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Little Italy

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Little Italy is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood. The concept of "Little Italy" holds many different aspects of the Italian culture. There are shops selling Italian goods as well as Italian restaurants lining the streets. A "Little Italy" strives essentially to have a version of the country of Italy placed in the middle of a large non-Italian city. This sort of enclave is often the result of periods of Italian immigration, during which people of the same culture settled or were ostracized and segregated together in certain areas. As cities modernized and grew, these areas became known for their ethnic associations, and ethnic neighborhoods like "Little Italy" blossomed, becoming the areas they are today.

List of Little Italys

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=Canada=

File:Preston Street Ottawa.jpg

File:College street sign Toronto.jpeg, centre of Little Italy, Toronto]]

=New Zealand=

  • Island Bay, Wellington, is often nicknamed "Little Italy"{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/an-immigrant-nation-the-unbroken-thread-1994|title=An Immigrant Nation - The Unbroken Thread | Television | NZ On Screen|first=NZ On|last=Screen|website=www.nzonscreen.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/island-bay-amore-mio|title=Island Bay Amore Mio|website=www.maritimemuseum.co.nz}}{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/443/the-dellabarca-family-island-bay|title=The Dellabarca family, Island Bay – Italians – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.islandbaylittleitaly.com/|title=ISLAND BAY LITTLE ITALY|website=ISLAND BAY LITTLE ITALY}}

=United Kingdom=

  • Little Italy in Clerkenwell, London.
  • The area around Wardour Street and Old Compton Street in Soho, London used to be known as Little Italy.{{cite book |title=Little Italy |year=2008 |publisher=Camden Local Studios and Archives Centre |isbn=9781900846219 |pages=1–60}}
  • Ancoats in Manchester used to be known as Little Italy.{{cite web |title=envenuti to Ancoats Little Italy, Manchester, England, UK |url=https://www.ancoatslittleitaly.com/page2.html |website=Manchester's Ancoats Little Italy}}
  • The area around Scotland road in Liverpool used to be known as Little Italy.{{cite web |title=Liverpool's Italian Families |url=http://liverpoolsitalianfamilies.weebly.com/ |website=Liverpool's Italian Families}}
  • The area around Fazeley Street in Digbeth in Birmingham used to be known as Little Italy.{{cite web |title=Little Italy/ The Italian Quarter |url=https://billdargue.jimdofree.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-l/little-italy/ |website=billdargue.jimdofree.com}}

=United States=

File:Dancing of the Giglio - Giglio di Belmont 2014 - Little Italy, Bronx, New York.jpg, a Little Italy in the Bronx, New York]]

File:Little Italy, New York-L1002082.jpg in Little Italy, Manhattan, New York, at night]]

{{See also|List of Italian-American neighborhoods}}

=Republic of Ireland=

  • The Italian Quarter, Dublin
  • Little Italy, Dublin. An Italian migrant quarter that existed in the vicinity of Werburgh Street.{{Cite web|last=Fallon|first=Donal|date=2018-04-30|title=Dublin's Little Italy|url=https://comeheretome.com/2018/04/30/dublins-little-italy/|access-date=2023-08-08|website=comeheretome.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Appleton|first=James|date=2019-12-08|title=Where to Find Italy in Dublin|url=https://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/where-find-italy-dublin|access-date=2023-08-08|website=italymagazine.com |language=en}}

Other Italian neighborhoods

Some Italian neighborhoods may have other names, but are colloquially referred to as "Little Italy," including:

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=Canada=

  • St. Leonard, a borough of Montreal with a large Italian population
  • LaSalle, a borough in Montreal with a large Italian population
  • Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles, another borough of Montreal with a prominent Italian population
  • Corso Italia, a neighbourhood in Toronto
  • Vaughan, Ontario, A city in north of Toronto with a high population of Italians
  • Stoney Creek, Hamilton, Ontario{{cite news| url=http://www.hilltimes.com/backrooms/2004/01/19/in-hamilton-stoney-creek-is-called-tony-creek/13024| title=In Hamilton, Stoney Creek is called 'Tony Creek'| last=Persichilli| first=Angelo| date=2004-01-19| work=Hill Times}}
  • North Burnaby, British Columbia

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=United Kingdom=

  • Bedford, where the population is about 8% Italian or of Italian heritage.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jan/23/britishidentity.features113|title=Italians in Bedford|work=The Guardian}}
  • Hoddesdon, in Hertfordshire has a large Sicilian population.{{cite web |title=Lee Valley little Sicily |url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/homes-and-gardens/places-to-live/22589308.lee-valley-little-sicily/ |website=Great British Life}}
  • Glasgow is the centre of the Scottish Italian community.{{cite web |title=Italian immigrants in Scotland |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z8r7tyc/revision/5 |website=BBC Bitesize}}

=United States=

{{See also|List of Italian-American neighborhoods}}

See also

References

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Further reading

{{commons category|Little Italys}}

  • {{cite journal|last1=Buzzelli|first1=Michael|title=From Little Britain to Little Italy: an urban ethnic landscape study in Toronto|journal=Journal of Historical Geography|date=2001|volume=27|issue=4|pages=573–587|doi=10.1006/jhge.2001.0355|s2cid=55546856 }}
  • Frunza, Bogdana Simina. Streetscape and Ethnicity: New York's Mulberry Street and the Redefinition of the Italian American Ethnic Identity (ProQuest, 2008)
  • {{cite journal|last1=Gabaccia|first1= Donna R.|title=Inventing 'Little Italy'|journal= Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era|date=2007|pages= 7–41|jstor=25144462|volume=6|issue=1|doi= 10.1017/S1537781400001596|s2cid= 162485743}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Gabaccia|first1=Donna R.|title=Global Geography of 'Little Italy': Italian Neighbourhoods in Comparative Perspective|journal=Modern Italy|date=2006|volume=11|issue=1|pages=9–24|doi=10.1080/13532940500489510|s2cid=56372320 |url=http://masterpdi.free.fr/BWP/donagabacciaglobalmigrationitaly.pdf}}
  • Harney, Robert F. "Toronto's Little Italy, 1885-1945." in Robert F. Harney and J. Vincenza Scarpaci, eds. Little Italies in North America (1981): 41-62.
  • Immerso, Michael. Newark's little Italy: The vanished first ward (Rutgers University Press, 1999).
  • Juliani, Richard N. Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians Before Mass Migration (Penn State Press, 2005)
  • Pozzetta, George E. "The Mulberry District of New York City: The Years before World War One." in Robert F. Harney and J. Vincenza Scarpaci, eds. Little Italies in North America (Toronto: The Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1979) pp: 7-40.
  • Sandler, Gilbert. The Neighborhood: The Story of Baltimore's Little Italy (Bodine & Associates, 1974).
  • {{cite journal|last1=Worrall|first1= Janet E. |title=The impact of the Ku Klux Klan and prohibition on Denver's little Italy|journal= Journal of the West|volume= 43|issue=4 |date=2004|pages= 32–40}}

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