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During the [[Renaissance]], Italy was home to many of Earth's greatest thinkers and artists, including [[Galileo Galilei]] and [[Leonardo da Vinci]]. |
During the [[Renaissance]], Italy was home to many of Earth's greatest thinkers and artists, including [[Galileo Galilei]] and [[Leonardo da Vinci]]. |
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+ | Since the [[19th century]], Italy was a nation-state whose territory encompassed the peninsula and its two major islands, [[Sicily]] and Sardinia. In the [[1920s]], the [[fascist]] ideology was developed in response to the economic and social difficulties. ({{DS9|Far Beyond the Stars}}) |
In the late 20th century, Italy joined the [[European Space Agency]]. ({{ENT|First Flight}}) |
In the late 20th century, Italy joined the [[European Space Agency]]. ({{ENT|First Flight}}) |
Revision as of 10:10, 10 June 2013
Italy was a country situated on a peninsula in the Mediterranean region of southern Europe on Earth, home of the Italian people. Italy's national flag was three vertical bands of green, white, and red. (TNG: "The Last Outpost", ENT: "First Flight")
Geography
Cities
- Florence (VOY: "Concerning Flight")
- Genoa (VOY: "Concerning Flight")
- Mantua (VOY: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy")
- Milan (TNG: "Time's Arrow, Part II")
- Rome (ENT: "Babel One"; TOS: "Bread and Circuses"; TNG: "Justice"; DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...", "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges")
- Siena (VOY: "Scientific Method")
- Venice (DS9: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"; VOY: "Prime Factors")
Hydrography
Oceans and seas : Mediterranean Sea, ...
Lakes : Lake Como, ...
Other
- Alps, a great mountain system (DS9: "Past Tense, Part I")
- Sicily, the larger island in the Mediterranean Sea (VOY: "Concerning Flight")
- Tuscany, an Italian region (VOY: "Scientific Method")
- Vulcan, a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea (VOY: "Concerning Flight")
History
Italy's largest city, Rome was the birthplace and dominant capital city of the Roman Empire in early Earth history. (TOS: "Bread and Circuses")
During the Renaissance, Italy was home to many of Earth's greatest thinkers and artists, including Galileo Galilei and Leonardo da Vinci.
Since the 19th century, Italy was a nation-state whose territory encompassed the peninsula and its two major islands, Sicily and Sardinia. In the 1920s, the fascist ideology was developed in response to the economic and social difficulties. (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")
In the late 20th century, Italy joined the European Space Agency. (ENT: "First Flight")
In 2143, while orbiting Earth in the NX-Alpha, waiting for a glitch in the propulsion system to be cleared up at Starfleet Mission Control, A.G. Robinson noted that he saw Italy pass, several times. (ENT: "First Flight")
Geordi La Forge and Leah Brahms shared a passion for Italian food. Doctor Brahms was well known for her fungilli. (TNG: "Booby Trap")
During the 2370s, Captain Kathryn Janeway often worked in holodeck programs set in Italy, usually working with a representation of Leonardo da Vinci. (VOY: "Concerning Flight")