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Italian Americans  

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  • The people of the Italian peninsula have come to America since its earliest days as English colonies. Although they came from every region and every province of Italy, most of the immigration from Italy has been from southern Italy and Sicily, the so-called mezzogiorno. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Italian Americans]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MFK0DF92-F

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