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*[[Beaumont Street, Newcastle]]
*[[Beaumont Street, Newcastle]]
*[[New Farm, Queensland]]
*[[New Farm, Queensland]]

===Canada===
[[File:Preston Street Ottawa.jpg|thumb|right|Little Italy in Ottawa]]
[[File:College street sign Toronto.jpeg|thumb|Sign of ''[[College Street (Toronto)|College Street]]'', centre of [[Little Italy, Toronto]]]]
*[[Chinatown and Little Italy, Edmonton|Little Italy, Edmonton]] in [[Alberta]]
*[[Little Italy, Montreal]], in [[Quebec]]
*[[Little Italy, Ottawa]], in [[Ontario]]
*[[Little Italy, Toronto]], in Ontario
*[[Little Italy, Vancouver]], in [[British Columbia]]
*[[Neighbourhoods of Windsor, Ontario#Little Italy|Little Italy, Windsor]], in Ontario
*[[Little Italy, Winnipeg]], in [[Manitoba]]


===New Zealand===
===New Zealand===
* [[Island Bay]], [[Wellington]], is often nicknamed "Little Italy"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/an-immigrant-nation-the-unbroken-thread-1994|title=An Immigrant Nation - The Unbroken Thread &#124; Television &#124; NZ On Screen|first=NZ On|last=Screen|website=www.nzonscreen.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/island-bay-amore-mio|title=Island Bay Amore Mio|website=www.maritimemuseum.co.nz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/443/the-dellabarca-family-island-bay|title=The Dellabarca family, Island Bay – Italians – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.islandbaylittleitaly.com/|title=ISLAND BAY LITTLE ITALY|website=ISLAND BAY LITTLE ITALY}}</ref>
* [[Island Bay]], [[Wellington]], is often nicknamed "Little Italy"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/an-immigrant-nation-the-unbroken-thread-1994|title=An Immigrant Nation - The Unbroken Thread &#124; Television &#124; NZ On Screen|first=NZ On|last=Screen|website=www.nzonscreen.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/island-bay-amore-mio|title=Island Bay Amore Mio|website=www.maritimemuseum.co.nz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/443/the-dellabarca-family-island-bay|title=The Dellabarca family, Island Bay – Italians – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.islandbaylittleitaly.com/|title=ISLAND BAY LITTLE ITALY|website=ISLAND BAY LITTLE ITALY}}</ref>

===United Kingdom===
===United Kingdom===
* [[Little Italy, London|Little Italy]] in [[Clerkenwell]], [[London]].
* [[Little Italy, London|Little Italy]] in [[Clerkenwell]], [[London]].
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* The area around Fazeley Street in [[Digbeth]] in [[Birmingham]] used to be known as Little Italy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Little Italy/ The Italian Quarter |url=https://billdargue.jimdofree.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-l/little-italy/ |website=billdargue.jimdofree.com}}</ref>
* The area around Fazeley Street in [[Digbeth]] in [[Birmingham]] used to be known as Little Italy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Little Italy/ The Italian Quarter |url=https://billdargue.jimdofree.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-l/little-italy/ |website=billdargue.jimdofree.com}}</ref>


===United States===
[[File:Dancing of the Giglio - Giglio di Belmont 2014 - Little Italy, Bronx, New York.jpg|thumb|right|[[Arthur Avenue]], a Little Italy in [[the Bronx]], [[New York (state)|New York]]]]
[[File:Mulberry Street NYC c1900 LOC 3g04637u edit.jpg|thumb|[[Little Italy, Manhattan]], New York, ca. 1900]]
{{See also|List of Italian-American neighborhoods}}
*Several Little Italys exist in [[New York City]], including but not limited to:
**[[Little Italy, Manhattan]]
**[[Italian Harlem]]
**[[Arthur Avenue|Arthur Avenue, Bronx]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ny1.com/nyc/bronx/news/2018/12/11/holy-cannoli--little-italy-thrives-in-the-bronx|title=Holy Cannoli: Little Italy Thrives in the Bronx|website=www.ny1.com}}</ref>
**[[Morris Park, Bronx]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/realestate/30livi.html|title=Another Little Italy, With Scant Parking to Match|first=Jennifer|last=Bleyer|date=30 December 2007|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
**[[Bensonhurst, Brooklyn]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bklyner.com/italian-americans-open-arms-to-all-at-il-centro/|title=Italian-Americans Welcome Neighbors With Open Arms At Il Centro - BKLYNER|website=bklyner.com}}</ref>
**[[Dyker Heights, Brooklyn]]
**[[Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn]]
**[[Italian Williamsburg]], [[Brooklyn]]
**[[Ozone Park, Queens]]
**[[Howard Beach, Queens]]
**[[Middle Village, Queens]]
**[[Rosebank, Staten Island]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/realestate/rosebank-staten-island-a-little-italy-trying-not-to-shrink.html|title=Rosebank, Staten Island: A Little Italy, Trying Not to Shrink|first=C. J.|last=Hughes|date=26 April 2017|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
*[[Philadelphia]], home to the second-largest Italian-American population in the United States, also has several Little Italys:
** [[South Philadelphia]] – largely Italian
*** [[Bella Vista, Philadelphia|Bella Vista]]
*** [[Central South Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Central South Philadelphia]]
*** [[Girard Estate, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Girard Estate]]
*** [[Italian Market, Philadelphia|Italian Market]]
*** [[Marconi Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Marconi Plaza]]
*** [[Packer Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Packer Park]]
*** [[Passyunk Square, Philadelphia|Passyunk]] West
*** St. Richard
*** [[Whitman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Whitman]]
** Overbrook/West Philadelphia
** Areas of [[Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Kensington]]
** Sections of [[Northeast Philadelphia]]
*** [[Mayfair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Mayfair]]
*** [[Tacony, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Tacony]]
** Sections of [[Southwest Philadelphia]]
** Areas of [[West Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|West Kensington]]
*[[New England]]:
**Little Italy, [[Millinocket, Maine]]
**[[North End, Boston]], in [[Massachusetts]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boston.cbslocal.com/guide/a-guide-to-bostons-little-italy-the-north-end/|title=A Guide To Boston's Little Italy: The North End|date=2 March 2011}}</ref>
**[[Little Italy, Bridgeport]], in [[Connecticut]]
**[[Federal Hill, Providence]], [[Rhode Island]]
**[[Little Italy, Waterbury]], in Connecticut
**[[Wooster Square]], in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nhregister.com/shoreline/article/Branford-teacher-remembers-Little-Italy-in-New-13509338.php|title=Branford teacher remembers Little Italy in New Haven's Wooster Square in pictorial book|first=Lisa|last=Reisman|date=4 January 2019|website=New Haven Register}}</ref>
*[[New York (state)|New York]]:
**[[Dunwoodie, Yonkers]], New York
**Little Italy, [[Schenectady, New York|Schenectady]], in [[New York (state)|New York]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=Schenectady+little+italy|title=Schenectady little italy - Google Search|website=www.google.com}}</ref>
**Little Italy, [[Rochester, New York]]
**[[Little Italy, Syracuse]], in New York
**Little Italy, [[Poughkeepsie, New York]]
**Little Italy, [[Troy, New York]]
**[[Mansion Historic District | Mansion Hill]], Albany, New York
*[[Pennsylvania]]:
**[[Bloomfield (Pittsburgh)|Bloomfield, Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania
**[[Little Italy, Connellsville]], in [[Pennsylvania]]
**Little Italy in [[Erie, Pennsylvania]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yourerie.com/news/local-news/little-italy-is-being-made-more-liveable/461741864|title=Little Italy is being made more liveable|date=20 May 2016|website=YOURERIE}}</ref>
**[[Roseto, Pennsylvania]]
*[[New Jersey]]:
**[[Chambersburg, Trenton, New Jersey|Chambersburg]] and [[South Trenton]], [[New Jersey]]
**[[Little Italy, Paterson]], New Jersey
*[[California]]:
**[[Little Italy, San Diego, California]]
**[[North Beach, San Francisco]], in [[California]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2018/10/04/san-franciscos-north-beach-celebrates-150-years-italian-heritage/1483179002/|title=Celebrate 150 years of North Beach in San Francisco|website=USA TODAY}}</ref>
**[[San Pedro, Los Angeles]], in [[California]]
*Other:
**[[Little Italy Festival|Little Italy]], [[Clinton, Indiana|Clinton]], in [[Indiana]]
**[[Little Italy, Chicago]], in [[Illinois]]
**[[Little Italy, Arkansas]]
**[[Little Italy, Baltimore]], in [[Maryland]]
**[[Little Italy, Wilmington]], [[Delaware]]
**[[Little Italy, Cleveland]], in [[Ohio]]
**[[Little Italy, Omaha]], in [[Nebraska]]
**[[The Hill, St. Louis|The Hill]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmariani/2018/12/17/best-of-the-midwest-eating-around-st-louis-part-two/|title=Best Of The Midwest: Eating Around St. Louis, Part Two|first=John|last=Mariani|website=Forbes}}</ref>
**[[West Seventh]] in [[St. Paul, Minnesota]]
**[[Independence, Louisiana]]
**[[Little Italy, Clay County, West Virginia]]
**[[Little Italy, Randolph County, West Virginia]]


===Republic of Ireland===
===Republic of Ireland===
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*[[Savassi|Savassi, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais]]
*[[Savassi|Savassi, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais]]
*[[Antonio Prado|Antonio Prado, Rio Grande do Sul]]
*[[Antonio Prado|Antonio Prado, Rio Grande do Sul]]

===Canada===
*[[St. Leonard, Quebec|St. Leonard]], a borough of Montreal with a large Italian population
*[[LaSalle, Quebec|LaSalle]], a borough in Montreal with a large Italian population
*[[Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles]], another borough of Montreal with a prominent Italian population
*[[Corso Italia (Toronto)|Corso Italia]], a neighbourhood in Toronto
*[[Vaughan, Ontario]], A city in north of Toronto with a high population of Italians
*[[Stoney Creek, Ontario|Stoney Creek]], [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], Ontario<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hilltimes.com/backrooms/2004/01/19/in-hamilton-stoney-creek-is-called-tony-creek/13024| title=In Hamilton, Stoney Creek is called 'Tony Creek'| last=Persichilli| first=Angelo| date=2004-01-19| work=Hill Times}}</ref>
*North Burnaby, British Columbia


===Chile===
===Chile===
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===Kenya===
===Kenya===
*[[Malindi District]], Kilifi County
*[[Malindi District]], Kilifi County

===Mexico===
*[[Chipilo]], [[Puebla]]
*[[Colonia Manuel Gonzalez]], [[Veracruz]]
*[[La Merced barrio, Mexico City]]
*[[Colonia Roma]], [[Mexico City]]
*[[Gutierrez Zamora]], [[Veracruz]]
*[[Colonia Diez Gutierrez]], [[San Luis Potosi]]
*[[San Pedro Garza García|San Pedro]] ([[Monterrey]]), [[Nuevo Leon]]
*[[Nueva Italia, Michoacán]]
*[[Lombardia]], [[Michoacán]]
*[[Arandas, Jalisco]]
*[[Playa del Carmen]], [[Quintana Roo]]


===South Africa===
===South Africa===
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* [[Hoddesdon]], in [[Hertfordshire]] has a large [[Sicilians|Sicilian]] population.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lee Valley little Sicily |url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/homes-and-gardens/places-to-live/22589308.lee-valley-little-sicily/ |website=Great British Life}}</ref>
* [[Hoddesdon]], in [[Hertfordshire]] has a large [[Sicilians|Sicilian]] population.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lee Valley little Sicily |url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/homes-and-gardens/places-to-live/22589308.lee-valley-little-sicily/ |website=Great British Life}}</ref>
* [[Glasgow]] is the centre of the [[Italian Scots|Scottish Italian community]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Italian immigrants in Scotland |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z8r7tyc/revision/5 |website=BBC Bitesize}}</ref>
* [[Glasgow]] is the centre of the [[Italian Scots|Scottish Italian community]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Italian immigrants in Scotland |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z8r7tyc/revision/5 |website=BBC Bitesize}}</ref>

===United States===
{{See also|List of Italian-American neighborhoods}}
<!--alphabetical by state-->
*[[North Beach, San Francisco]], [[California]]
*[[San Pedro, Los Angeles]], [[California]]
*[[Little Italy, San Diego, California]]
*Spaghetti Hill, [[Monterey, California]]
*Little Italy/Morse Park Historic District, [[Wheat Ridge, Colorado]]
*[[Thompsonville (Enfield)]], Connecticut
*[[Town Plot]] in Waterbury, Connecticut
*[[Wooster Square]] in New Haven, Connecticut
*[[Italia, Florida|Italia]] in northern Florida
*[[Pompano Beach]], a section is partially an Italian neighborhood
*Taylor Street Archives, Chicago, Illinois (The port-of-call for Chicago's Italian Americans)
*Heat of Little Italy, Chicago, Illinois
*Little Sicily, Chicago, Illinois
*Bridgeport, Chicago, Illinois
*[[Dunning, Chicago]]
*Holy Rosary Neighborhood, [[Indianapolis, Indiana]]
*South Des Moines, [[Des Moines, Iowa]]
*[[Independence, Louisiana]]
*[[Old Forge, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania]] (Also known as "The Pizza Capital of the World" for their pizza)
*[[Little Italy, Baltimore]], Maryland
*[[North End, Boston, Massachusetts]]
*Columbus Park, [[Kansas City, Missouri]]
*[[The Hill, St. Louis|The Hill]], [[St. Louis, Missouri]]
*North East, [[Kansas City, Missouri]] (formerly Columbus Square)
*[[Eastern Market, Detroit|Eastern Market]], [[Detroit, Michigan]], considered to be the city's "Little Italy"
*[[Little Italy (Omaha)|Little Italy, Omaha]], Nebraska
*[[Seventh Avenue, Newark, New Jersey]]
*Varick Street, [[Utica, New York]]
*Dominick Street, [[Rome, New York]]
*North Side, [[Buffalo, New York]], though "Little Italy" was considered the West Side of the city
*[[Schenectady, New York]], proposed "Little Italy" from Hillary Clinton, to run through sections of downtown.
*[[Utica, New York]], East Side considered to be city's "Little Italy"
*[[Brier Hill]], Youngstown, Ohio
*[[Italian Village]] (Columbus), Ohio
*[[Italian Market, Philadelphia|Italian Market]] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*[[Bloomfield (Pittsburgh)|Bloomfield]], Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
*[[University Circle|Murray Hill]], Cleveland, Ohio
*[[Easton, Pennsylvania]]
*[[Roseto, Pennsylvania]]
*[[Federal Hill, Providence, Rhode Island]]
*[[Johnston, Rhode Island]] has the highest percentage of Italian Americans of any municipality in the country.
*[[Galveston, Texas]], south of [[Houston]], highest Italian-American population in the Greater Houston as well as Texas.
*[[Judiciary Square, Washington, D.C.]]
<!--alphabetical by state-->


===Venezuela===
===Venezuela===

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For other uses, see Little Italy (disambiguation).

World map of first level subdivisions (states, counties, provinces, etc.) that are home to Little Italys or Italian neighbourhoods

Little Italy is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood. The concept of "Little Italy" holds many different aspects of the Italian culture. There are shops selling Italian goods as well as Italian restaurants lining the streets. A "Little Italy" strives essentially to have a version of the country of Italy placed in the middle of a large non-Italian city. This sort of enclave is often the result of periods of Italian immigration, during which people of the same culture settled or were ostracized and segregated together in certain areas. As cities modernized and grew, these areas became known for their ethnic associations, and ethnic neighborhoods like "Little Italy" blossomed, becoming the areas they are today.

List of Little Italys

Australia

New Zealand

United Kingdom


Republic of Ireland

Other Italian neighborhoods

Some Italian neighborhoods may have other names, but are colloquially referred to as "Little Italy," including:

Argentina

Australia

Brazil

Chile

Kenya

South Africa

United Kingdom

Venezuela

See also

References

  1. ^ Screen, NZ On. "An Immigrant Nation - The Unbroken Thread | Television | NZ On Screen". www.nzonscreen.com.
  2. ^ "Island Bay Amore Mio". www.maritimemuseum.co.nz.
  3. ^ "The Dellabarca family, Island Bay – Italians – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand".
  4. ^ "ISLAND BAY LITTLE ITALY". ISLAND BAY LITTLE ITALY.
  5. ^ Little Italy. Camden Local Studios and Archives Centre. 2008. pp. 1–60. ISBN 9781900846219.
  6. ^ "envenuti to Ancoats Little Italy, Manchester, England, UK". Manchester's Ancoats Little Italy.
  7. ^ "Liverpool's Italian Families". Liverpool's Italian Families.
  8. ^ "Little Italy/ The Italian Quarter". billdargue.jimdofree.com.
  9. ^ Fallon, Donal (30 April 2018). "Dublin's Little Italy". comeheretome.com. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  10. ^ Appleton, James (8 December 2019). "Where to Find Italy in Dublin". italymagazine.com. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  11. ^ "Italians in Bedford". The Guardian.
  12. ^ "Lee Valley little Sicily". Great British Life.
  13. ^ "Italian immigrants in Scotland". BBC Bitesize.

Further reading

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Little Italys.
  • Buzzelli, Michael (2001). "From Little Britain to Little Italy: an urban ethnic landscape study in Toronto". Journal of Historical Geography. 27 (4): 573–587. doi:10.1006/jhge.2001.0355. S2CID 55546856.
  • Frunza, Bogdana Simina. Streetscape and Ethnicity: New York's Mulberry Street and the Redefinition of the Italian American Ethnic Identity (ProQuest, 2008)
  • Gabaccia, Donna R. (2007). "Inventing 'Little Italy'". Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 6 (1): 7–41. doi:10.1017/S1537781400001596. JSTOR 25144462. S2CID 162485743.
  • Gabaccia, Donna R. (2006). "Global Geography of 'Little Italy': Italian Neighbourhoods in Comparative Perspective" (PDF). Modern Italy. 11 (1): 9–24. doi:10.1080/13532940500489510. S2CID 56372320.
  • Harney, Robert F. "Toronto's Little Italy, 1885-1945." in Robert F. Harney and J. Vincenza Scarpaci, eds. Little Italies in North America (1981): 41-62.
  • Immerso, Michael. Newark's little Italy: The vanished first ward (Rutgers University Press, 1999).
  • Juliani, Richard N. Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians Before Mass Migration (Penn State Press, 2005)
  • Pozzetta, George E. "The Mulberry District of New York City: The Years before World War One." in Robert F. Harney and J. Vincenza Scarpaci, eds. Little Italies in North America (Toronto: The Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1979) pp: 7-40.
  • Sandler, Gilbert. The Neighborhood: The Story of Baltimore's Little Italy (Bodine & Associates, 1974).
  • Worrall, Janet E. (2004). "The impact of the Ku Klux Klan and prohibition on Denver's little Italy". Journal of the West. 43 (4): 32–40.
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