Definition of Italian peninsula

1. Noun. A boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea.

Group relationships: Italia, Italian Republic, Italy
Terms within: Republic Of San Marino, San Marino
Generic synonyms: Peninsula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Italian Peninsula

Isurus oxyrhincus
Isurus paucus
Iswa
Isy
Isère
It.
It girl
It girls
Itai-Itai disease
Itaipu Dam
Italia
Italian
Italian-Canadian
Italian-speaking
Italian Peninsula
Italian Renaissance
Italian Republic
Italian Sign Language
Italian augmented sixth chord
Italian augmented sixth chords
Italian bee
Italian bread
Italian capital
Italian clover
Italian cypress
Italian dressing
Italian flap
Italian greyhound
Italian grip

Literary usage of Italian peninsula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"The italian peninsula had been settled by Rome at a very early date. There had been more roads and more towns and more schools than anywhere else in Europe. ..."

2. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1903)
"... and they run through the whole length of the country to the very toe of the boot, as the italian peninsula has been called from its shape. ..."

3. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"once seen that the italian peninsula, though so long CHAP. and narrow, is by no means cut up into promontories and smaller peninsulas in the way that the ..."

4. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"They carried their raiding right down the italian peninsula, devas- tating all Etruria. They took and sacked Rome (390 B. ..."

5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"tended her conquests over the italian peninsula, each new city added to her growing empire was connected with the capital by a magnificent military road, ..."

6. Italy by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Wilfred C. Lay (1882)
"TO 498 BC The italian peninsula—Uncertain History—Legend of Troy—The Flight ... the Consuls—Insurrection of the Commons THE italian peninsula extends from ..."

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