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Italy, in long form the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe physically corresponding to a continental part, a peninsula located in the center of the Mediterranean Sea and an island part constituted by the two largest islands of this sea, Sicily and Sardinia, and many other smaller islands (except Corsica, French since 1769). It is attached to the rest of the continent by the Alps. The Italian territory roughly corresponds to the homonymous geographic region.
Italy makes a very important contribution to Western civilization: it is in particular the cradle of Etruscan civilization, Magna-Greece, the Roman Empire, the Holy See, maritime republics, humanism and the Renaissance. Existing as a unitary state since 1861 following the Risorgimento (Renaissance or Resurrection) led by the kingdom of Sardinia, Italy has been a republic since the abolition by referendum of the Italian monarchy in 1946. It is a founding member of the European Union and the euro area.
Italy is, at the start of the 21st century, an average power13, strong with its sixty million inhabitants, its position in 2017 as the eighth economic power in the world and the third economy in the Euro Zone, and its role within many international organizations such as the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the G7 and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
