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Revision as of 16:15, 10 December 2006
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| Capital: | Bologna |
| Area: | 22,124 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 4,187,557 (2006) |
| pop. density: | 189 people/km² |
| Website: | Emilia-Romagna official website |
| ISO 3166-2: | IT05 |
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| Governor: | Vasco Errani ( DS) |
| Ruling party: | The Union |
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Emilia-Romagna is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. The capital is Bologna. It has an area of 20,124 km² and about 4,2 million inhabitants. It's one of the richest regions of Italy, and its cuisine one of the most characteristic.
History
The name Emilia-Romagna has roots in the Ancient Rome legacy in these lands. Emilia refers to via Emilia, an important Roman way connecting Rome to the northern part of Italy. Romagna is a corruption of Romània; when Ravenna was the capital of the Italian portion of the Byzantine Empire, the Lombards extended the official name of the Empire to the lands around Ravenna.
Gepgraphy
Emilia-Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. It forms a rough triangle, bounded on the East by the Adriatic Sea, on the North by the Po river and on the South by the Appennine range; these two linear features, with the Via Aemilia, and the A1 highway and the railway that run close and parallel to it, give an unusually regular structure to the whole region except for the easternmost part.
Economy
Agriculture is the most important economic activity: [citation needed] cereals, potatoes, maize, tomatoes and onions are the most important, along with fruit and grapes for the production of wine (of which the most famous are perhaps Lambrusco, Sangiovese and Albana). Cattle and hog breeding are also highly developed.
The industry of Emilia-Romagna is also healthy, especially the food industry, particularly concentrated in Parma and Bologna, mechanical and automotive (e.g., Ferrari, Ducati, Lamborghini, Maserati), and tourism especially along the Adriatic coastline. The region is also characterised by a unique economic attitude: the economy of Emilia-Romagna is largely based on its tens of thousands of cooperatives. In Emilia-Romagna, two out of three people belong to a co-op. Bologna alone hosts 8,000, including the one-million member left-wing Legacoop and the 250,000-strong Catholic Confcooperative. The nature of the region's economy is considered responsible for the high standard of living enjoyed by the inhabitants.[1]
Politics
Emilia-Romagna was historically a stronghold of the Italian Communist Party, and now is a stronghold of the center-left coalition The Union, forming with Tuscany and Marche the famous "Italian Red Triangle". Probably this is because of a strong tradition of anti-clericalism dating from the 19th century, when part of Emilia-Romagna belonged of the Papal States (mostly Romagna and Bologna, in Emilia there were two independent states ). At the April 2006 elections, Emilia-Romagna gave 60% of its votes to Romano Prodi.
Demographics
The population of Emilia Romagna is largely Italian, but there has been a rise in the number of migrants in the area, that nowadays consists in about 257,000 persons:
- Italian: 3,930,000 or 93.8%
- Moroccan: 39,946 or 1.0%
- Albanian: 28,870 or 0.7%
- Tunisian: 13,800 or 0.3%
- Romanian: 10,848 or 0.2%
Image gallery
See also
- Famous luthiers from Emilia-Romagna
References
- ^ A Market Without Capitalists, by Frances Moore Lappé (via GNN)
