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Italy
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Main article: Sport in Italy
Popular sports include football, basketball (2nd national team sport since the 1950s), volleyball, waterpolo, fencing, rugby, cycling, ice hockey (mainly in Milan, Trentino-Alto Adige and Veneto), roller hockey and F1 motor racing. Winter sports are most popular in the Northern regions, with Italians competing in international games and Olympic venues. Sports are incorporated into Italian festivities like Palio (see also Palio di Siena), and the Gondola race (regatta) that takes place in Venice on the first Sunday of September. Sports venues have extended from the Gladiatorial games of Ancient Rome in the Colosseum to the Stadio Olimpico of contemporary Rome, where football clubs compete. The most popular sport in Italy is football, the Serie A being one of the most famous competitions in the world. Italy's national football team is the second most winning team in the world (with four world championships won, the first one of whose in 1934) and the actual FIFA world champion.
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Notes
1 According to Mitrica, an October 2005 Romanian report estimates that 1,061,400 Romanians are living in Italy, constituting 37.2% of 2.8 million immigrants in that country [23] but it is unclear how the estimate was made, and therefore whether it should be taken seriously.
2 See also (in Italian): L. Lepschy e G. Lepschy, La lingua italiana: storia, varietà d'uso, grammatica, Milano, Bompiani
3 Official French maps show the border detouring south of the main summit, and claim the highest point in Italy is Mont Blanc de Courmayeur (4,748 m), but these are inconsistent with an 1861 convention and topographic watershed analysis.
References
- ^ Quality-of-life Survey, The Economist
- ^ OLD, p. 974: "first syll. naturally short (cf. Quint.Inst.1.5.18), and so scanned in Lucil.825, but in dactylic verse lengthened metri gratia."
- ^ Mallory, J.P. and D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. London: Fitzroy and Dearborn, 1997: p. 24
- ^ Guillotining, M., History of Earliest Italy, trans. Ryle, M & Soper, K. in Jerome Lectures, Seventeenth Series, p.50
- ^ Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers 2001, ch. 2. ISBN 0306464632.
- ^ Luca Cerchiai, Lorena Jannelli, Fausto Longo, Lorena Janelli, 2004. The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily (Getty Trust) ISBN 0-89236-751-2
- ^ T. J. Dunbabin, 1948. The Western Greeks
- ^ A. G. Woodhead, 1962. The Greeks in the West
- ^ Stéphane Barry and Norbert Gualde, "The Biggest Epidemics of History" (La plus grande épidémie de l'histoire, in L'Histoire n°310, June 2006, pp.45–46
- ^ (Smith, Dennis Mack (1997). Modern Italy; A Political History. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472108956, pp. 15.)
- ^ (Bosworth (2005), pp. 49.)
- ^ (Italian) Italia 1946: le donne al voto, dossier a cura di Mariachiara Fugazza e Silvia Cassamagnaghi
- ^ "Italian soldiers leave for Lebanon Il Corriere della Sera, 30 August 2006
- ^ The fifteen major spenders in 2006. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Website.
- ^ United States Institute of Peace. Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (PDF).
- ^ demo.istat.it/str2006/index.html.
- ^ www.birn.eu.com/en/111/15/5745/.
- ^ demo.istat.it/str2006/index.html.
- ^ news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7078532.stm.
- ^ Index of Economic Freedom
- ^ International Tourism Receipts (PDF). UNWTO Tourism Highlights, Edition 2005 12. World Tourism Organization. Retrieved on 2006-05-24.
- ^ All Nobel Laureates in Literature.
- ^ Mitrica, Mihai Un milion de romani s-au mutat in Italia ("One million Romanians have moved to Italy"). Evenimentul Zilei, October 31, 2005. Visited April 11, 2006.
- Other references can be found in the more detailed articles linked to in this article.
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