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Venetian Arsenal towers. The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy. Owned by the state, the Arsenal was responsible for the bulk of the Venetian Republic's naval power from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period. It was ...
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 ...
This marked the first time the city had been used as an Austrian naval base, and it continued to serve as such until the end of World War I. In late April 1848, the reconstituted Austrian fleet prepared to begin hostilities with a blockade of Venice in order to assist Austria's army against the Italian nationalists who had seized the city.
View of the Corfu Venetian arsenal from the bay of Gouvia. Located near the mouth of the Adriatic Sea, Corfu was a very strategic location for Venice and the Venetians built extensive fortifications to defend the island against incursions. The island was also at the centre of their naval operations in the Levant.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Naval battles of the Ottoman–Venetian Wars (2 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Naval battles involving the Republic of Venice"
Venetian naval efforts in the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles in 1717 and 1718, however, met with little success. With the Treaty of Passarowitz (21 July 1718), Austria made large territorial gains, but Venice lost the Morea, for which its small gains in Albania and Dalmatia were little compensation. This was the last war with the Ottoman Empire.
Venetian–Genoese wars: Carlo Zeno — Genoese fleet under the French Marshal Boucicaut: Venetian victory: 1412, August 24: Motta di Livenza, Veneto: Hungarian–Venetian wars: Carlo Malatesta — Hungarian forces of Sigismund of Luxembourg: Venetian victory, consolidation of Venetian rule over Dalmatia: 1416, May 29: northern entrance of the ...
Map of the route taken between Rovereto and Torbole. Galeas per montes (galleys across mountains) is the name given to a feat of military engineering made between December 1438 and April 1439 by the Republic of Venice, when several Venetian ships, including galleys and frigates were transported from the Adriatic Sea to Lake Garda.