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Italy
Italy is a peninsula and country in southern Europe, the homeland of the Roman Empire. It was a battleground for Carthage under Hannibal, and later contested by the Byzantine, Carolingian, Holy Roman and Spanish empires. Unified in the nineteenth century, it built the Italian Empire, including its invasion of Ethiopia.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Italy. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/italy
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