The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryThrough the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them. But the result is always a mixture. The linguistic evolution of Italy parallels this development, and presented as part of the cultural history it beomes a colorful and exciting tale.--dust jacket. |
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Moreover , the tribes , which reached their maximum number of thirty - five by 242 B.C. ( from an original twenty - one ... Regions and citizens belonging to the same tribe did not even have to be situated in geographical contiguity .
Moreover , the tribes , which reached their maximum number of thirty - five by 242 B.C. ( from an original twenty - one ... Regions and citizens belonging to the same tribe did not even have to be situated in geographical contiguity .
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Other Germans , captives from among conquered tribes , were settled in Italy to provide needed agricultural labor . All these barbarians did not dangerously increase in numbers because of a high rate of infant mortality and low average ...
Other Germans , captives from among conquered tribes , were settled in Italy to provide needed agricultural labor . All these barbarians did not dangerously increase in numbers because of a high rate of infant mortality and low average ...
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ing tribes descending from Germany , which later through German vanity and a desire of the Italians to attribute their ills to an irre- sistible foreign assault rather than to internal dissolution of the state , were inflated into ...
ing tribes descending from Germany , which later through German vanity and a desire of the Italians to attribute their ills to an irre- sistible foreign assault rather than to internal dissolution of the state , were inflated into ...
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