Southern Italy (Italian: Sud Italia; Neapolitan: 'o Sudde; Sicilian:
Italia dû Sud) or Mezzogiorno (Italian pronunciation:
[ËŒmÉ›ddzoˈdÊ'orno], literally "Midday" or "Noon"; in Neapolitan: 'o
Miezojuorno; in Sicilian: Mezzujornu) is a macroregion of Italy meant
to broadly denote the southern half of the Italian state.Southern
Italy covers the historical and cultural region that was once
politically under the administration of the former Kingdoms of Naples
and Sicily (officially denominated Regnum Siciliae citra Pharum and
ultra Pharum, that is "Kingdom of Sicily on the other side of the
Strait" and "across the Strait"), and which later shared a common
organization into Italy's largest pre-unitarian state, the Kingdom of
the two Sicilies. The island of Sardinia had a different history from
the aforementioned region, but is nonetheless often subsumed into the
Mezzogiorno.The Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)
employs the term "South Italy" (Italia meridionale or also just Sud)
to identify one of the five statistical regions in its reportings
without Sicily and Sardinia, which form a distinct statistical region
denominated "Insular Italy" (Italia insulare or simply Isole). These
same subdivisions are at the bottom of the Italian First level NUTS of
the European Union and the Italian constituencies for the European
Parliament.In a similar fashion to France's Midi ("midday" or "noon"
in French), the Italian term Mezzogiorno refers to the intensity and
the position of sunshine at midday in the South of the Italian
peninsula. The term later came into vogue after the annexation of the
Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, together with the other Italian
states, and the subsequent Italian unification of 1861.
Italia dû Sud) or Mezzogiorno (Italian pronunciation:
[ËŒmÉ›ddzoˈdÊ'orno], literally "Midday" or "Noon"; in Neapolitan: 'o
Miezojuorno; in Sicilian: Mezzujornu) is a macroregion of Italy meant
to broadly denote the southern half of the Italian state.Southern
Italy covers the historical and cultural region that was once
politically under the administration of the former Kingdoms of Naples
and Sicily (officially denominated Regnum Siciliae citra Pharum and
ultra Pharum, that is "Kingdom of Sicily on the other side of the
Strait" and "across the Strait"), and which later shared a common
organization into Italy's largest pre-unitarian state, the Kingdom of
the two Sicilies. The island of Sardinia had a different history from
the aforementioned region, but is nonetheless often subsumed into the
Mezzogiorno.The Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)
employs the term "South Italy" (Italia meridionale or also just Sud)
to identify one of the five statistical regions in its reportings
without Sicily and Sardinia, which form a distinct statistical region
denominated "Insular Italy" (Italia insulare or simply Isole). These
same subdivisions are at the bottom of the Italian First level NUTS of
the European Union and the Italian constituencies for the European
Parliament.In a similar fashion to France's Midi ("midday" or "noon"
in French), the Italian term Mezzogiorno refers to the intensity and
the position of sunshine at midday in the South of the Italian
peninsula. The term later came into vogue after the annexation of the
Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, together with the other Italian
states, and the subsequent Italian unification of 1861.
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