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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.
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Venice (/ ˈ v ɛ n ɪ s / VEN-iss; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] ⓘ; Venetian: Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.It is built on a group of 127 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 472 bridges. [3]
Venice is built on alluvial mud, and most buildings in the city were (and mostly still are) supported by large numbers of timber piles driven into the mud. Above a stone platform sitting on these, the normal building material is brick, although the Renaissance facades were usually faced with Istrian stone , a fine limestone that is not strictly ...
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 ...
1854 – November: Ponte dell'Accademia built. [5] 1857 – Population: 118,173. [2] 1859 – Venice becomes part of the Italian confederation of Austria, per Treaty of Villafranca. [1] 1861 – Venezia Santa Lucia railway station opens. 1866 – Venice becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy per Treaty of Vienna (1866). [1]
The Republic of Venice was a major financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century.
A History of Venice is a 1982 book by the English popular historian John Julius Norwich (1929–2018) published in the United States by Vintage Books. It is an omnibus edition of two books previously published in Britain: Venice: The Rise to Empire, Allen Lane (1977). Venice: The Greatness and Fall, Allen Lane (1981).