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| | Italy, Rome, Milan, Turin, Venice, Naples, Cagliari, Brescia, Vicenza, Genova, Bari, Bologna, Palermo, Catania, Ancona, ... |
 | | Italy (Italian Italia), republic in southern Europe, bounded on the north by Switzerland and Austria; on the east by Slovenia and the Adriatic Sea; on the south by the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea; on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ligurian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea; and on the northwest by France. |
 | | The Italians retreated to the Piave River; reinforced by small numbers of French and British troops, they consolidated their defenses and were able to fight off an Austrian force that attacked in June 1918. |
 | | In 1991 the Italian Communists renamed themselves the Democratic Party of the Left, downplaying their former atheism and emphasis on class conflict in favor of such issues as the environment, feminism, and the economic disparity between the country's industrial north and the poverty-ridden south. |
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