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History of the Republic of Venice. 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.
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 major ...
Venice (/ ˈvɛnɪs / VEN-iss; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] ⓘ; Venetian: Venesia [veˈnɛsja], formerly Venexia [veˈnɛzja]) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 126 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 472 bridges. [3]
712 – King Liutprand of the Lombards occupies Ravenna but loses it to the Byzantines. 726 – Byzantine Emperor Leo III orders the destruction of icons. The lagoon communities rise up in rebellion. 726 or 727 – Paul, Exarch of Ravenna, is assassinated; according to legend, so is the provincial governor Marcello.
1097 – Market established on Rialto. [5] 1131 – Church of San Clemente is the first established settlement on the Isola di San Clemente. 1157 – Bank established. [1] 1173 – Rialto Bridge made of wood opened, designed by Nicolò Barattieri. [8] 1204 – Fourth Crusade embarks from Venice. 1228 – Fondaco dei Tedeschi built.
[20] Venice was able to prolong its state of freedom for more than a thousand years and established a standing superior to that of Rome. [21] The citizens of Venice believed themselves to be a pious nation for the lack of association with paganism in the past and claims that the city was founded on the Day of the Annunciation.
Venetian nobility. Coat of arms of the Republic of Venice, featuring the Lion of Saint Mark. The Great Council in a voting session at the Doge's Palace, 1648. The Venetian patriciate (Italian: Patriziato veneziano, Venetian: Patrisiato venesian) was one of the three social bodies into which the society of the Republic of Venice was divided ...
View of Venice in 1565. Venice was founded in 421 after the destruction of nearby communities by the Huns and the Lombards.In the shifting Italian borders of the following centuries, Venice benefited from remaining under the control of the Roman Empire - increasingly as the furthest Northwestern outpost of the now Constantinople centered power.