Southern Italy is generally thought to comprise the administrative regions that correspond to the geopolitical extent of the historical Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, including Abruzz… 展开

Southern Italy forms the lower part of the Italian "boot", containing the ankle (Campania), the toe (Calabria), the arch (Basilicata), and the heel (Apulia), Molise (north of Apulia) … 展开

Prehistory and antiquity
In the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, for various reasons, including demographic crisis (famine, overcrowding, etc.), the search for new c… 展开

Starting from the unification of Italy in 1861–1870, a growing economic divide between the Northern provinces and the Southern half of Italy became evident. In the early decade… 展开