Categories: Italian history | History of Europe
The history of Italy is roughly divided into the following periods:
Roman times (8th century BC - 5th century AD)
The Middle Ages and the Renaissance (6th-15th centuries)
Italy under foreign domination and the Italian unification (16th c. - 1861.)
The Kingdom of Italy and the period of the World Wars (1861-1945)
The Italian Republic (1946-present)
