Academia Ligustica do BrennoW
Academia Ligustica do Brenno

The Academia Ligustica do Brenno is an Italian society founded in Genoa in 1970 with the aim of maintaining the purity of the Genoese dialect and other variants of Ligurian language. The name of the society is sometimes stylised as Académia Ligùstica do Brénno, showing the optional diacritical marks for educational purposes.

Intemelio dialectW
Intemelio dialect

Intemelio is a Ligurian dialect spoken historically from the Principality of Monaco to the Italian province of Imperia.

Italian irredentism in NiceW
Italian irredentism in Nice

Italian irredentism in Nice was the political movement supporting the annexation of the County of Nice to the Kingdom of Italy.

Ligurian languageW
Ligurian language

Ligurian or Genoese is a Gallo-Italic language spoken primarily in the territories of the former Republic of Genoa, now comprising the region of Liguria in Northern Italy, parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France, Monaco, the village of Bonifacio in Corsica, and in the villages of Carloforte on San Pietro Island and Calasetta on Sant'Antioco Island off the coast of southwestern Sardinia. It is part of the Gallo-Italic and Western Romance dialect continuum. Although part of Gallo-Italic, it exhibits several features of the Italo-Romance group of central and southern Italy. Zeneize, spoken in Genoa, the capital of Liguria, is the language's prestige dialect on which the standard is based.

Monégasque dialectW
Monégasque dialect

Monégasque is the variety of Ligurian spoken in Monaco, where it is considered a national language, even though it is not the official language of the country.

Niçard exodusW
Niçard exodus

The Niçard exodus was one of the first emigration phenomena that involved the Italian populations in the contemporary age. It was due to the refusal of a quarter of the Niçard Italians to stay in Nice after its annexation to France in 1861, which was decided after the Plombières Agreement.

Roquebrune-Cap-MartinW
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France between Monaco and Menton. The name was changed from Roquebrune to differentiate the town from Roquebrune-sur-Argens in the neighboring Var department.

TabarchinoW
Tabarchino

Tabarchino is a dialect of the Ligurian language spoken in Sardinia.

La TurbieW
La Turbie

La Turbie is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.