What you need to know about kidney disease. If you have diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, or a family history of kidney problems, you are at risk for kidney disease. Kidney disease is serious, but if you catch it early, you can slow it down or stop it. Ask your doctor to check your kidneys.
They included settlements in Sicily and the southern part of the Italian Peninsula. The Romans called the area of Sicily and the foot of Italy, Magna Graecia (Latin, Great Greece), since it was so densely inhabited by the Greeks.The ancient geographers differed on whether the term included Sicily or merely Apulia and Calabria â Strabo being the most prominent advocate of the wider definitions.outhern Italy or Mezzogiorno (. [ËmÉddzoËdÊorno] , literally midday) is the traditional term for the southern regions of Italy, encompassing the southern section of the continental Italian Peninsula and the island of Sicily.
Roman History (753 B.C. - A.D. 476) Rome, the City of the Seven Hills. Halfway down the Italian peninsula, on the west coast, is a small river called the Tiber. The coastal plain south of the river was known as Latium in ancient times, after the people who lived thereâthe Latins. These people were shepherds and farmers. In the hill country to the west lived the Sabines, distant kinsmen of the Latins.