19 Facts About Italians

Italians are the citizens and nationals of Italy and the primarily Romance-speaking ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region and its neighboring insular territories.

Italians have influenced and contributed to fields like arts and music, science, technology, fashion, cinema, cuisine, restaurants, sports, jurisprudence, banking and business.

The adjective italianus, from which are derived the Italian name of the Italians, is medieval and was used alternatively with Italicus during the early modern period.

Italians's defeat marked the end of the Western Roman Empire, and the end of the political unification of Italy until the establishment of the modern Kingdom of Italy in 1861.

Many Italians began to see the possibility of a united Italy free of foreign control.

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Italians chose a republic to replace the monarchy, which had been closely associated with Fascism.

Italians believed that there was no contradiction between faith and secular reason.

Italians believed that Aristotle had achieved the pinnacle in the human striving for truth and thus adopted Aristotle's philosophy as a framework in constructing his theological and philosophical outlook.

Italians was a professor at the prestigious University of Paris.

Italians have been the central figures of countless inventions and discoveries and they made many predominant contributions to various fields.

Italians's achievements include the invention of the thermometer and key improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and ultimately the triumph of Copernicanism over the Ptolemaic model.

Italians introduced the sequence of Fibonacci numbers, which he used as an example in Liber Abaci.

Italians invented many of the musical instruments, including the piano and violin.

Italians are the second of the most who have won the World Cycling Championship more than any other country after Belgium.

Beach tennis with paddle racquet was invented by Italians, and is practised by many people across the country.

The mass industrialization and urbanization globally resulted in higher labor mobility and the need for Italians to stay anchored to the land for economic support declined.

Italians were more likely to migrate to countries where they had family established beforehand.

Notably, it was not as if Italians had never migrated before; internal migration between North and Southern Italy before unification was common.

Similar process happened in Malta, where the Maltese Italians have practically disappeared in the last two centuries after Britain took control of the island during Napoleon times.