Italy
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| Repubblica Italiana | |
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| Continent: | Europe |
| Affiliation: | N/A (Red Zone) |
Italy (Italian: Italia), officially the Italian Republic; (Italian: Repubblica Italiana), was an European country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shared its northern Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia.
Italy has been the home of many European cultures, such as the Etruscans and the Romans, and later was the birthplace of the movement of the Italian Renaissance. Italy's capital Rome has been the center of Western Civilization, and is the center of Roman Catholic Church.
The country was taken over by the USSR during Great World War II, and heavy fighting took place between the Allies and the Soviets over the region, and while the aggressor managed to push the defenders out from Italy temporarily, eventually the Allies took back the country.
In the 1990s, Italy once again found itself in the spotlight, as the first Tiberium meteorite hit Earth near the Tiber river in Italy. Considered an extremely valuable resource, the ecological consequences weren't at first understood or taken into account. Due to this, Italy was eventually overrun by Tiberium and designated as a Red Zone. Completely devoid of non-Tiberium life, ruins of civilian buildings and military installations litter the increasingly alien and hostile environment.
In 2047, during the Scrin invasion, Italy was one of the Red Zones where Thresholds were erected. These massive gateway towers were apparently supposed to open Earth to more Scrin forces, but GDI prevented the finishing of eighteen out of nineteen towers, with the last, on Sicily, secured by the Brotherhood of Nod. The Battle of Ground Zero and Battle of Kane's Tower occurred there.
