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.
Non-Greek, inland region of western Asia Minor; capital at Sardis. Macedonia. A large region of northern Greece, today extending well into Yugoslavia. A kingdom from the mid-7th century, Macedonia contained a mixture of Greek and non-Greek elements. Magna Graecia. âGreat Greece,â used to refer to the region of South Italy colonized by the Greeks.