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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]
The video received press coverage from CNN, FOX News, NBC News, The Washington Post, VH1.com, and Hotair.com. [8] In July 2008, VenetianPrincess and MakeMeBad35's video collaboration of "Drunken Genie" (as titled on VenetianPrincess' channel) and "My Pretty Genie" (as titled on MakeMeBad35's channel) got an Epic Fail on Attack of the Show on G4 .
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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.
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.
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
Map of the Western and Eastern Roman empire in the end of the 4th century AD, identifying the location of the Venedae (Veneti) in central and eastern Europe.. Among the Byzantine authors, the Gothic author Jordanes in his work Getica (written in 550 or 551 AD) [7] describes the Veneti as a "populous nation" whose dwellings begin at the sources of the Vistula and occupy "a great expanse of land".