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:
“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)
“Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Uncle Matthew’s four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. “Frogs,” he would say, “are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.””
—Nancy Mitford (1904–1973)