As a nation state, Italy has emerged only in 1871. Until then the country was politically divided into a large number of independant cities, provinces and islands. The currently available evidences point out to a dominant Etruscan, Greek and Roman cultural influence on today's Italians.
An ancestor, ARLET Francois Thomas, is born between the years 1770-1778 in Arcille " sur la rivière de Gênes ". Later, at least in 1998, he came living in Belgium. Can you please advice me how continue my researches ?
Many thanks for your advices...
Madeleine
Italians have not invented coffee, yet the passion they have for it makes the rest of world believe they discovered it. Around the end of the sixteen century, it was Venice where coffee was first introduced. Thanks to its trade relationship with the Eastern countries. Initially, coffee was considere...
