For the EU constituency, see Southern Italy (European Parliament constituency). For the statistical regions of the EU, see South Italy.
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Place in Italy
Southern Italy
Italia meridionale(Italian) Sud Italia(Italian) Mezzogiorno(Italian)
Country
Italy
Regions
List
Abruzzo
Apulia
Basilicata
Calabria
Campania
Molise
Sardinia
Sicily
Area
• Total
123,024 km2 (47,500 sq mi)
Population
[1]
• Estimate
(2019)
20,637,360
Languages
– Official language
Italian
– Official linguistic minorities[2]
Arbëresh
Catalan
Calabrian Greek
Franco-Provençal
Griko dialect
Occitan
Sardinian
Serbo-Croatian
– Regional languages
Corsican
Neapolitan
Sicilian
Southern Italy (Italian: Sud Italia, Italian:[ˈsudiˈtaːlja], or Italia meridionale, Italian:[iˈtaːljameridjoˈnaːle]; Neapolitan: 'o Sudde; Sicilian: Italia dû Suddi), also known as Meridione (Italian:[meriˈdjoːne]) or Mezzogiorno (Italian:[ˌmɛddzoˈdʒorno]; Neapolitan: Miezojuorno; Sicilian: Menzujornu; lit.'Midday'), is a macroregion of Italy consisting of its southern regions.
The term "Mezzogiorno" today refers to the regions that are associated with the people, lands or culture of the historical and cultural region that was once politically under the administration of the former Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily (officially denominated as one entity Regnum Siciliae citra Pharum and ultra Pharum, i.e. "Kingdom of Sicily on the other side of the Strait" and "across the Strait") and which later shared a common organization into Italy's largest pre-unitarian state, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
The island of Sardinia, which had neither been part of this region nor of the aforementioned polity and had been under the rule of the Alpine House of Savoy that would eventually annex the Bourbon-led and southern Italian kingdom altogether, is nonetheless often subsumed into the Mezzogiorno.[9][10] The Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) employs the term "south Italy" (Italia meridionale, or just Sud "South") to identify one of the five statistical regions in its reportings without Sicily and Sardinia, which form a distinct statistical region denominated "Insular Italy" (Italia insulare, or simply Isole "Islands").[11] These same subdivisions are at the bottom of the Italian First level NUTS of the European Union and the Italian constituencies for the European Parliament.
^"Statistiche demografiche ISTAT". www.demo.istat.it. Archived from the original on 17 December 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
^"Legge 482". Webcitation.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^«Con questa denominazione si indica lo Stato costituito nel dic. 1816 con l’unificazione dei regni di Napoli e di Sicilia, che restaurava l’autorità borbonica su tutta l’Italia meridionale; fu mantenuta fino all’ott. 1860, quando, tramite plebiscito, fu votata l’annessione al regno di Sardegna.» "Regno delle Due Sicilie in Dizionario di Storia". www.treccani.it.
^«Mezzogiorno, region in Italy roughly coextensive with the former Kingdom of Naples.» "Mezzogiorno". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
^«Meridionale: in part.: che fa parte delle regioni continentali e insulari del Mezzogiorno d'Italia (delimitate convenzionalmente dai fiumi Garigliano e Sangro), le quali, in età prerisorgimentale, costituivano il Regno delle due Sicilie.» Battaglia, Salvatore (1961). Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, UTET, Torino, V. X, p.160.
^«Il regno meridionale, Napoli e Sicilia con 6 milioni e 200 mila abitanti,... pare in principio per certa foga di riforme e per valori d'ingegni filosofici e riformisti gareggiare con la Lombardia austriaca.» Carducci, III-18-21, citato in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, UTET, Torino, V. X, p.160.
^Luigi Mendola. "Kingdom and House of the Two Sicilies".
^«Tra le maggiori novità del secolo ci fu proprio il ritorno all'indipendenza del regno meridionale, che riunì in un unico stato indipendente e sovrano il Mezzogiorno insulare e continentale.» Francesca Canale Cama; Daniele Casanova; Rosa Maria Delli Quadri (2017). Storia del Mediterraneo moderno e contemporaneo. Napoli: Guida Editori. p. 173.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"Il rapporto annuale Svimez sull'economia del Mezzogiorno". 2007.
^"Classificazione economica ISTAT" (PDF) (in Italian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
^"Classificazione demografica ISTAT" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
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