Lira

The former Italian currency was the lira and its symbol was "₤". It's not related to the Turkish lira.

In several European countries, the current currency is the Euro. Its symbol is €. One Euro is worth about two Turkish lira.

The previous Italian monetary unit was the lira, with the symbol "₤". It isn't linked to the Turkish lira.

The Turkish lira has fallen more than 40 percent since the start of the year.

There are also people who invest thousands of lira in cryptocurrencies.

France has given up the franc. Germany has given up the deutschmark. And other euro members have given up their longtime currencies, the lira, the peseta, the drachma and many others.

The first evidence of the Byzantine lira is in a Persian literary source of the ninth century.

Some instruments comprise types which are found, more or less unchanged, also with various nations and periods (recorder, shawm), whereas others belong to smaller regions (byzantine lira, rectangular harp) or only to the territory of Serbia and Macedonia (drums, larger shawms, especially in the Turkish period).

Being an approximate synonym of cithara, the word lyra is most often applied to the harp, but one also finds it interpreted as the Germanic lyre, Byzantine lira (equated in turn with the Arabic rebab), hurdy-gurdy, citole or gittern, lute, etc.