Lexic.us

Definition of Italian Peninsula

1. Noun. A boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Italian Peninsula

Literary usage of Italian Peninsula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"The Italian peninsula had been settled by Rome at a very early date. There had been more roads and more towns and more schools than anywhere else in Europe. ..."

2. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1903)
"... and they run through the whole length of the country to the very toe of the boot, as the Italian peninsula has been called from its shape. ..."

3. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"once seen that the Italian peninsula, though so long CHAP. and narrow, is by no means cut up into promontories and smaller peninsulas in the way that the ..."

4. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"They carried their raiding right down the Italian peninsula, devas- tating all Etruria. They took and sacked Rome (390 B. ..."

5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"tended her conquests over the Italian peninsula, each new city added to her growing empire was connected with the capital by a magnificent military road, ..."

6. Italy by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Wilfred C. Lay (1882)
"TO 498 BC The Italian Peninsula—Uncertain History—Legend of Troy—The Flight ... the Consuls—Insurrection of the Commons THE Italian peninsula extends from ..."

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