1. Italian Peninsula - Noun
2. Italian Peninsula - Proper noun
a boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea
Source: WordNetFirst marriage In the disturbances that followed the fall of Stilicho, throughout the Italian Peninsula the wives and children of the foederati were slain. Source: Internet
Since the Samnites were more warlike than the Campanians, they easily took over the cities of Capua and Cumae, in an area which was one of the most prosperous and fertile in the Italian Peninsula at the time. Source: Internet