , the province has a population of 176 , 380 inhabitants and spans an area of , giving it a population density of 204 . 44 inhabitants per square kilometre . It contains 40 " comuni ". Augustus ( 23 September 63 BC  19 August 14 AD ) was the ___MASK46___ of the Roman Principate and considered the first ___MASK50___ , controlling the Roman Empire from 27 BC until his death in AD 14 . Carus ( c . 222  July or August 283 ) was Roman ___MASK50___ from 282 to 283 , and was 60 at ascension . During his short reign , Carus fought the Germanic tribes and Sarmatians along the Danube frontier with success . He brought stability in the empire and died in 283 aged 61 . Pesaro is a town and " comune " in the Italian region of the Marche , capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province , on the Adriatic . According to the 2011 census , its population was 95 , 011 , making it the second most populous city in the Marche , after Ancona . Pesaro is known as "" City of Bicycle "", thanks to its big net of bicycle paths . The city received this award by Legambiente , the most important ___MASK1___ society in Italy , in 2015 , because it is the city with the biggest bicycle use in Italy . It is also known as "" City of Music "" thanks to the bond with Gioacchino Rossini , the famous ___MASK93___ born in Pesaro . For this reason , in 2015 , the Italian Government officially ___MASK91___ Pesaro as " Creative City " in the group of World Heritage Sites of UNESCO . Maximian ( c . 250  c . July 310 ) was Roman ___MASK50___ from 286 to 305 . He was " Caesar " from 285 to 286 , then " Augustus " from 286 to 305 . He shared the latter title with his co - ___MASK50___ and superior , Diocletian , whose political brain complemented Maximian ' s military brawn . Maximian established his residence at Trier but spent most of his time on campaign . In the late summer of 285 , he suppressed rebels in Gaul known as the Bagaudae . From 285 to 288 , he fought against Germanic tribes along the Rhine frontier . Together with Diocletian , he launched a scorched earth campaign deep into Alamannic territory in 288 , temporarily relieving the Rhine provinces from the threat of Germanic invasion . The Via Flaminia was an ancient Roman road leading from Rome over the Apennine Mountains to " Ariminum " ( Rimini ) on the coast of the Adriatic Sea , and due to the ruggedness of the mountains was the ___MASK28___ option the Romans had for ___MASK27___ between Etruria , Latium and Campania and the Po Valley . Today the same route , still called by the same name for much of its distance , is paralleled or overlain by Strada Statale ( SS ) 3 , also called Strada Regionale ( SR ) 3 in Lazio and Umbria , and Strada Provinciale ( SP ) 3 in Marche . It leaves Rome , goes up the Val Tevere (" Valley of the Tiber River "), strikes into the mountains at Castello delle Formiche , ascends to Gualdo Tadino , goes over the divide at Scheggia Pass , , to Cagli . From there it descends the eastern slope waterways between the Tuscan - Emilian Apennines and the Umbrian Apennines to Fano on the coast and goes north parallel to Highway A1 to Rimini . Pope Sylvester I ( died 31 December 335 ), whose name is also spelled " Silvester ", was pope from 31 January , 314 to his death in 335 . He succeeded Pope Miltiades . He filled the See of Rome at an important era in the history of the Catholic Church , yet very little is known of him . The accounts of his papacy preserved in the " Liber Pontificalis " ( seventh or eighth century ) contain little more than a record of the gifts said to have been conferred on the Church by Constantine I , although it does say that he was the son of a Roman named " Rufinus ". His feast is jubilantly celebrated as ___MASK41___ Sylvester ' s Day among the Western Christian Churches on December 31 , while Eastern Christian Churches commemorate it on January 2 . The Liber Pontificalis ( Latin for ' pontifical ___MASK63___ ' or " ___MASK63___ of the Popes ") is a ___MASK63___ of biographies of popes from ___MASK41___ Peter until the 15th century . The original publication of the " Liber Pontificalis " stopped with Pope Adrian II ( 867  872 ) or Pope Stephen V ( 885  891 ), but it was later supplemented in a different style until Pope Eugene IV ( 1431  1447 ) and then Pope Pius II ( 1458  1464 ). Although quoted virtually uncritically from the 8th to 18th century , the " Liber Pontificalis " has undergone intense modern scholarly scrutiny . The work of the French ___MASK80___ Louis Duchesne ( who compiled the major scholarly edition ), and of others has highlighted some of the underlying redactional motivations of different sections , though such interests are so disparate and varied as to render improbable one popularizer ' s claim that it is an " unofficial instrument of pontifical propaganda ." The Roman ___MASK50___ was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period ( starting in 27 BC ). The emperors used a variety of different titles throughout history . Often when a given Roman is described as becoming " ___MASK50___ " in English , it reflects his taking of the title " Augustus " or " Caesar ". Another title often used was " imperator ", originally a military honorific . Early Emperors also used the title " princeps " ( first citizen ). Emperors frequently amassed republican titles , notably " Princeps Senatus ", " Consul " and " Pontifex Maximus ". Paternian or Paternianus ( Italian : San Paterniano ) is the name of an Italian ___MASK41___ . There are two figures , Paternian of Bologna and Paternian of Fermo , who are considered to be the same person . The first was bishop of Bologna from around 450 to 470 . The second was a native of Fermo who escaped to the mountains during the persecutions of Christians by Diocletian . He then became bishop of Fano after being appointed to this position by Pope Sylvester I . Historical details about Paternian are scarce . The Vita Sancti Paterniani can be found in a codex of the 12th century , though it dates earlier , and was written by a monk of the 10th or 11th century . But it is legendary and not very reliable . According to an ancient tradition , Paterniano was born at Fano around 275 AD . An angel told him in a vision to escape this city and hide out in a deserted place near the Metauro River . He became a hermit and the abbot of a monastery . Later , when the persecution of Christians stopped , the citizens of Fano demanded that he become their bishop . Paternian governed the city for many years . He died on November 13 , around 360 AD . Miracles were reported at his tomb and his cult spread rapidly . Pope Miltiades , or Melchiades ( died 10 January 314 ), was ___MASK13___ of Rome from 2 July 311 to his death in 314 . The Province of Pesaro and Urbino is a province in the Marche region of Italy . Its capital is the city of Pesaro . It also borders the state of San Marino . The province is surrounded by San Marino and Emilia Romagna in the north , Umbria and Tuscany in the west , Ancona in the south and the Adriatic Sea on the east . The province is also known as " Riviera of Hills ". It is mostly covered by hills and is popular for its beaches . The Ceramics museum and the Biblioteca Oliveriana are located in the capital city . The County Council is based in Pesaro while the headquarters of the provincial administration are in Urbino . The coat of arms of the province consists of a shield divided into two parts , each part is given the coat of arms of the two capitals . It has a robust economy with low ___MASK53___ , based on craft and small and medium industries , agriculture , tourism , resorts and cultural center . It has a very low per capita energy consumption . The art and craft industry contributes to 22 % of the province ' s GDP . Tourism in the province plays a primary role in the local economy , the main attractions are the sea and the Apennines . The beaches of Gabicce Mare , Pesaro , Fano and Marotta are the most famous ones . The Catholic Church , also known as the Roman Catholic Church , is the largest Christian church , with more than 1 . 27 billion members worldwide . As one of the oldest ___MASK98___ institutions in the world , it has played a prominent role in the history of Western civilisation . Headed by the Bishop of Rome , known as the pope , its doctrines are summarised in the Nicene Creed . The Catholic Church is notable within Western Christianity for its sacred tradition and seven sacraments .