Lazio
The Latium ( Lazio Italian ) is a region in central Italy, with 5,557,276 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2012). Most important town in Lazio, the Italian capital of Rome.
Location
In ancient times, was understood by Lazio only the roughly rectangular area between the Tiber, Sabina, Sinuessa (today Mondragone ) and Tyrrhenian Sea.
Today's Lazio is located about halfway up the " Italian boot " on its western coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, which is a part of the Mediterranean. The northernmost town is Acquapendente, the southernmost Gaeta. In the countryside Latium (in order from north to south) surrounded by Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Abruzzo, Molise and Campania regions.
Geography
The geology of the Lazio from three landscape types.
- The limestone mountains of Abruzzo to the east of Lazio goes into the same region. It occupies a large part of the province of Rieti. Inside is the highest mountain in Latium, the 2,458 -meter-high, scoring the Monti della Laga Monte Gorzano. Upstream of this are the Sabine Mountains, the Lucretili, the Monti Ernici and the Monti della Meta. In general, the axis of the mountain range runs in a northwest-southeast direction. This also applies for the nearby mountain ranges of the south-east of Rome Monti Lepini, the Ausoni and Aurunci. Geologically, including the single mountains, Monte Soratte in the Tiber valley and the Monte Circeo on the coast, to the limestone mountains.
- In contrast, the hills in the northwest of Tuscia is dominated by tuff, a rock, the volcanic origin and is predominantly composed of solidified volcanic ash. Often, the deeply incised canyons Tuff has produced. Out of it the Monti Volsini project on Lake Bolsena, the Cimini mountains around the Lake Vico and the Monti Sabatini around Lake Bracciano. They are weathered calderas of extinct volcanoes, as well as the Albanian mountains east of Rome. This mountain range, the two crater lakes Lake Albano and Lake Nemi.
- The planes make up a smaller part of Lazio. These are the Maremma laziale, which runs from Tuscany to the Tolfabergen, the mouth of the Tiber, south-west of Rome and Pontine plane whose marshes were drained only in the 1930s. Your are offshore of the Pontine Islands.
Most rivers - so the Tiber with its tributary, the Aniene, the Marta and the Garigliano with its tributary rivers Liri and Sacco - flow into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Only the originating within the Monti della Laga Tronto flows into the Adriatic Sea.
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History
In the 6th century BC the Latins settled in Latium. In the Second Latinerkrieg 340-338 BC Rome subjugated it and the area became the core of the Roman Empire. After his demise the Latium belonged to 493 of the Italian Kingdom of Odoacer, 536 it was conquered from the Eastern Roman Empire. 755 was the region as a fief of the King of the Franks to the Pope, it became the core area of the church to form incipient state. In the division of the Frankish Empire in 843 it fell to the Kingdom of Italy, but soon gained complete independence again. During the Italian campaign of Napoleon the Papal State was occupied by French troops and Lazio received a republican government modeled on the Board of the French Revolution. But already in 1799 made the first Napoleonic war the Republic to an end. 1801 was then brought to relent, now restored the Papal States, Pope Pius VII, Napoleon. However, because of the refusal of the Pope, to participate in an alliance against France, it already occupied 1807/1808, French troops again and 1809 he was declared by Napoleon for annexation. At the Vienna Congress in 1815 but it was decided his recovery. 1860 Umbria and Marche, from a political, economic and military insecurity joined the newly formed Kingdom of Italy. In 1870 the now limited to the Latium Papal States was the Italian nation-state incorporated. Since 1947, the Lazio Region is an administrative unit.
Administrative divisions
Lazio consists of the following five provinces:
In the region there are the following cities and larger communities.
Stand: 31 March 2008 Source: ISTAT
Economy
Expressed in comparison with the GDP of the European Union in purchasing power standards reached the Lazio region 2006 an index of 123.2 (EU-27 = 100).
Tourism
In addition to Rome are considered touristy especially appealing the Alban Hills, the different-sized volcanic lakes, of which Lake Bracciano and Bolsena in the triangle Tuscany / Umbria / Lazio are the largest, as well as the southern Lazio, here in particular, for example, the monastery Monte Cassino, which was completely destroyed in World War II, but then rebuilt.