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Drainage of the marshy areas throughout Italy commenced in 1928. The principle factors motivating the project were widespread unemployment, the discontent of war veterans, the spread of malaria, Mussolini’s “Battle of Wheat” and the social tensions created by ruralist demographic policies aimed at stemming the exodus from the country towards the cities. The emigration plan from many regions of northern Italy was implemented with the distribution of smallholdings in the drained areas.
The distinct prevalence of immigrants from the Veneto region was due to the greater population density of their native land and their resistance to malaria. Consequently, independent communities settled in what were formerly the Pontine Marshes and Roman Marshes, and other newly drained areas, and even today retain a distinct identity from the surrounding populations, with their own dialect, customs and traditions.
Graziella Gnozzi
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18 pp.; 20 duotone B/W photos; Ita.
softcover 30x30 cm
I Quaderni di Mezzaluna publishers
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