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Two Great Empires Traded for Financial Gain and Achieved a Brilliant Cultural Exchange as Well
For 400 years, the Eastern Mediterranean was the domain of two great powers: the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. As rivals, they fought seven different wars, but in peacetime they eagerly ...
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Book Review: The Republic of Venice: De magistratibus et republica Venetorum
A major contribution to the history of political ideas, the book had considerable influence on the thinking of later political theorists, including some of the Founding Fathers, who looked to Venice ...
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Every dial is unique in Venezianico’s Damascus steel watch collection
Whether you prefer the name Venice, The Most Serene Republic of Venice or its more colloquial Serenissima, the Italian region ...
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The Setting of Romeo and Juliet: City of Verona
The historic city of Verona was founded in the 1st century B.C. It particularly flourished under the rule of the Scaliger family in the 13th and 14th centuries and as part of the Republic of Venice ...