1. Italy
Created by: Princess Kedrick Clayton, Prince Bryan Goodman, Queen Paige Elizabeth, Servi-Jay, Servi-Stopes, Arianna Bonosconi, Eden Richards, Tiarra Katoa

2. Country Size Comparison Chart
Compared to neighboring countries

3. Interesting Land and Water features
Sunset bathes the Basilica di Santa Maria Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Dino Island in the Mediterranean
della Salute in Venice, Italy Florence Italy
The Coliseum in Rome, Italy The LDS temple in Rome Italy St. Peters Basilica a Cathedral

4. Weather

5. Natural Resources
Earthly:
Italy has few natural resources. There are no substantial deposits of iron, coal, or oil. Proven natural gas reserves, mainly in the Po Valley and offshore Adriatic, have grown in recent years and constitute the country’s most important mineral resource. But the resources that Italy does have are coal, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorspar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur), natural gas and crude oil reserves, fish, and arable land.

6. Italian wars
the italian wars were a lot of conflicts from to 1559 that involved all the major states in western Europe. one of the war was
called ceresole and was italy vs. spain and france

7. italian events
In 1908 an Earthquake kills 200,000 people in messina italy

8. When did italy for as a country or gain independence?
Foreigners continued to dominate in the 1500’s. France and Spain engaged in an unending war for control. Spain won and heavily taxed the Italians. The economy deteriorated. Laws began to favor the North elite and oppress the masses. The Italian initiative did not exist due to taxing by the ruler, landowner, and the overseer. Finally about 346 years later italy was finally a whole country. They officially gained dependence on March 17, 1861.

9. Recent event
Royal Mail has warned MPs that job losses are likely after its historic privatisation as the industry continues to modernise.

10. Recent Event
European Commission pushes for Mediterranean-wide search and rescue sea patrols in the aftermath of the Lampedusa shipwreck.

11. Pop culture, Music , Art, Dating, Etc.
If you want some romantic Italian music I would recommend going and listening to Santa Lucia. Great song it is. For dating they like to take walks watch movies and share hobbies.

12. Government A New cabinet was sworn on April 28, 2013
and Mr. Fabrizio Saccomanni has been appointed Minister of Economy and Finance.
Mr. Saccomanni has also become EIB Governor for the Italian Republic.

13. Allies and Enemies
Italy’s allies were Russian Empire, France British Empire, United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
Their Enemy was Germany
(I used WW1 to find the allies and enemies of Italy)

14. Ethnic Composition
Italian (includes small clusters of German, French,and Slovene Italians in the North and Albanian Italians and Greek Italians in the South)

15. Primary Languages
Italian (official) German (Parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region) French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d’Aosta region) Slovene (some in the Trieste-Gorizia area)

16. Literacy Rate!

17. Population Comparison

18. Life expectancy for females

19. Major Imports Germany, China, France, and Netherlands 1. Chemicals
(so no longer Libya, and i know this is from 2009 but i just wanted to show it)
1. Chemicals
2. Energy products
3. Textiles and clothing
4. Food and beverage
5. Tobacco
6. minerals and nonferrous material

20. Italy’s Economy