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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 ...
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]
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.
Relief map of Veneto. Veneto is the 8th largest region in Italy, with a total area of 18,398.9 km 2 (7,103.9 sq mi). It is located in the north-eastern part of Italy and is bordered to the east by Friuli-Venezia Giulia, to the south by Emilia-Romagna, to the west by Lombardy and to the north by Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.
Being Venetian patricians was an honour for all of European nobility and it was common with princes and kings of other states to ask for and obtain the title of N.H., including, among others, the kings of France, the Savoy, the Mancinis, the Rospigliosi, and the papal families of the Orsini and the Colonna.
From the 1490s through the 1530s, the Council of Ten and other Venetian authorities enacted sumptuary laws. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In 1506, the Ten enacted an anti- banqueting law, seeking to prevent ambitious noblemen from engaging in vote buying by hosting lavish dinner parties at the compaginie della calza (exclusive social societies).
[7] [8] [9] The Gaulish name is cognate with many other ethnic names found in ancient Europe, such as the Venedoti (> Gwynedd), the Adriatic Veneti, the Vistula Veneti (> Wendes), and the Eneti. [10] The city of Vannes, attested c. 400 AD as civitas Venetum ('civitas of the Veneti'; Venes in 1273) is named after the Gallic tribe. [11]