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English: This map shows the location of the major Venetian forts across the island of Crete that were built during the time of the Venetian Empire and Renaissance. Date 3 April 2012
The Doge of Venice (/ d oʊ dʒ / DOHJ) [2] [a] was the doge or 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 sign in Venetian reading "Here Venetian is also spoken" Distribution of Romance languages in Europe. Venetian is number 15. Venetian, [7] [8] also known as wider Venetian or Venetan [9] [10] (łengua vèneta [11] [ˈlenɡu̯a ˈvɛneta] or vèneto), is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, [12] mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can ...
This is the largest room in the Doge's apartments and runs the entire width of this wing of the palace. The hall was used as a reception chamber and its decoration with large geographical maps was designed to underline the glorious tradition that was at the very basis of Venetian power.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
The last puzzle in "Pencilwise" has generally been "The World's Most Ornery Crossword," a large standard crossword puzzle which has two sets of clues spanning three pages. One set, which is revealed by folding one page in half to hide the second page, consists of "Hard" clues (three stars), while the clues under this fold are "Easy" (one star ...
831; i, ii, iii, iv (cultural) Agrigento, a Greek colony founded in the 6th century BCE, developed into one of the major cities of Magna Graecia and of the Mediterranean. Several Doric temples have been preserved, and they represent one of the most notable sites of Greek art and culture. [36] Villa Romana del Casale: Enna: 1997 832; i, ii, iii ...
The Bianco map (1436) The Bianco World Map is a map created by Andrea Bianco , a 15th-century Venetian sailor and cartographer who resided on Chios . This map was a large piece of a nautical atlas including ten pages made of vellum (each measuring 26 × 38 cm).