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Venice (/ ˈ v ɛ n ɪ s / VEN-iss; ... In 775/6, the episcopal seat of Olivolo (San Pietro di Castello) was created. During the reign of duke Agnello Particiaco (811 ...
The Republic of Venice in AD 1000. The republican territory is dark red, the borders in light red. The Republic of Venice (Venetian: Repùbrega Vèneta; Italian: Repubblica di Venezia) was a sovereign state and maritime republic in Northeast Italy, which existed for a millennium between the 8th century and 1797.
The Republic of Venice, [a] officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenìssima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto , over the course of its 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the ...
1999 – City master plan created. [34] 2000 ... 2020 – Venice was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism is blocked and the Carnival of Venice is closed early.
1405 – Venice acquires Vicenza, Verona, Padua, and Este; 1409 – Ladislaus of Naples sells his "rights" on Dalmatia to the Republic of Venice for 100,000 ducats. Dalmatia will with some interruptions remain under Venetian rule for nearly four centuries, until 1797.
Venice proved to be a more powerful adversary, and with the decline of Genoese power during the 15th century Venice became pre-eminent on the seas. Foreign invasions of Italy (the Italian Wars ) began with the 1494 invasion by France that wreaked widespread devastation on Northern Italy and ended the independence of many of the city-states.
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View of Venice in 1565. Venice was founded in 421 after the destruction of nearby communities by the Huns and the Lombards.In the shifting Italian borders of the following centuries, Venice benefited from remaining under the control of the Roman Empire - increasingly as the furthest Northwestern outpost of the now Constantinople centered power.