Rome | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-01

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome


00:05:08 1 Etymology
00:06:29 2 History
00:06:38 2.1 Earliest history
00:08:39 2.1.1 Legend of the founding of Rome
00:09:48 2.2 Monarchy, republic, empire
00:24:50 2.3 Middle Ages
00:32:53 2.4 Early modern
00:39:02 2.5 Late modern and contemporary
00:43:20 3 Government
00:43:29 3.1 Local government
00:44:14 3.1.1 Administrative and historical subdivisions
00:46:49 3.2 Metropolitan and regional government
00:47:42 3.3 National government
00:48:25 4 Geography
00:48:34 4.1 Location
00:50:07 4.2 Topography
00:52:23 5 Climate
00:54:38 6 Demographics
00:58:44 6.1 Ethnic groups
01:00:24 7 Religion
01:03:37 7.1 Vatican City
01:05:47 7.2 Pilgrimage
01:08:59 8 Cityscape
01:09:08 8.1 Architecture
01:09:54 8.1.1 Ancient Rome
01:10:46 8.1.2 Medieval
01:11:53 8.1.3 Renaissance and Baroque
01:13:34 8.1.4 Neoclassicism
01:14:31 8.1.5 Fascist architecture
01:17:35 8.2 Parks and gardens
01:19:48 8.3 Fountains and aqueducts
01:21:36 8.4 Statues
01:23:14 8.5 Obelisks and columns
01:24:27 8.6 Bridges
01:26:10 8.7 Catacombs
01:27:13 9 Economy
01:32:29 10 Education
01:37:36 11 Culture
01:37:45 11.1 Entertainment and performing arts
01:39:42 11.2 Tourism
01:44:59 11.3 Fashion
01:45:51 11.4 Cuisine
01:48:16 11.5 Cinema
01:50:04 11.6 Language
01:54:40 12 Sports
01:58:19 13 Transport
02:05:37 14 International entities, organisations and involvement
02:09:00 15 International relations
02:09:11 15.1 Twin towns and sister cities
02:09:51 15.2 Other relationships
02:10:04 16 Documentaries
02:10:29 17 See also



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Rome (Latin and Italian: Roma [ˈroːma] (listen)) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale). Rome also serves as the capital of the Lazio region. With  2,868,782 residents in 1,285 km2 (496.1 sq mi), it is also the country's most populated comune. It is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. It is the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome, which has a population of 4.3 million residents. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber. The Vatican City (the smallest country in the world) is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason Rome has been often defined as capital of two states.Rome's history spans 28 centuries. While Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Europe. The city's early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans, and Sabines. Eventually, the city  successively became the capital of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded as the birthplace of Western civilization and by some as the first ever metropolis. It was first called The Eternal City (Latin: Urbs Aeterna; Italian: La Città Eterna) by the Roman poet Tibullus in the 1st century BC, and the expression was also taken up by Ovid, Virgil, and Livy. Rome is also called the "Caput Mundi" (Capital of the World). After the fall of the Western Empire, which marked the beginning of the Middle Ages, Rome slowly fell under the political control of the Papacy, which had settled in the city since the 1st century AD, until in the 8th century it became the capital of the Papal States, which lasted until 1870. Beginning with the Renaissance, almost all the popes since Nicholas V (1447–1455) pursued over four hundred years a coherent architectural and urban programme aimed at making the city the artistic and cultural centre of the world. In this way, Rome became first one of the major centres of the Italian Renaissance, and then the ...