Italian Peninsula

The handling of metal money was therefore something of a cultural specialty, particularly because the long Italian Peninsula, surrounded by commercial activities of merchants and traders, was a valuable land-and-water crossroads.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

The handling of metal money was therefore something of a cultural specialty, particularly because the long Italian Peninsula, surrounded by commercial activities of merchants and traders, was a valuable land-and-water crossroads.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

In turn, Italian had taken it from the Late Latin bancus, meaning “workbench,” a counterlike surface that could be set up by those who manned them—“bankers”—in town squares dotting the Italian Peninsula.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

In turn, Italian had taken it from the Late Latin bancus, meaning “workbench,” a counterlike surface that could be set up by those who manned them—“bankers”—in town squares dotting the Italian Peninsula.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

While the Risorgimento worked its way around the Italian Peninsula, creating a new nation, he listened to educated Germans mocking the whole enterprise.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

The French government was not interested in using its power in this way but it did want to use its influence to finally modernize the political structure of the Italian Peninsula.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

In the beckoning blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea that surround the Italian Peninsula and its islands, and which laps at the coasts of 22 countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

International Eco-Mafia and an Ecological Catastrophe in the Mediterranean Sea 2009

The political situation on the Italian Peninsula had not changed much in the decade since 1848.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

The Times of London described the pontiff as “strong in his weakness” and called for the secularization of the Italian Peninsula.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

The Thyrrenian-Adriatic Sclerophyllous and Mixed Forests extend along the coastal lowlands of the southern half of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, and Corsica.

Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests 2008