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  2. History of the Republic of Venice - Wikipedia

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    He was the son of Orso and represented the attempt of his father to establish a dynasty. Such attempts were more than commonplace among the doges of the first few centuries of Venetian history, but all were ultimately unsuccessful. The changing politics of the Frankish Empire began to change the factional division of Venice. One faction was ...

  3. Republic of Venice - Wikipedia

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    The Ottoman Empire started sea campaigns as early as 1423, when it waged a seven-year war with the Venetian Republic over maritime control of the Aegean, the Ionian, and the Adriatic Seas. The wars with Venice resumed after the Ottomans captured the Kingdom of Bosnia in 1463, and lasted until a favorable peace treaty was signed in 1479 just ...

  4. Venetian rule in the Ionian Islands - Wikipedia

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    It is believed that the Venetian period on the Ionian Islands was generally prosperous, especially compared with the coinciding Tourkokratia — Turkish rule over the remainder of present-day Greece. [1] The governor of the Ionian Islands during the Venetian period was the Provveditore generale da Mar, who resided on Corfu. Additionally, each ...

  5. Timeline of the Republic of Venice - Wikipedia

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    1082 – Needing Venetian naval assistance, the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos grants them major trading concessions within his Empire in a chrysobull 1084 Domenico Selvo personally leads a fleet against the Normans , but is defeated and loses 9 great galleys, the largest and most heavily armed ships in the Venetian war fleet.

  6. Stato da Màr - Wikipedia

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    The Venetian hold over navigation in the Adriatic Sea was maintained for centuries, to the extent that it was labeled "Mare di Venezia" (sea of Venice) on maps of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [citation needed] From the 15th century onwards, the history of Venice's overseas empire is dominated by successive Ottoman–Venetian wars.

  7. Kingdom of the Morea - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of the Morea or Realm of the Morea (Italian: Regno di Morea) was the official name the Republic of Venice gave to the Peloponnese peninsula in Southern Greece (which was more widely known as the Morea until the 19th century) when it was conquered from the Ottoman Empire during the Morean War in 1684–99.

  8. Doge of Venice - Wikipedia

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    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," originally referring to any military leader, becoming in the Late Roman Empire the title for a leader of an expeditionary force formed by detachments (vexillationes) from the frontier army ...

  9. Kingdom of Candia - Wikipedia

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    The Realm or Kingdom of Candia (Venetian: Regno de Càndia; Italian: Regno di Candia) or Duchy of Candia (Venetian: Dogado de Càndia; Italian: Ducato di Candia) was the official name of Crete during the island's period as an overseas colony of the Republic of Venice, from the initial Venetian conquest in 1205–1212 to its fall to the Ottoman Empire during the Cretan War (1645–1669).