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© Lonely Planet Publications 32 History Few countries h e been on such a roller-coaster ride as Italy. The Italian peninsula lay at the core of the Roman Empire; one of the world’s great monotheistic religions, Catholicism, has its headquarters in Rome; and it was largely the dynamic city-states of Italy that set the modern era in motion with the Renaissance. Bu aly has known chaos and deep suffering, too. The ri f Europe’s nation-states from the 16 entury left the divided Italian peninsula behind. Italian unity was won in blood, but many Italians h e since lived in abject poverty, sparking great w es of migration. The economic miracle of the 1960s propelled Italy to the top league of wealthy Western countries but since the 1990s the country has wallowed in a mire of frustration. A sluggish economy, ineffective and squabbling ernment, widespread corruption and the continuing open sore of the Mafia continue to overshadow the country’s otherwise sunny disposition. A wide-ranging general THE ETRUSCANS, GREEKS MYTH site on Italian history is Of the many tribes that emerged from the millennia of the Stone Ages in an-cien aly, the Etruscans inated the peninsula by the 7 entury BC. ItalyHistory/ItalyHistory Etruria was based on city-states mostly concentrated between the Arno and Tiber .html. It covers in potted rivers. Among them were Caere (modern-day Cerveteri), Tar ii form everything from (Tar ia), Veii (Veio), Perusia (Perugia), Volaterrae (Vo rra) and Arret