1935 pictorial map of Italy - by Ernest Dudley Chase

1953 pictorial map of Etna, Sicily

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‘If you look at the area now, catania swallowed all the neighbouring towns from industrial and housing sprawl, amazing’–jakalanski

Pirî Reis 1525 map of Venice

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‘His map of the New World is excellent. He just drew it in 1513. It is a subject of lots of Conspiracy theories and alternative history’–midlleeastcelts

Central Mediterranean, Italy and Sicily circa 1485

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Kingdom of Sardinia 16th century map

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’“Diese Rammen seind vast unbekannt/ unnd werden allein in Sardinia gefunden: So aber jemand sie will wissen/ der besehe die Tafel Ptolemei” - These rams are nearly unknown and can only be found in Sardinia. If you want to know about them you should look at the boards (tabula) of Ptolemei. The Sardinian rams are descriped by Ptolemy, but I am not sure if this text is thinking about the rams used on ships or the animal’–Boron20

Italy 1799

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Italian river basins

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‘Non vengo dall’Italia, quindi scusate il mio italiano di Google. Questo è un bel lavoro, grazie per averlo condiviso. Studio geografia e questo genere di cose mi affascina. Bello!‘–shagginwaggon66

Exaggerated relief map of Italy

5000 x 5000

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‘Well that’s a relief……..’–the_normal_person

First Cousin Marriages in Italy, by percentage, 1930-1964

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“Oh God I’m 100 percent Sicilian”–sjpicci

1738 map of southern Italy - by Nicolas de Fer

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Main Language Groups in Iron Age Italy, 6th century BC

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“Because while Umbrian was its own language, it didn’t have its own alphabet, so when writing stuff down, they would use either a slightly modified version of the Etruscan or (later) the Latin alphabet, which we can decipher today, even though we might not know all the vocabulary”–Raffmonster