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The gondola (English: / ˈ ɡ ɒ n d ə l ə /, Italian:; Venetian: góndoła, Venetian: [ˈɡoŋdoɰa]) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon.
The Doge of Venice (/ d oʊ dʒ / DOHJ) [2] [a] was the highest role of authority within the Republic of Venice (697 CE to 1797 CE). [3] The word Doge derives from the Latin Dux, meaning "leader," and Venetian Italian for “duke”, highest official of the republic of Venice for over 1,000 years. [4]
A translation of an extract from G.B. Rubin de Cervin (1985), La flotta di Venezia: Navi e barche della Serenissima [The Venetian Fleet: Ships and Boats of the Venetian Republic], Milan: Automobilia, ISBN 88-85058-63-9. Official website of the Fondazione Bucintoro. Retrieved on 29 February 2008.
The Captain of the Gulf (Venetian: Capitan del Golfo; Italian: Capitano in/del Golfo) was a senior naval command of the Republic of Venice.. The post was established around 1330, when a squadron of ships was set up to patrol the "Gulf of Venice" (as the Adriatic Sea was known to the Venetians) and provide protection for commerce there. [1]
The Venetian navy (Venetian: Armada) was the navy of the Venetian Republic which played an important role in the history of the republic and the Mediterranean world. It was the premier navy in the Mediterranean Sea for many centuries between the medieval and early modern periods, providing Venice with control and influence over trade and ...
Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Robusti; 1518 – 31 May 1594) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of Italian Renaissance. Titian or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576) was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance.
The Oltramarini were primarily filled from local people from the Venetian possessions on the eastern Adriatic coast, i.e. the Slavic (as well as Latin) catholic population from Dalmatia, the so-called Schiavoni, and later, to a lesser extent, members of other nations who came to these units were also recruited, i.e. Christian refugees and ...
Europa was a first-rank ship of the line of the Venetian navy, serving from 1739 to 1764.. Europa belonged to the third and final batch of the San Lorenzo Zustinian class, representing the largest vessels of the Venetian navy, with some 50 metres (160 ft) total length, a displacement of c. 2000 tons, and armed with 66 cannon (28 × 40-pounders, 28 × 20-pounders, 10 × 14-pounders). [1]