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Definition of Capital of Italy
1. Noun. Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
Geographical relationships: Lustrum, Catacomb, Circus, Pantheon, Toga Virilis, Bacchus, Augur, Auspex, Centurion, Gladiator, Pontifex, Procurator, Sibyl, Tribune, Roman, Romanic
Terms within: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Colosseum, Sistine Chapel, Seven Hills Of Rome, Lateran, Holy See, State Of The Vatican City, The Holy See
Generic synonyms: National Capital
Group relationships: Italia, Italian Republic, Italy
Member holonyms: Roman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capital Of Italy
Literary usage of Capital of Italy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Famous Orations. by Francis Whiting Halsey, William Jennings Bryan (1906)
"ROME should be the capital of Italy. Without the acceptance of this premise by Italy
... Because without Rome as the capital of Italy, Italy can not exist. ..."
2. The History of Nations by Henry Cabot Lodge (1906)
"Chapter XLIX ROME BECOMES THE capital of Italy. 1867-1871 NO sooner was the
Venetian question finally settled by the annexation of the whole territory to ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"And this is in reality the sentiment which gives its chief intensity to the cry
of " Rome for the capital of Italy!" All these ancient rivals and enemies ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"Even if fettered by the necessity of acting through Piedmont, they would have
demanded Rome as the capital of Italy, and the immediate expulsion of the pope ..."
5. Italy, Including Merivale's Rome, 44 B. C.-476 A. D. by Charles Merivale (1906)
"Chapter XLIX ROME BECOMES THE capital of Italy. 1867-1871 NO sooner was the
Venetian question finally settled by the annexation of the whole territory to ..."
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