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Wikipedia: The Italian people (Italian: italiani) are a people that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence (though the principle of Jus Sanguinis is used extensively and arguably more favorably in the Italian nationality law), and are distinguished from people of Italian descent and, historically, from ethnic Italians living in the unredeemed territories adjacent to the Italian peninsula. In addition to the 56 million Italians in Italy and 28,000 in San Marino, Italian-speaking, autochthonous groups are found in neighbouring countries: about 500,000 in Switzerland, a large, but undefined population in France (Nice, Corsica), and smaller groups in Slovenia and Croatia, primarily in Istria.
![[Spaghetti with tomato sauce, an iconic dish in Italian cuisine.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/John_27s_Inc_Pizza_Spaghetti_s.jpg "Spaghetti with tomato sauce, an iconic dish in Italian cuisine.")
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![[An image showing an Italian couple in Libya during the Italian colonial rule of Libya]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Barqa2_s.jpg "An image showing an Italian couple in Libya during the Italian colonial rule of Libya")
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![[Alessandro Manzoni, one of 19th century Italy's greatest literary figures]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Manzoni_1802_s.jpg "Alessandro Manzoni, one of 19th century Italy's greatest literary figures")
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![[Collage of 20 famous Italians]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Famous_Italians_collage_s.jpg "Collage of 20 famous Italians")
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