Italy
See also: Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto AdigeFrom history, most Italian cities have Latin names, some have Greek or Etruscan names.
- Akragas → Agrigentum → Girgenti → Agrigento
- Ariminum → Rimini
- Augusta Taurinorum → Turin (Torino)
- Barium → Bari
- Beneventum → Benevento
- Bergomum → Bergamo
- Brixia → Brescia
- Brundisium → Brindisi
- Carales → Cagliari
- Comum → Como
- Consentia → Cosenza
- Drepanum → Trapani
- Felsina → Bononia → Bologna
- Florentia → Florence (Firenze)
- Genua → Genoa (Genova)
- Henna → Castrogiovanni → Enna
- Kroton → Crotona → Crotone
- Lavinium → Lavinio
- Littoria → Latina
- Mediolanum → Milan (Milano)
- Messana → Messina
- Mussolinia di Sardegna → Arborea
- Mutina → Modena
- Neapolis → Napolis → Naples (Napoli)
- Olbia → Terranova Pausania → Olbia
- Panormus → Palermo
- Patavium → Padua (Padova)
- Pisae → Pisa
- Placentia → Piacenza
- Potentia → Potenza
- Rhegium → Reggio di Calabria
- Roma → Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana → Rome (Roma)
- Salernum → Salerno
- Syrakusai → Siracusa
- Taras → Tarentum → Taranto
- Vicetia → Vicenza
Read more about this topic: List Of City Name Changes
Famous quotes containing the word italy:
“Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“the San Marco Library,
Whence turbulent Italy should draw
Delight in Art whose end is peace,
In logic and in natural law
By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand ... borders upon insanity and absurdity—or at least is reminiscent of childhood.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)