Mules were used in North Africa, Burma, and in Italy.

It comprised most of northern and central Italy, but excluded the Republic of Venice.

History Antiquity Padua claims to be the oldest city in northern Italy.

When Italy surrendered in 1943, German forces occupied most of Northern Italy until 1945.

Differently from other cities of northern Italy, Ancona never became a seignory.

Of Northern Italy traveling around with his somnambulist named Cesare.

In 774, Charlemagne captured the city and ended the existence of the Lombard kingdom in northern Italy.

Milan Cathedral ( ) is the cathedral church of Milan, Italy.

Monte Cimone is the highest mountain in the northern Apennines, of Italy.

Subsequently the Parliament declared the creation of the Kingdom of Italy on February 18, 1861 (officially proclaiming it on March 17, 1861) composed of both Northern Italy and Southern Italy.

All these buildings are in northern Italy (Langobardia major), but by far the best preserved Lombard structure is in southern Italy (Langobardia minor).

Italian rule Annexed to Italy during 1866, Padua was at the centre of the poorest area of Northern Italy, as Veneto was until the 1960s.

In the summer of 569, the Lombards conquered the main Roman centre of northern Italy, Milan.

Malta is in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea directly south of Italy and north of Libya.

Varese Lake () is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, in the north of Italy.

Menelik had signed the Treaty of Wichale with Italy in May 1889 in which Italy would recognize Ethiopia's sovereignty so long as Italy could control an area north of Ethiopia (part of modern Eritrea).

Italy! Italy! Italy!

It took place near the town of Magenta in northern Italy on 4 June 1859.

Origins Background Northern and Central Italy in the Late Middle Ages By the Late Middle Ages ( circa 1300 onward ), Latium, the heartland of the Roman Empire, and southern Italy, was poorer than the north.

The city is also a key node for the national road network, being served by all the major highways of Northern Italy.

San Vendemiano is a municipality in the province of Treviso, northern Italy, from Treviso.

There are about 22 gurdwaras across the country the oldest one being in Reggio Emilia in northern Italy where many members of the community are engaged in agricultural work.

The stronghold of Euin's territory was the Roman city of Tridentum in the upper valley of the Adige, in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, where the duchy formed one of the marches of the Lombard Kingdom of Italy.

The International Journalism Festival is a journalism event annually held in Perugia, Italy (in central Italy, about 100 miles, or 160 km, north of Rome).

Difference from northern Europe Between the 12th and 13th centuries, Italy was vastly different from feudal Europe north of the Alps.

Communes During the 11th century in northern Italy a new political and social structure emerged the city state or commune.

It was developed to meet a NATO specification, but Italy was initially the only NATO member to adopt the type.

Italy was the most urbanized region of Europe, but three quarters of the people were still rural peasants.

Red onion of Tropea The red onion from Tropea, Italy, (Italian Cipolla Rossa di Tropea ) is a particular variety of red onion which grows in a small area of Calabria in southern Italy named Capo Vaticano near the city of Tropea.

Emigration from the region's depressed areas to northern Italy and the rest of Europe was very intense in the years between 1956 and 1971.

There were serious famines in the late 1640s and less severe ones in the 1670s throughout northern Italy.

Spanish F A 18s participated in the Bosnian War and the Kosovo War under NATO command, based in Aviano, Italy.

Early Italian city states The first Italian city states appeared in northern Italy as a result of a struggle to gain independence from the German Holy Roman Empire.

Background When Italy declared war on 10 June 1940, the Italian troops were not prepared for a prolonged war in North Africa or East Africa.

In contrast Northern and Central Italy had become far more prosperous, with the City States among the wealthiest in Europe.

Most devastating, though, was the Black Death that decimated the populations of the densely populated cities of Northern Italy and returned at intervals thereafter.

The Tuscan culture soon became the model for all the states of Northern Italy, and the Tuscan variety of Italian came to predominate throughout the region, especially in literature.

Classic feudalism had never been prominent in Northern Italy, and most peasants worked on private farms or as sharecroppers.

The bulk of claims for the subsidy come from northern Italy, which is usually considered less prone to tax evasion to begin with.

It uses this power to blackmail the government into introducing measures which discriminate between citizens of Italy s north and south.

Cremona quickly grew into one of the largest towns in northern Italy, as it was on the main road connecting Genoa to Aquileia, the Via Postumia.

The Peace of Lodi, concluded in 1454, brought forty years of comparative peace to Northern Italy, as Venetian conflicts focussed elsewhere.

The Battle of Novara was a battle of the War of the League of Cambrai fought on June 6, 1513, near Novara, in Northern Italy.

He fought in the Imperial armies against the Turks and in the Hussite Wars in Bohemia, and was awarded the dukedom of Treviso in Northern Italy in 1422.

The Tagliamento is a braided river in north east Italy, flowing from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea at a point between Trieste and Venice.