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„A country, where there is more sunshine in the shadow than in England under a cloudless sky!“
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Basic informationHistory EconomyReligionCulture
Basic information
• Area: 301.338 km²
• Population: 60.626.442
• Two independent states within Italian territory
Language
• Official language: Italian
• Others: French, Ladin, German, Slovenian
• Spoken by 70 million people
Who else speaks Italian?
• San Marino + Vatican City • Switzerland• France• Monaco• Slovenia• Croatia• Beyond Europe: USA, Canada, Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Venezuela
History
History
• 1870: End of Risorgimento• 1871: Rome= capital• 1876-1915: Massive wave of emigration • 1913: Highest recorded wave of emigration• Reason: poverty among rural population
and overpopulation • Main destinations: America, Belgium,
Germany, France, Switzerland
Economy• Economic bisection
• North: heavily industrialized
• South: mostly dominated by agriculture
Reasons
• Amalgamation of the 3 kingdoms
• -> strong North-South divide in terms of economic growth
• South: Dominated by Mafia
Mafia
• Cosa Nostra: Sicilia
• Camorra: Neapel
• `Ndrangheta: Calabria -> most powerful
• Organized crime ->Goal: material profit
• Seek of power (racketeering+illegal drug market)
Roberto Saviano
• Gomorrah, journey into the realm of the Camorra
• Practices of organized crimes
How does the economic crisis affects Italy?
• 1000 companies give up business
• 3/5 companies need to take out a loan to pay taxes
• Insolvency rate: 5.7% -> 9.5%
• Decline of industrial production of 7%
• 818.000 workplaces destroyed
• More than 1/3 of young people unemployed
European Union
• Founding member
• Before crisis: Pro- European
• After crisis: Increase of mistrust
Religion
• Catholic-orientated
• Especially Islam: getting more and more present
Franziskus I.: New hope?
Described as:
• Easy and moderate
• Touch of internationality
• Opening of the church
• Critized because of his conservative stance
Family
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Piazza
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600 varieties
28 kg per year
VESPA
• 1946• Simple
means of transport
• Timeless design
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Famous people
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Galileo Galilei
• Michelangelo
• Christopher Columbus
• Luciano Pavarotti
• Giuseppe Verdi
• Antonio Vivaldi
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ROME
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VENICE
Thank-you for listening! Grazie
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Sources
• http://italien.costasur.com/de/kultur.html
• http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/euro-krise-italiens-wirtschaft-kaempft-ums-ueberleben-1.1624737
• http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/europaheute/1884521/
• http://europa.eu/about-eu/countries/member-countries/italy/index_de.htm
• http://www.bautz.de/bautzbautz/index.php?option=com_content&id=241:religionen-in-italien&Itemid=62
• http://www.grammatiken.de/italienische-grammatik/italienisch-sprache-sprachgeschichte-romanische-sprache.php
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