Italy is the largest religiously country both economically and politically. Italy has the fifth highest population in Europe, about 200 persons per square kilometer. Minority groups are small, the largest is the German speaking people of Bolzano Province and the Slovenes around Trieste. Although Roman Catholic is the major religion about 99 percent of the people are nominally Catholic all religious faiths are provided equal freedom before the law by the constitution.
             Greeks settled in the southern tip of the Italian Peninsula in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., Etruscans, Romans, and others inhabited the central and northern land area. The peninsula was unified under the Roman Republic. The neighboring islands also came under Roman control by the third century B.C.; by the first century A.D., the Roman Empire effectively dominated the Mediterranean world. After the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west in the fifth century A.D., the peninsula and islands were going through a series of invasions, and political unity was lost. Italy became a changing state. Popes of Rome ruled central Italy; rivalries between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors, who claimed Italy as their domain, often made the peninsula a battleground.
             Although Italy declined after the 16th century, the Renaissance had strengthened the idea of a single Italian nationality. By the early 19th century, a nationalist movement developed and led to the reunification of Italy except for Rome in the 1860s. In 1861, Victor Emmanuel II of the House of Savoy was proclaimed King of Italy. Rome was incorporated in 1870. From 1870 until 1922, Italy was a constitutional monarchy with a parliament elected under limited suffrage. Naples also had a lot of history. Naples was none to be called Napoli that's what the ancient people called Naples. Naples was conquered by Romans in the fourth century and eventually became a independent country.
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