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Hi @KimElston

My country is Italy 🇮🇹

Once entered in this discussion it won't stop there...

Let's start off by talking about the shape and it's exact location.

Italy, country of south-central Europe, occupying a peninsula that juts deep into the Mediterranean Sea. Italy comprises some of the most varied and scenic landscapes on Earth and is often described as a country shaped like a boot. At its broad top stand the Alps, which are among the world’s most rugged mountains. Italy’s highest points are along Monte Rosa, which peaks in Switzerland, and along Mont Blanc, which peaks in France. The western Alps overlook a landscape of Alpine lakes and glacier-carved valleys that stretch down to the Po River and the Piedmont. Tuscany, to the south of the cisalpine region, is perhaps the country’s best-known region. From the central Alps, running down the length of the country, radiates the tall Apennine Range, which widens near Rome to cover nearly the entire width of the Italian peninsula. South of Rome the Apennines narrow and are flanked by two wide coastal plains, one facing the Tyrrhenian Sea and the other the Adriatic Sea. Much of the lower Apennine chain is near-wilderness, hosting a wide range of species rarely seen elsewhere in western Europe, such as wild boars, wolves, asps, and bears. The southern Apennines are also tectonically unstable, with several active volcanoes, including Vesuvius, which from time to time belches ash and steam into the air above Naples and its island-strewn bay. At the bottom of the country, in the Mediterranean Sea, lie the islands of Sicily and Sardinia.

Then let's talk about the history of this beautiful country.

Italy’s political geography has been conditioned by this rugged landscape. With few direct roads between them, and with passage from one point to another traditionally difficult, Italy’s towns and cities have a history of self-sufficiency, independence, and mutual mistrust. Visitors today remark on how unlike one town is from the next, on the marked differences in cuisine and dialect, and on the many subtle divergences that make Italy seem less a single nation than a collection of culturally related points in an uncommonly pleasing setting.

Across a span of more than 3,000 years, Italian history has been marked by episodes of temporary unification and long separation, of intercommunal strife and failed empires. At peace for more than half a century now, Italy’s inhabitants enjoy a high standard of living and a highly developed culture.

Though its archaeological record stretches back tens of thousands of years, Italian history begins with the Etruscans, an ancient civilization that rose between the Arno and Tiber rivers. The Etruscans were supplanted in the 3rd century BCE by the Romans, who soon became the chief power in the Mediterranean world and whose empire stretched from India to Scotland by the 2nd century CE. That empire was rarely secure, not only because of the unwillingness of conquered peoples to stay conquered but also because of power struggles between competing Roman political factions, military leaders, families, ethnic groups, and religions. The Roman Empire fell in the 5th century CE after a succession of barbarian invasions through which Huns, Lombards, Ostrogoths, and Franks—mostly previous subjects of Rome—seized portions of Italy. Rule devolved to the level of the city-state, although the Normans succeeded in establishing a modest empire in southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century. Many of those city-states flourished during the Renaissance era, a time marked by significant intellectual, artistic, and technological advances but also by savage warfare between states loyal to the pope and those loyal to the Holy Roman Empire.

Happy reading there's a lot more but here's a good start off!

Thanks for tagging me @Diamond Lim 😊

Hi @KimElston and @Diamond Lim , nice topic, thanks for the tag.

I live in Canada but I was born in the Azores, Portugal. Canada is such a big country with lots to see and amazing people. Sometimes it is very cold here 😉 Portugal is a sunny country and the Azores is a group of very small islands in the middle of the Atlantic North. very different places, as you can see, but both amazing places to live in!

Well my country is a beautiful one amongst the African countries, the Covid 19 was dangerous here but the government found a way of solving all issues and I can boast the Covid is over, I pray and hope other countries be out of the Covid too. GHANA 🇬🇭 is my country

My country is very culturally diverse. We have over 70 ethnic groups and have over 42 tribes. Most religions are practiced in my country. We have some legendary athletes, like the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours. The phrase "hakuna matata" which means no worries originated from here.

My country is Kenya.

Hi @KimElston

I am from USA 🇺🇸 to be exact Florida. Like @Elsa said today is Election Day and it a very important election. US citizens should put out their vote no matter who they vote for. It going to be very historic election in our country. As for the Covid virus. People are getting back to normal even though it’s still spreading. Hopefully one day things will get back to normal. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Thanks for the tag @Diamond Lim. 💕

Teresa 🦋🌺🦋