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Italian Tourism: Discover Italy

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a visual tour through the sights and regions of Italy. Click on the interactive map or a photo to access detailed information from throughout the country.
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United Nations

Unesco: Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna

For Students 9th - 10th
This World Heritage website features Ravenna in Italy, which was the center of the Roman Empire at one point, and later of the Byzantine Empire in Italy. Presented on this website are eight Christian buildings, and their mosaics, from...
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Mapping History: European History

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive and animated maps and timelines of historical events and time periods in European history from Greek and Phoenician colonization up to the 20th century.
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History Blog: Family Looking for Broken Sewer Pipe Finds 2,500 Years of History

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating story about a family in Lecce, Italy, who made a major archaeological discovery while digging under their house to find the source of a problem in the pipes that led to a toilet. What they found instead was an entire...
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United Nations

Unesco: Historic Centre of Urbino

For Students 9th - 10th
This World Heritage website features Urbino, an important center for a short time during the Italian Renaissance that has been largely preserved. Found here are a description, links, maps, documentation, photos, and a video on its history.
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United Nations

Unesco: Historic Centre of Florence

For Students 9th - 10th
This World Heritage website features Florence, a focal point for the Italian Renaissance. Found here are a description, a map, documents, many photos, a video on its significance, and any indicators of threats to its preservation.
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United Nations

Unesco: Historic Centre of Naples

For Students 9th - 10th
This World Heritage website features Naples, first founded by the Greeks in 470 BC as Neopolis. Found here are a description of its long history, links, a map, documentation, photos, and any indicators of threats to its integrity.
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United Nations

Unesco: Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and Its Po Delta

For Students 9th - 10th
This World Heritage website features Ferrara, a focal point for the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries. Ferrara is known as well as the place where modern town planning began. Found here are a description, a map,...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Map of Italy

For Students 9th - 10th
A map featuring Italy and its neighboring countries.
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Museum of International Folk Art: Carnival Around the World; Venice, Italy

For Students 9th - 10th
From the exhibit "Carnaval Around the World" at the Museum of International Folk Art, we have a feature page on the celebration as it occurs in Venice, Italy. With a description, photos, map and audio clip this is a nice glimpse into...
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Italy Guides: Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to the 'Eternal City' of Rome, Italy! Although this is a commercial site, the interactive city map along with beautiful photos and links to historic areas make this informative for both students and educators.
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Italy Guides: Venice

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to the beautiful city of Venice, Italy! Although this is a commercial site, the interactive city map with its many incredible photos and links to historic sights make it a useful tool for both students and teachers to learn about...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Italy, 1914

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the Kingdom of Italy in 1914 subtitled "Made One Nation." This map shows the unification of Italy with dates and notations for annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia (the founding state, which became the Kingdom of Italy in...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Italy and San Marino, 1906

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1906 of Italy, San Marino, and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. The map shows provinces, principal cities and towns, railroads, mountains, rivers, and coastal features. An inset map details the Bay of Naples.
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Italy Divided by Augustus Into Eleven Regions, 7 Bc

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Roman Italy, or Italia in 7 BC, when, according to Pliny the Elder, Augustus Caesar divided Italia into eleven regions (regiones), Latium et Campania (I), Apulia et Calabria (II), Lucania et Brutii (III), Samnium (IV), Picenum...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Italy, 1914 1919

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1919 of Italy shortly after World War I. The map shows the 17 political divisions or Compartimenti, and the 69 provinces, and the northern boundaries at the time, including the territories of Trentino, Gorizia, Istria, and...
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Etc: Map of Ne Italy Showing the Battlefields in Franco Italian War, 1521 1598

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of northeastern Italy showing important battlefields of the Italian Wars (1495-1559) in the region. Sites include Fornovo (1495), Vicenza (1508), Agnadello (1509), Padua (1509), Modena (1510), Ravenna (1512), Marignano (1515),...
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The History Cat

The History Cat: Treaty of Versailles: Peace Returns

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes what happened at the end of World War I - the celebrations and the unnecessary final battles - as the Big Four (France, Britain, the United States, and Italy) sat down to begin negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles....
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W. W. Norton

W.w. Norton & Company: Map of the Unification of Italy (1850S to the 1870s)

For Students 9th - 10th
Map showing Italian unification. Illustrated key indicates when territory was acquired.
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Etc: Italy During the War With Naples , 1798 1799

For Students 9th - 10th
Map of Italy in 1799, subtitled "The War with Naples 1798-9." The map shows Italy at the time when the Kingdom of Naples briefly became the French-supported Parthenopaean Republic from January to June, 1799. The map shows the territory...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Italia Up to the Time of Augustus, 27 Bc

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Italy prior to the ascension of Augustus Caesar in 27 BC. The map shows the Roman territories of the peninsula south of the Alps and east of the River Varus (Var), and includes the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily, the...
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Franco Cavazzi

Roman empire.net: Roman Italy Map

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Roman-Empire.net is an interactive map of Roman Italy. Areas, Regions, Tribes, Towns, Cities, Rivers, Lakes, and Mountains can be searched for with pull-down menus.
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Virtual Uffizi Gallery: Take a Virtual Tour of the Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
See the artwork located in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. This resource brings the images to you. Just click on the room or topic and see background information and a link to the image.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Holocaust in Italy

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of the Holocaust in Italy is generally well known, but to date there has been little systematic analysis of its spatial dimensions. The objective of this case study is to examine the Holocaust in Italy from a geographical...

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