7.2 Visual art 7.3 Literature and theatre 7.4 Music 7.5 Cinema

y rapidly industrialized and acquired a colonial empire in Africa.[13] However, Southern and rural Italy remained largely e
3 Geography
3.1 Environment
3.2 Climate
4 Politics
4.1 Government
4.2 Law and criminal justice
4.3 Foreign relations
4.4 Military
4.5 Administrative divisions
5 Economy
5.1 Infrastructure
6 Demographics
6.1 Ethnic groups
6.2 Languages
6.3 Religion
6.4 Education
6.5 Healthcare
7 Culture
7.1 Architecture
7.2 Visual art
7.3 Literature and theatre
7.4 Music
7.5 Cinema
7.6 Science
7.7 Sport
7.8 Fashion and design
7.9 Cuisine
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
11 External links
Etymology

The assumptions on the etymology of the name "Italia" are very numerous and the corpus of the solutions proposed by historians and linguists is very wide.[24] According to one of the more common explanations, the term Italia, from Latin: Italia,[25] was borrowed through Greek from the Oscan Víteliú, meaning "land of young cattle" (cf. Lat vitulus "calf", Umb vitlo "calf").[26] The bull was a symbol of the southern Italic tribes and was often depicted goring the Roman wolf as a defiant symbol of free Italy during the Social War. Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus states this account together with the legend that Italy was named after Italus,[27] mentioned also by Aristotle[28] and Thucydides.[29]
The name Italia originally applied only to a part of what is now Southern Italy – according to Antiochus of Syracuse, the southern portion of the Bruttium peninsula (modern Calabria: province of Reggio, and part of the provinces of Catanzaro and Vibo Vaxcluded from industrialisation, fuelling a large and influentia