İtalian History and Cultures

United in 1861, İtaly has significanly contributed to the cultural and social developmend of the entire Mediteranean area, deeply influencining European culture as weell. İmportand cultures and civilizations have existed there since prehistoric times.
After Magna Graecia, the Etruscan civilization and especialy the Roman Republic and Empire that dominated this part of the world for many centuries came and İtaly whose people would make immeasurable contrubutions to the developmend of European Philosoph, Sciense, and Art duning midle ages and the Renaissance. Dominated by city-states, for much of the medieval and Renaissance period, the İtalian peninsula waseventualy unifled amids much struggle in the 19th and 20th centuries.