Venice, the Glossary
- ️Thu Jul 25 1985
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.[1]
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- 420s establishments
- 420s in the Roman Empire
- 5th-century establishments in Italy
- Car-free zones in Europe
- Islands of the Venetian Lagoon
- Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy
- Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Venice
- Populated coastal places in Italy
- Populated places established in the 5th century
- Port cities and towns of the Adriatic Sea
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia is a public tertiary academy of art in Venice, Italy.
See Venice and Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
Acqua alta
An acqua alta is an exceptional tide peak that occurs periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea.
Across the River and into the Trees
Across the River and Into the Trees is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1950, after first being serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine earlier that year.
See Venice and Across the River and into the Trees
Actv
Actv S.p.A. (Azienda del Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano) is a public company responsible for public transportation in Venice and Chioggia municipalities and for interurban bus services in province of Venice.
See Venice and Actv
Adda (river)
The Adda (Latin: Abdua, or Addua; Lombard: Ada or, again, Adda in local dialects where the double consonants are marked) is a river in North Italy, a tributary of the Po.
Adrian Willaert
Adrian Willaert (– 7 December 1562) was a Flemish composer of High Renaissance music.
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Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.
Adriatic Veneti
The Veneti (sometimes also referred to as Venetici, Ancient Veneti or Paleoveneti to distinguish them from the modern-day inhabitants of the Veneto region, called Veneti in Italian) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of Veneto, from the middle of the 2nd millennium BC and developing their own original civilization along the 1st millennium BC.
See Venice and Adriatic Veneti
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.
Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Agnello Participazio
Agnello Participazio (Latin: Agnellus Particiacus) was the tenth traditional and eighth (historical) doge of the Duchy of Venetia from 811 to 827.
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Aistulf
Aistulf (also Ahistulf, Aistulfus, Haistulfus, Astolf etc.; Astolfo; died December 756) was the Duke of Friuli from 744, King of the Lombards from 749, and Duke of Spoleto from 751.
Aksaray
Aksaray (Koine Greek: Ἀρχελαΐς Arhelays, Medieval Greek: Κολώνεια Koloneia, Ancient Greek: Γαρσάουρα Garsaura) is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey.
Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
Alder
Alders are trees that compose the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae.
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Aldine Press
The Aldine Press was the printing office started by Aldus Manutius in 1494 in Venice, from which were issued the celebrated Aldine editions of the classics (Latin and Greek masterpieces, plus a few more modern works).
Aldus Manutius
Aldus Pius Manutius (Aldo Pio Manuzio; 6 February 1515) was an Italian printer and humanist who founded the Aldine Press.
Alessandro Santin
Alessandro Santin (born 6 October 1958 in Venice, Italy) is an Italian former race car driver.
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Alexandria
Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is an American publishing house that was founded by Blanche Knopf and Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915.
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Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
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Alternate history
Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.
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Altinum
Altinum (in Altino, a frazione of Quarto d'Altino) was an ancient town of the Veneti 15 km southeast of modern Treviso, close to the mainland shore of the Lagoon of Venice.
Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Ancona
Ancona (also) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region of Central Italy, with a population of around 101,997. Venice and Ancona are Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy and port cities and towns of the Adriatic Sea.
Andrea Borella
Andrea Borella (born 23 June 1961) is an Italian fencer.
Andrea Cipressa
Andrea Cipressa (born 14 December 1963) is an Italian fencer.
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Andrea di Robilant
Andrea di Robilant (born 13 February 1957) is an Italian journalist and writer.
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Andrea Gabrieli
Andrea Gabrieli (1532/1533Bryant, Grove online – August 30, 1585) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance.
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Andrea Gritti
Andrea Gritti (17 April 1455 – 28 December 1538) was the Doge of the Venetian Republic from 1523 to 1538, following a distinguished diplomatic and military career.
Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio (Andrea Paładio; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.
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Andrea Tirali
Andrea Tirali (around 1660–1737) was an Italian architect working in Venice and the Veneto.
Angel wings
Angel wings are a traditional sweet crisp pastry made out of dough that has been shaped into thin twisted ribbons, deep-fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Angelo Beolco
Angelo Beolco (c. 1496 – March 17, 1542), better known by the nickname Ruzzante or Ruzante, was a Venetian (Paduan) actor and playwright.
Angelo Spanio
Angelo Spanio (October 4, 1939 in Venice – October 1, 1999) was an Italian professional football player.
Anne Rice
Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and bible fiction.
Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina (1425–1430February 1479), properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni and Anglicized as Anthony of Messina, was an Italian painter from Messina, active during the Italian Early Renaissance.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music.
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Aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock, or of unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).
Aquileia
Aquileia is an ancient Roman city in Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about from the sea, on the river Natiso (modern Natisone), the course of which has changed somewhat since Roman times. Venice and Aquileia are world Heritage Sites in Italy.
Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
Architectural style
An architectural style is a classification of buildings (and nonbuilding structures) based on a set of characteristics and features, including overall appearance, arrangement of the components, method of construction, building materials used, form, size, structural design, and regional character.
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Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.
Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Armenia
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.
Arsenal
An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned.
Artesian well
An artesian well is a well that brings groundwater to the surface without pumping because it is under pressure within a body of rock and/or sediment known as an aquifer.
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
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Assessor (Italy)
In Italy an assessor (in Italian language: assessore) is a member of a Giunta, the executive body in all levels of local government: regions, provinces and comunes.
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Attila
Attila, frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death, in early 453.
Austrian Federal Railways
The Austrian Federal Railways (Österreichische Bundesbahnen, formally Österreichische Bundesbahnen-Holding Aktiengesellschaft or ÖBB-Holding AG and formerly the Bundesbahnen Österreich or BBÖ), now commonly known as ÖBB, is the national railway company of Austria, and the administrator of Liechtenstein's railways.
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Baicoli
Baicoli (baìcołi) are Italian biscuits, originating in the 1700s in the city of Venice.
Baldassare d'Anna
Baldassare or Baldasarre d'Anna (– after 1639) was an Italian painter, active in a Mannerist or late-Renaissance style.
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Baldassare Longhena
Baldassare Longhena (1598 – 18 February 1682) was an Italian architect, who worked mainly in Venice, where he was one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture of the period.
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Balkan Insight
Balkan Insight is a website of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) that focuses on news, analysis, commentary and investigative reporting from southeast Europe.
Banca Popolare di Vicenza
Banca Popolare di Vicenza (BPVi) was an Italian bank and currently a winding-down company.
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Bangladeshis
Bangladeshis (বাংলাদেশী) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centred on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay.
Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.
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Baroque music
Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.
Battle of Lepanto
The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras.
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Battle of Manzikert
The Battle of Manzikert or Malazgirt was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Empire on 26 August 1071 near Manzikert, theme of Iberia (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey).
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Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson was an English playwright and poet.
Bergamo
Bergamo (Bèrghem) is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of Northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo and 70 km (43 mi) from Garda and Maggiore.
Bering Sea
The Bering Sea (p) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean.
Bering Strait
The Bering Strait (Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
Lieutenant-General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, (21 March 1889 – 4 July 1963) was a British-born New Zealand soldier and Victoria Cross recipient, who served as the 7th governor-general of New Zealand from 1946 to 1952.
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Bishop
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.
Black Death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
Bohemia
Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.
Brenner Pass
The Brenner Pass (Brennerpass, shortly Brenner; Passo del Brennero) is a mountain pass over the Alps which forms the border between Italy and Austria.
Brenta (river)
The Brenta is an Italian river that runs from Trentino to the Adriatic Sea just south of the Venetian lagoon in the Veneto region, in the north-east of Italy.
Brescia
Brescia (locally; Brèsa,; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in northern Italy. Venice and Brescia are world Heritage Sites in Italy.
Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945.
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Bridge of Sighs
The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri, Ponte de i Sospiri) is a bridge in Venice, Italy.
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British Armed Forces
The British Armed Forces are the military forces responsible for the defence of the United Kingdom, its Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies.
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Brooks Range
The Brooks Range (Gwich'in: Gwazhał) is a mountain range in far northern North America stretching some from west to east across northern Alaska into Canada's Yukon Territory.
Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna (born Bruno Grossato, 21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Burano
Burano is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, near Torcello at the northern end of the lagoon, known for its lace work and brightly coloured homes. Venice and Burano are islands of the Venetian Lagoon.
Butter cookie
Butter cookies, also known as Danish butter cookies, are cookies originating in Denmark consisting of butter, flour, and sugar.
Byzantine architecture
Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great established a new Roman capital in Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Byzantine Iconoclasm
The Byzantine Iconoclasm (lit) were two periods in the history of the Byzantine Empire when the use of religious images or icons was opposed by religious and imperial authorities within the Ecumenical Patriarchate (at the time still comprising the Roman-Latin and the Eastern-Orthodox traditions) and the temporal imperial hierarchy.
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Byzantine Rite
The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, is a liturgical rite that is identified with the wide range of cultural, devotional, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christian church of Constantinople.
Byzantium
Byzantium or Byzantion (Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Thracian settlement and later a Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and which is known as Istanbul today.
Ca' d'Oro
The Ca' d'Oro or Palazzo Santa Sofia is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy.
Ca' Foscari
Ca' Foscari, the palace of the Foscari family, is a Gothic building on the waterfront of the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia), or simply Ca' Foscari, is a public research university and business school in Venice, Italy.
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Ca' Pesaro
Ca' Pesaro is a Baroque marble palace turned art museum, facing the Grand Canal of Venice, Italy.
Ca' Rezzonico
Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.
Caffè Florian
Caffè Florian is a coffee house situated in the Procuratie Nuove of Piazza San Marco, Venice.
Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Candide
Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759.
Cannaregio
Cannaregio is the northernmost of the six historic sestieri (districts) of Venice.
Canvas
Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, shelters, as a support for oil painting and for other items for which sturdiness is required, as well as in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases, and shoes.
Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.
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Cardinal (Catholic Church)
A cardinal (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis) is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church.
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Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (also,; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice.
Carlo Gozzi
Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 – 4 April 1806) was an Italian (Venetian) playwright and champion of Commedia dell'arte.
Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect and designer.
Carnival of Venice
The Carnival of Venice (Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy, famous throughout the world for its elaborate costumes and masks.
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Carolina Morace
Carolina Morace (born 5 February 1964) is an Italian former footballer, who played as a striker.
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Castello, Venice
Castello is the largest of the six sestieri of Venice, Italy.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Catholic-Hierarchy.org
Catholic-Hierarchy.org is an online database of bishops and dioceses of the Latin Church and the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches that are in full communion with Rome.
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Cavallino-Treporti
Cavallino-Treporti is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, northern Italy. Venice and Cavallino-Treporti are cities and towns in Veneto and municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Venice.
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CBC News
CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.
Cello
The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.
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Centre-left coalition (Italy)
The centre-left coalition (coalizione di centro-sinistra) is a political alliance of political parties in Italy active under several forms and names since 1995, when The Olive Tree was formed under the leadership of Romano Prodi.
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Centre-right coalition (Italy)
The centre-right coalition (coalizione di centro-destra) is a political alliance of political parties in Italy active under several forms and names since 1994, when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed the italic party.
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
Charles Bentley (painter)
Charles Bentley (1805/6–4 September 1854), was an English watercolour painter of coastal and river scenery.
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Charles VI of France
Charles VI (3 December 136821 October 1422), nicknamed the Beloved (le Bien-Aimé) and in the 19th century, the Mad (le Fol or le Fou), was King of France from 1380 until his death in 1422.
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Chinese people
The Chinese people, or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation.
Chinoiserie
(loanword from French chinoiserie, from chinois, "Chinese") is the European interpretation and imitation of Chinese and other Sinosphere artistic traditions, especially in the decorative arts, garden design, architecture, literature, theatre, and music.
Chivalry
Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220.
Christine de Pizan
Christine de Pizan or Pisan (born Cristina da Pizzano; September 1364 –), was an Italian-born French poet and court writer for King Charles VI of France and several French dukes.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Chronicon Venetum et Gradense
The Chronicon Venetum et Gradense, formerly known as the Chronicon Sagornini, is a Venetian chronicle compiled by John the Deacon in ca.
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City-state
A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory.
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (3 December 179318 May 1867) was a prominent English painter (often inaccurately credited as William Clarkson Stanfield) who was best known for his large-scale paintings of dramatic marine subjects and landscapes.
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Claudio Ambrosini
Claudio Ambrosini (born 9 April 1948) is an Italian composer and conductor.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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CNN Business
CNN Business (formerly CNN Money) is a financial news and information website, operated by CNN.
Colony
A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule.
Commedia dell'arte was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italian theatre, that was popular throughout Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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Commerce
Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to the smooth, unhindered distribution and transfer of goods and services on a substantial scale and at the right time, place, quantity, quality and price through various channels from the original producers to the final consumers within local, regional, national or international economies.
Comune
A comune (comuni) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.
Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia
The Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, also known as the Venice Conservatory, is a conservatory in Venice, Italy, named after composer Benedetto Marcello and established in 1876.
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Constantinople
Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330. Venice and Constantinople are capitals of former nations.
Constitution of Italy
The Constitution of the Italian Republic (Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana) was ratified on 22 December 1947 by the Constituent Assembly, with 453 votes in favour and 62 against, before coming into force on 1 January 1948, one century after the previous Constitution of the Kingdom of Italy had been enacted.
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Consul
Consul (abbrev. cos.; Latin plural consules) was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire.
Continental Divide of the Americas
The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas.
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Coraggio Italia
Coraggio Italia (also translatable as 'Cheer up Italy', CI) is a liberal-conservative political party in Italy, led by Luigi Brugnaro.
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Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Maria Funke (born 10 December 1958) is a German author of children's fiction.
Council of Ten
The Council of Ten (Consiglio dei Dieci; Consejo de i Diexe), or simply the Ten, was from 1310 to 1797 one of the major governing bodies of the Republic of Venice.
Counter-Reformation
The Counter-Reformation, also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to, the Protestant Reformations at the time.
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Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
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Crime fiction
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.
Cruise Lines International Association
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) is a cruise line trade association.
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Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.
Cry to Heaven
Cry to Heaven is a novel by American author Anne Rice published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1982.
Cyprus
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Dalmatia
Dalmatia (Dalmacija; Dalmazia; see names in other languages) is one of the four historical regions of Croatia, alongside Central Croatia, Slavonia, and Istria, located on the east shore of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.
Daniel Bomberg
Daniel Bomberg (–) was one of the most important early printers of Hebrew books.
Daniele Manin
Daniele Manin (13 May 180422 September 1857) was an Italian patriot, statesman and leader of the Risorgimento in Venice.
Daniele Scarpa
Daniele Scarpa (born 3 January 1964) is an Italian canoe sprinter who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997.
Dead Lagoon
Dead Lagoon is a 1994 novel by Michael Dibdin and is the fourth in his Aurelio Zen series.
Death in Venice
Death in Venice is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912.
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Death in Venice (opera)
Death in Venice, Op.
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Deep foundation
A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers building loads to the earth farther down from the surface than a shallow foundation does to a subsurface layer or a range of depths.
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Democratic Party (Italy)
The Democratic Party (Partito Democratico., PD) is a social democratic political party in Italy.
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Doge (title)
A doge (plural dogi or doges; see below) was an elected lord and head of state in several Italian city-states, notably Venice and Genoa, during the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Doge of Venice
The Doge of Venice was the highest role of authority within the Republic of Venice (697 CE to 1797 CE).
Doge's Palace
The Doge's Palace (Doge pronounced; Palazzo Ducale; Pałaso Dogal) is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy.
Domenico Dragonetti
Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti (7 April 1763 – 16 April 1846) was an Italian double bass virtuoso and composer with a 3 string double bass.
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Domenico Montagnana
Domenico Montagnana (24 June 1686 – 6 March 1750) was an Italian master luthier based in Venice, Italy.
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Dominic DeNucci
Domenico A. Nucciarone (January 23, 1932 – August 12, 2021) was an Italian-American professional wrestler and trainer better known by the ring name Dominic DeNucci.
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Donna Leon
Donna Leon (born September 28, 1942) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.
Dorina Vaccaroni
Dorina Vaccaroni (born 24 September 1963 in Mestre) is an Italian former fencer, competing in the foil.
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Dorsoduro
Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, in northern Italy.
Dredging
Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment.
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik (Ragusa; see notes on naming) is a city in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, by the Adriatic Sea. Venice and Dubrovnik are capitals of former nations.
Duce
Duce is an Italian title, derived from the Latin word dux 'leader', and a cognate of duke.
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Duchcov
Duchcov (Dux) is a town in Teplice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic.
Duchy of Amalfi
The Duchy of Amalfi or the Republic of Amalfi was a de facto independent state centered on the Southern Italian city of Amalfi during the 10th and 11th centuries.
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Duchy of Gaeta
The Duchy of Gaeta (Ducatus Caietae) was an early medieval state centered on the coastal South Italian city of Gaeta.
Duchy of the Archipelago
The Duchy of the Archipelago (Δουκάτο τουΑρχιπελάγους, Ducato dell'arcipelago), also known as Duchy of Naxos or Duchy of the Aegean, was a maritime state created by Venetian interests in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea, in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, centered on the islands of Naxos and Paros.
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Duke
Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility.
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Dux
Dux (ducēs) is Latin for "leader" (from the noun dux, ducis, "leader, general") and later for duke and its variant forms (doge, duce, etc.). During the Roman Republic and for the first centuries of the Roman Empire, dux could refer to anyone who commanded troops, both Roman generals and foreign leaders, but was not a formal military rank.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Economic history of Venice
Venice, which is situated at the north end of the Adriatic Sea, was for hundreds of years the richest and most powerful centre of Europe, the reason being that it gained large-scale profits from the adjacent middle European markets.
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Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (translit,; Patriarchatus Oecumenicus Constantinopolitanus; Rum Ortodoks Patrikhanesi, İstanbul Ekümenik Patrikhanesi, "Roman Orthodox Patriarchate, Ecumenical Patriarchate") is one of the fifteen to seventeen autocephalous churches (or "jurisdictions") that together compose the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician.
Eighth Army (United Kingdom)
The Eighth Army was a field army of the British Army during the Second World War.
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Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (5 June 1646 – 26 July 1684) or Elena Lucrezia Corner, also known in English as Helen Cornaro, was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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Elisabetta Caminèr Turra
Elisabetta Caminèr Turra (29 July 1751 – 7 June 1796), was a Venetian writer.
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Emilio Vedova
Emilio Vedova (9 August 1919 – 25 October 2006) was a modern Italian painter.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Enrico Dandolo
Enrico Dandolo (anglicised as Henry Dandolo and Latinized as Henricus Dandulus; – May/June 1205) was the doge of Venice from 1192 until his death.
Episcopal see
An episcopal see is, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
Ercole Olgeni
Ercole Olgeni (11 December 1883 – 14 July 1947) was an Italian rower, born in Venice, who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (born Ermanno Wolf) (January 12, 1876 – January 21, 1948) was an Italian composer and teacher.
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Erminio Dones
Erminio Dones (12 December 1882 – 6 May 1945) was an Italian rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.
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Eruv
An eruv (עירוב,, also transliterated as eiruv or erub, plural: eruvin or eruvim) is a ritual halakhic enclosure made for the purpose of allowing activities which are normally prohibited on Shabbat (due to the prohibition of hotzaah mereshut lereshut), specifically: carrying objects from a private domain to a semi-public domain (carmelit), and transporting objects four cubits or more within a semi-public domain.
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Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
Euronews
Euronews (stylised in lowercase) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
European economic interest grouping
A European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) is a type of legal entity of the European corporate law created on 1985-07-25 under European Community (EC) Council Regulation 2137/85.
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European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation
The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) is an interdisciplinary centre covering the area of human rights education and research formed by 41 universities from all European Union member states.
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Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St.
Exarch
An exarch (from Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος exarchos) was the holder of any of various historical offices, some of them being political or military and others being ecclesiastical.
Exarchate of Ravenna
The Exarchate of Ravenna (Exarchatus Ravennatis; Εξαρχάτον τής Ραβέννας), also known as the Exarchate of Italy, was an administrative district of the Byzantine Empire comprising, between the 6th and 8th centuries, the territories under the jurisdiction of the exarch of Italy (exarchus Italiae) resident in Ravenna.
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Exploration
Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery.
Extermination camp
Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust.
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.
Fall of Constantinople
The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire.
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Famagusta
Famagusta, also known by several other names, is a city on the east coast of the de facto state Northern Cyprus.
Favaro Veneto
Favaro Veneto is an urban part of the comune (city) of Venice, in the Province of Venice, Veneto, northeastern Italy.
Feast of the Annunciation
The Feast of the Annunciation (the Annunciation of the Mother of God) commemorates the visit of the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, during which he informed her that she would be the mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
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Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. ("Italian State Railways JSC"; previously only Ferrovie dello Stato, hence the initialism FS) is Italy's national state-owned railway holding company that manages transport, infrastructure, real estate services and other services in Italy and other European countries.
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Ferry
A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.
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Festa del Redentore
The Festa del Redentore is an event held in Venice the third Sunday of July where fireworks play an important role.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.
Flood barrier
A flood barrier, surge barrier or storm surge barrier is a specific type of floodgate, designed to prevent a storm surge or spring tide from flooding the protected area behind the barrier.
Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany. Venice and Florence are capitals of former nations and world Heritage Sites in Italy.
Fondo Ambiente Italiano
The Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI) is the National Trust of Italy.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Forza Italia (2013)
The name is not usually translated into English: forza is the second-person singular imperative of ''forzare'', in this case translating to "to compel" or "to press", and so means something like "Forward, Italy", "Come on, Italy" or "Go, Italy!".
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Four Evangelists
In Christian tradition, the Four Evangelists are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the authors attributed with the creation of the four canonical Gospel accounts.
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Fourth Crusade
The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III.
Francesco Borgato
Francesco Borgato (born September 5, 1990 in Venice) is an Italian recording artist, dancer, choreographer, ex-member of Ukrainian pop group Kazaky.
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Francesco Cavalli
Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period.
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Francesco Guardi
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (5 October 1712 – 1 January 1793) was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School.
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Frederick Rolfe
Frederick William Rolfe (surname pronounced), better known as Baron Corvo (Italian for "Crow"), and also calling himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe (22 July 1860 – 25 October 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric.
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Fulvio Roiter
Fulvio Roiter (1 November 1926 – 18 April 2016) was an Italian photographer.
Ganvie
Ganvie is a lake village in Benin, Africa, lying in Lake Nokoué, near Cotonou.
Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. Venice and Genoa are capitals of former nations, Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy and world Heritage Sites in Italy.
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Genre painting
Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities.
Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
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Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.
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Gian Francesco Malipiero
Gian Francesco Malipiero (18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.
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Giorgione
Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco (Zorzi; 1477–78 or 1473–74 – 17 September 1510), known as Giorgione (Zorzon), was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties.
Giovanni Battista Meduna
Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Meduna (11 Jun 1800 – 27 April 1886), knight and Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, was an Italian architect from Venice.
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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes.
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (5 March 1696 – 27 March 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
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Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 29 November 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli (/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist.
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Giovanni Paramithiotti
Giovanni Paramithiotti was an Italian sporting director of Albanian origins.
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Giovanni Picchi
Giovanni Picchi (1571 or 1572 – 17 May 1643) was an Italian composer, organist, lutenist, and harpsichordist of the early Baroque era.
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Girandole
A girandole is an ornamental branched candle holder consisting of several lights that may be on a stand or mounted on the wall, either by itself or attached to a mirror.
Girolamo Dalla Casa
Girolamo Dalla Casa, also known as Hieronymo de Udene, was an Italian composer, instrumentalist, and writer of the late Renaissance.
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Giudecca
Giudecca (Zueca) is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, in northern Italy. Venice and Giudecca are historic Jewish communities and islands of the Venetian Lagoon.
Giudecca Canal
The Giudecca Canal (Canal de ła Zueca) is a body of water that flows into the San Marco basin in Venice, Italy.
Giuliana Camerino
Giuliana Camerino (Coen; December 8, 1920 – May 10, 2010) was an Italian fashion designer who founded the Roberta di Camerino fashion house in Venice, the only major Italian fashion brand to be based in the historic seafaring and trading city.
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Giuseppe Cipriani (racing driver)
Giuseppe Cipriani (born 9 June 1965) is an Italian racing driver and businessman.
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Giuseppe Santomaso
Giuseppe "Bepi" Santomaso (1907 – 1990) was an Italian painter and educator.
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Giuseppe Sinopoli
Giuseppe Sinopoli (2 November 1946 – 20 April 2001) was an Italian conductor and composer.
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Giuseppe Volpi
Giuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata (19 November 1877 – 16 November 1947) was an Italian businessman and politician.
Global News
Global News is the news and current affairs division of the Canadian Global Television Network.
Golden bull
A golden bull or chrysobull was a decree issued by Byzantine emperors and monarchs in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Gondola
The gondola (góndoła) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon.
Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.
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Grand Canal (Venice)
The Grand Canal (Canal Grande, locally and informally Canalazzo; Canal Grando, locally usually Canałaso) is the largest channel in Venice, Italy, forming one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
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Grand Tour
The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old).
Grandi Stazioni
Grandi Stazioni S.p.A. (Great Stations) is a member company of Italy's Ferrovie dello Stato (State Railways) group.
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Great Council of Venice
The Great Council or Major Council (Maggior Consiglio; Mazor Consegio) was a political organ of the Republic of Venice between 1172 and 1797.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.
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Hegemony
Hegemony is the political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states, either regional or global.
Henk Ovink
Henk Ovink (born 8 November 1967, in Doetinchem, Netherlands) is a Dutch water advocate and flood expert.
Henry James
Henry James (–) was an American-British author.
High Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that lasted from AD 1000 to 1300.
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High Renaissance
In art history, the High Renaissance was a short period of the most exceptional artistic production in the Italian states, particularly Rome, capital of the Papal States, and in Florence, during the Italian Renaissance.
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Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Hippodrome of Constantinople
The Hippodrome of Constantinople (Hippódromos tēs Kōnstantinoupóleōs; Circus Maximus Constantinopolitanus; Hipodrom), was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.
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Histoire de ma vie
Histoire de ma vie (The Story of My Life) is both the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th-century Italian adventurer.
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Historical fantasy
Historical fantasy is a category of fantasy and genre of historical fiction that incorporates fantastic elements (such as magic) into a more "realistic" narrative.
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History of the Jews in Venice
The history of the Jewish community of Venice, which is the capital of the Veneto region of Italy has been well known since the medieval era.
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Holy Land
The Holy Land is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern bank of the Jordan River, traditionally synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine.
Horatio Brown
Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (16 February 1854 – 19 August 1926) was a Scottish historian who specialized in the history of Venice and Italy.
Horses of Saint Mark
The Horses of Saint Mark (Cavalli di San Marco), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing).
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House numbering
House numbering is the system of giving a unique number to each building in a street or area, with the intention of making it easier to locate a particular building.
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HuffPost
HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.
Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a temperate climate type characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters.
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Huns
The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.
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Hypatos
(ὕπατος;: ὕπατοι) and the variant (ἀπὸ ὑπάτων) was a Byzantine court dignity, originally the Greek translation of Latin consul (the literal meaning of is 'the supreme one', which reflects the office, but not the etymology of 'consul').
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, called in English Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus, is a book said to be by Francesco Colonna.
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Il Gazzettino
Il Gazzettino is an Italian daily local newspaper, based in Mestre, Italy a borough of Venice.
Il Sole 24 Ore
Il Sole 24 Ore (English: "The Sun 24 Hours") is the Italian financial newspaper of record, owned by Confindustria, the Italian employers' federation.
Impacts of tourism
Tourism impacts tourist destinations in both positive and negative ways, encompassing economic, political, socio-cultural, environmental, and psychological dimensions.
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In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust.
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Independent politician
An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Inter Milan
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy.
Interdict
In Catholic canon law, an interdict is an ecclesiastical censure, or ban that prohibits certain persons or groups from participating in particular rites, or that the rites and services of the church are prohibited in certain territories for a limited or extended time.
International Business Times
The International Business Times is an American online newspaper that publishes five national editions in four languages.
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International trade
International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services.
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Inuit
Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
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Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities (Le città invisibili) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino.
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Ippolito Ciera
Ippolito Ciera (fl. 1546–1561) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, active at Treviso and Venice.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Isola di San Michele
The Island of San Michele (isola di San Michele,; ìxoła de San Michièl) is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, Veneto, northern Italy. Venice and Isola di San Michele are islands of the Venetian Lagoon.
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Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. Venice and Istanbul are capitals of former nations.
Istria
Istria (Croatian and Slovene: Istra; Italian and Venetian: Istria) is the largest peninsula to border the Adriatic Sea.
Istrian stone
Istrian stone, pietra d'Istria, the characteristic group of building stones in the architecture of Venice, Istria and Dalmatia, is a dense type of impermeable limestone that was quarried in Istria, nowadays Croatia; between Portorož and Pula.
Italian fashion
Italy is one of the leading countries in fashion design, alongside France and the United Kingdom.
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Italian Journey
Italian Journey (in the German original: Italienische Reise) is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's report on his travels to Italy from 1786 to 1788 that was published in 1816 & 1817.
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Italian National Institute of Statistics
The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istituto nazionale di statistica; Istat) is the primary source of official statistics in Italy.
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Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Italian Wars
The Italian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and Mediterranean Sea.
Italic type
In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting.
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (also,;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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The Italy national football team (Nazionale di calcio dell'Italia) has represented Italy in men's international football since its first match in 1910.
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The Italy women's national football team has represented Italy in international women's football since their inception in 1968.
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Ivano Bordon
Ivano Bordon (born 13 April 1951) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Jacopo Riccati
Jacopo Francesco Riccati (28 May 1676 – 15 April 1754) was a Venetian mathematician and jurist from Venice.
Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline A. Carey (born October 9, 1964).
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Jan Morris
Catharine Jan MorrisJan Morris, Paul Clements, University of Wales Press, 2008, p. 7 (born James Humphry Morris; 2 October 192620 November 2020) was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer.
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
Jean Antoine de Baïf (19 February 1532 – 19 September 1589) was a French poet and member of the Pléiade.
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Jewish Virtual Library
The Jewish Virtual Library (JVL, formerly known as JSOURCE) is an online encyclopedia published by the American foreign policy analyst Mitchell Bard's non-profit organization American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE).
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.
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John Berendt
John Berendt (born December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era.
John the Deacon (Venetian chronicler)
John the Deacon (Giovanni Diacono or Giovanni da Venezia; 940–45 – died after 1018) was a Venetian deacon, secretary to the doge of Venice and a chronicler.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.
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Jonathan Keates
Jonathan B. Keates FRSL (born 1946) is an English writer, biographer, novelist and former chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund.
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Jyllands-Posten
(English: The Morning Newspaper "The Jutland Post"), commonly shortened to or JP, is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kingdom of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.
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Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)
The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia; Royaume d'Italie) was a kingdom in Northern Italy (formerly the Italian Republic) that was a client state of Napoleon's French Empire.
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Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
The Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (Regnum Langobardiae et Venetiae), commonly called the "Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom" (Regno Lombardo-Veneto; Königreich Lombardo-Venetien), was a constituent land (crown land) of the Austrian Empire from 1815 to 1866.
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Kushiel's Chosen
Kushiel's Chosen is a historical fantasy/alternate history novel by American writer Jacqueline Carey.
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La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice ("The Phoenix") is a historic opera house in Venice, Italy.
La Pléiade
La Pléiade was a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf.
Lake Garda
Lake Garda (Lago di Garda,, or (Lago) Benaco,; Lach de Garda; Ƚago de Garda) is the largest lake in Italy.
Lancet window
A lancet window is a tall, narrow window with a sharp lancet pointed arch at its top.
Latin Empire
The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from the Byzantine Empire.
Lübeck
Lübeck (Low German: Lübęk or Lübeek ˈlyːbeːk; Latin: Lubeca), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany.
Lega Basket Serie A
The Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) is a professional men's club basketball league that has been organised in Italy since 1920.
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Lega Nord
Lega Nord (LN; Northern League), whose complete name is italic (Northern League for the Independence of Padania), is a right-wing, federalist, populist and conservative political party in Italy.
Leo III the Isaurian
Leo III the Isaurian (Leōn ho Isauros; Leo Isaurus; 685 – 18 June 741), also known as the Syrian, was Byzantine Emperor from 717 until his death in 741 and founder of the Isaurian dynasty.
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Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.
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Leon of Modena
Leon de Modena or in Hebrew name Yehudah Aryeh Mi-Modena (1571–1648) was a Jewish scholar born in Venice to a family whose ancestors migrated to Italy after an expulsion of Jews from France.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Landon's writings are emblematic of the transition from Romanticism to Victorian literature.
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Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
Life on the Lagoons
Life on the Lagoons, which deals with the history and topography of the watery area around the city of Venice, is the first book by the Scottish historian Horatio Brown.
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List of bridges in Venice
The historic center of Venice is made up of 121 islands linked by 435 bridges.
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List of buildings and structures in Venice
This is a list of buildings and structures in Venice, Italy.
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List of car-free islands
This is a list of car-free islands: islands inhabited by humans which have legally restricted or eliminated vehicle traffic from their territories.
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List of churches in Venice
This is a complete list of churches in Venice classified by "sestiere" in which the city is divided.
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List of explorers
The following is a list of explorers.
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List of islands of Italy
This is a list of islands of Italy.
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List of oldest companies
This list of the oldest companies in the world includes brands and companies, excluding associations and educational, government, or religious organizations.
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List of painters and architects of Venice
The list of painters and architects of Venice includes notable painters and architects who have a significant connection to the Italian city of Venice.
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List of World Heritage in Danger
The List of World Heritage in Danger is compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) through the World Heritage Committee according to Article 11.4 of the World Heritage Convention,Full title: Convention concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage which was established in 1972 to designate and manage World Heritage Sites.
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Little Venice
Little Venice is an affluent residential district in West London, England, around the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, the Regent's Canal, and the entrance to Paddington Basin.
Live Science
Live Science is a science news website.
Livery
A livery is an identifying design, such as a uniform, ornament, symbol or insignia that designates ownership or affiliation, often found on an individual or vehicle.
Lombards
The Lombards or Longobards (Longobardi) were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774.
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Lorenzo Da Ponte (10 March 174917 August 1838) was an Italian, later American, opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest.
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Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Luca Zordan
Luca Zordan is a photographer based in Europe who specializes in photographing children.
Ludovico de Luigi
Ludovico De Luigi (born 11 November 1933) is a contemporary Italian sculptor and painter born and living in Venice, Italy.
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Luigi Brugnaro
Luigi Brugnaro (born 13 September 1961) is an Italian conservative politician and entrepreneur who has been the mayor of Venice, since taking office on 15 June 2015.
Luigi Nono
Luigi Nono (29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music.
Luthier
A luthier is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments.
Magister militum
Magister militum (Latin for "master of soldiers";: magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the late Roman Empire, dating from the reign of Constantine the Great.
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Malamocco
Malamocco (Małamoco) was the first, and for a long time, the only, settlement on the Lido of Venice barrier island of the Lagoon of Venice. Venice and Malamocco are capitals of former nations.
Mannerism
Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.
Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927.
Marcello Tegalliano
Marcello Tegalliano (Latin: Marcellus Tegalianus; died 726) was, according to tradition, the second Doge of Venice (717–726).
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Marco Antonio Bragadin
Marco Antonio Bragadin, also Marcantonio Bragadin (21 April 1523 – 17 August 1571), was a Venetian lawyer and military officer of the Republic of Venice.
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Marco Polo
Marco Polo (8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
Marcomanni
The Marcomanni were a Germanic people.
Marghera
Marghera is a municipalità (borough) of the comune of Venice, Italy.
Marietta Zanfretta
Marietta Zanfretta (31 August 1832 – 8 February 1898), known as Madame Siegrist, was an Italian tightrope dancer who found success in the United States.
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Maritime republics
The maritime republics (repubbliche marinare), also called merchant republics (repubbliche mercantili), were Italian thalassocratic port cities which, starting from the Middle Ages, enjoyed political autonomy and economic prosperity brought about by their maritime activities.
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Mark the Evangelist
Mark the Evangelist (Koinē Greek: Μᾶρκος, romanized: Mârkos), also known as John Mark (Koinē Greek: Ἰωάννης Μάρκος, romanized: Iōannēs Mârkos; Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ, romanized: Yōḥannān) or Saint Mark, is the person who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark.
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Marseille
Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel ''The Group'', her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman.
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Mauro Numa
Mauro Numa (born 8 November 1961 in Mestre) is an Italian fencer and one of the strongest during the 1980s.His career started very early and in 1979, at 18, he was included in the Foil's Italian Team.
Mayor of Venice
The Mayor of Venice (Italian: sindaco di Venezia) is an elected politician who, along with the Venice City Council of 36 members, is accountable for the strategic government of the municipality of Venice, Veneto, Italy.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Mehmed II
Mehmed II (translit; II.,; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (lit; Fâtih Sultan Mehmed), was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February 1451 to May 1481.
Mestre
Mestre is a borough of the comune of Venice on the mainland opposite the historical island city in the region of Veneto, Italy.
Metropolitan City of Venice
The Metropolitan City of Venice (città metropolitana di Venezia) is a metropolitan city in the Veneto region of Italy, one of ten metropolitan cities in Italy.
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Miami
Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.
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Michael Dibdin
Michael Dibdin (21 March 1947 – 30 March 2007) was a British crime fiction writer, best known for inventing Aurelio Zen, the principal character in 11 crime novels set in Italy.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Ministero degli affari esteri e della cooperazione internazionale or MAECI) is the foreign ministry of the government of the Italian Republic.
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Moldovans
Moldovans, sometimes referred to as Moldavians (moldoveni), are a Romanian-speaking ethnic group and the largest ethnic group of the Republic of Moldova (75.1% of the population as of 2014) and a significant minority in Romania, Italy, Ukraine and Russia.
Monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).
MOSE
MOSE (translation) is a project intended to protect the city of Venice, Italy, and the Venetian Lagoon from flooding.
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MSC Opera
MSC Opera is a cruise ship built in 2004, carrying 2,679 passengers in 1,071 cabins, and with a crew complement of approximately 728, currently operated by Swiss company MSC Cruises.
Murano
Murano is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. Venice and Murano are islands of the Venetian Lagoon.
Music of Italy
In Italy, music has traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national cultures and ethnic identity and holds an important position in society and in politics.
Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Venice and Naples are capitals of former nations, Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy and world Heritage Sites in Italy.
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
National Gallery
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England.
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Near East
The Near East is a transcontinental region around the East Mediterranean encompassing parts of West Asia, the Balkans, and North Africa, specifically the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace, and Egypt.
New Julfa
New Julfa (نو جلفا, Now Jolfā, or جلفای نو, Jolfâ-ye Now; Նոր Ջուղա, Nor Jugha) is the Armenian quarter of Isfahan, Iran, located along the south bank of the Zayanderud.
Newsweek
Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.
Niccolò Cassana
Niccolò Cassana (often called Nicoletto; 1659–1714) was an Italian painter born in Venice and active during the late-Baroque.
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Nikephoros I
Nikephoros I (Νικηφόρος; Nicephorus; 750 – 26 July 811) was Byzantine emperor from 802 to 811.
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
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Nuremberg
Nuremberg (Nürnberg; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 544,414 (2023) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
Oar
An oar is an implement used for water-borne propulsion.
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Oderzo
Oderzo (Opitergium; Oderso) is a comune, with a population of 20,003, in the province of Treviso, in the Italian region of Veneto. Venice and Oderzo are cities and towns in Veneto.
Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. Venice and Odesa are historic Jewish communities.
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Odoacer
Odoacer (– 15 March 493 AD), also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a barbarian soldier and statesman from the Middle Danube who deposed the Western Roman child emperor Romulus Augustulus and became the ruler of Italy (476–493).
Ogee
An ogee is an object, element, or curve—often seen in architecture and building trades—that has a serpentine- or extended S-shape (sigmoid).
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Oil campaign chronology of World War II
The oil campaign chronology of World War II lists bombing missions and related events regarding the petroleum/oil/lubrication (POL) facilities that supplied Nazi Germany or those Germany tried to capture in Operation Edelweiss.
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Oligarchy
Oligarchy is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people.
Online Etymology Dictionary
The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.
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Operation Bowler
Operation Bowler was an air attack on Venice harbour by Allied aircraft on 21 March 1945, as part of the Italian campaign in World War II.
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Orient
The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world.
Orso Ipato
Orso Ipato (Ursus Hypatus; died 737) was, by tradition, the third Doge of Venice (726–737) and the first historically known.
Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy (and Malta from until the creation of the Exarchate of Malta in 2021), officially the Sacred Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy and Exarchate of Southern Europe (Sacra Arcidiocesi Ortodossa d'Italia ed Esarcato per l'Europa Meridionale), is a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople with its see in Venice.
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Ostrogothic Kingdom
The Ostrogothic Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of Italy (Regnum Italiae), was a barbarian kingdom established by the Germanic Ostrogoths that controlled Italy and neighbouring areas between 493 and 553.
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Othello
Othello (full title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, around 1603.
Ottaviano Petrucci
Ottaviano Petrucci (Fossombrone, 18 June 1466 – Venice, 7 May 1539) was an Italian printer.
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Ottoman architecture
Ottoman architecture is an architectural style or tradition that developed under the Ottoman Empire over a long period, undergoing some significant changes during its history.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Ottoman Turks
The Ottoman Turks (Osmanlı Türkleri) were a Turkic ethnic group.
Ottoman–Venetian wars
The Ottoman–Venetian wars were a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice that started in 1396 and lasted until 1718.
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Outline of Italy
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Italy: Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe, located primarily upon the Italian Peninsula.
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Overtourism
Overtourism is the congestion or overcrowding from an excess of tourists, resulting in conflicts with locals.
Padua
Padua (Padova; Pàdova, Pàdoa or Pàoa) is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. Venice and Padua are cities and towns in Veneto.
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Padua–Treviso–Venice metropolitan area
The Padua–Treviso–Venice metropolitan area (PaTreVe) or Venice city–region is the urban agglomeration centred on the cities of Padova, Treviso, and Venice in the Veneto region of northeast Italy.
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Palasport Giuseppe Taliercio
Palasport Giuseppe Taliercio is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Mestre, Venice, Italy.
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Palazzo Corner della Ca' Grande
Palazzo Corner della Ca' Granda, also called Ca' Corner della Ca' Granda or simply Palazzo Corner or Palazzo Cornaro, is a Renaissance-style palace located between the Casina delle Rose and the Rio di San Maurizio (Venice), across the Grand Canal from the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni (Peggy Guggenheim Collection), in the city of Venice, Italy.
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Palazzo del Cinema di Venezia
Palazzo del Cinema di Venezia is the place that hosts the Venice Film Festival and congress activities, located in Lido di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
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Palazzo Ferro Fini
The Palazzo Ferro Fini is a historical building in Venice, Italy.
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Palembang
Palembang (Palembang: Pelémbang, Jawi) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sumatra.
Paolo Lucio Anafesto
Paolo Lucio Anafesto (Paulucius Anafestus) was, according to tradition, the first Doge of Venice, serving from 697 to 717.
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Paolo Sarpi
Paolo Sarpi (14 August 1552 – 15 January 1623) was a Venetian historian, prelate, scientist, canon lawyer, polymath and statesman active on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period of its successful defiance of the papal interdict (1605–1607) and its war (1615–1617) with Austria over the Uskok pirates.
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese (also), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573).
Parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese.
Patriarchate of Venice
The Patriarchate of Venice (Patriarchatus Venetiarum), also sometimes called the Archdiocese of Venice, is a patriarchate of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, located in the Metropolitan City of Venice.
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Paul (exarch)
Paul (Paulus; Paulos; before 717/18 – 726/27) was a senior Byzantine official under Leo III the Isaurian, serving as the strategos of Sicily, and then as the Exarch of Ravenna from 723 until his death.
Pauly & C. – Compagnia Venezia Murano
Pauly & C. - Compagnia Venezia Murano is one of the oldest glass factories of Murano: it was founded more than 150 years ago.
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Peace of Pressburg (1805)
The Peace of Pressburg was signed in Pressburg (today Bratislava) on 26 December 1805 between French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, as a consequence of the French victory over the Russians and Austrians at the Battle of Austerlitz (2 December).
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Pedestrian zone
Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town restricted to use by people on foot or human-powered transport such as bicycles, with non-emergency motor traffic not allowed.
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Pellestrina
Pellestrina is an island in northern Italy, forming a barrier between the southern Venetian Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea, lying south west of the Lido. Venice and Pellestrina are islands of the Venetian Lagoon.
Peninsula
A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most sides.
Pentapolis
A pentapolis (from Greek πεντα- penta-, 'five' and πόλις polis, 'city') is a geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities.
People Mover (Venice)
The People Mover in Venice is an automated elevated shuttle train, which connects the Piazzale Roma—the major transportation hub of the city—and the Tronchetto island with a car parking facility.
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Pepin of Italy
Pepin or Pippin (777 – 8 July 810) was King of Italy from 781 until his death in 810.
Persian carpet
A Persian carpet (translit) or Persian rug (translit),Savory, R., Carpets,(Encyclopaedia Iranica); accessed January 30, 2007.
Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London.
Philippe Sollers
Philippe Sollers (born Philippe Joyaux; 28 November 1936 – 5 May 2023) was a French writer and critic.
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Piave (river)
The Piave (Plavis, German: Ploden) is a river in northern Italy.
Piazza San Marco
Piazza San Marco (Piasa San Marco), often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square").
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Piazzale Roma
Piazzale Roma (Piasal Roma) is a square in Venice, Italy, at the entrance of the city, at the end of the Ponte della Libertà.
Pietro Aretino
Pietro Aretino (19 or 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics.
Pietro Bembo
Pietro Bembo, (Petrus Bembus; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was a Venetian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Pietro Cesare Alberti
Pietro Cesare Alberti (1608–1655) — later Peter Caesar Alburtus — was a Venetian immigrant to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, commonly regarded as the first Italian American settler at least in what is now New York State.
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Pietro Guarneri
Pietro Guarnieri (14 April 1695 – 7 April 1762) was an Italian luthier.
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Pietro Longhi
Pietro Longhi (5 November 1701 – 8 May 1785) was a Venetian painter of contemporary genre scenes of life.
Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.
Piracy
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.
Pisa
Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.
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Plague (disease)
Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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Po (river)
The Po is the longest river in Italy.
Polenta
Polenta is an Italian dish of boiled cornmeal that was historically made from other grains.
Ponte degli Scalzi
The Ponte degli Scalzi (or Ponte dei Scalsi, in Venetian; literally, "bridge of the barefoot "), is one of only four bridges in Venice to span the Grand Canal.
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Ponte dell'Accademia
The Ponte dell'Accademia is one of only four bridges to span the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.
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Ponte della Costituzione
The Ponte della Costituzione (Constitution Bridge) is the fourth bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.
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Ponte della Libertà
The Ponte della Libertà (Liberty Bridge) is a road bridge connecting the islands that form the historical centre of the city of Venice to the mainland part of the city.
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Pontoon boat
A pleasure boat with two lengthwise pontoons A pontoon boat is a flattish boat that relies on floats to remain buoyant.
Pope
The pope (papa, from lit) is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church.
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Pope Clement XIII
Pope Clement XIII (Clemens XIII; Clemente XIII; 7 March 1693 – 2 February 1769), born Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 July 1758 to his death in February 1769.
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Pope Eugene IV
Pope Eugene IV (Eugenius IV; Eugenio IV; 1383 – 23 February 1447), born Gabriele Condulmer, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 March 1431 to his death, in February 1447.
Pope Gregory II
Pope Gregory II (Gregorius II; 669 – 11 February 731) was the bishop of Rome from 19 May 715 to his death.
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Pope Gregory XII
Pope Gregory XII (Gregorius XII; Gregorio XII; – 18 October 1417), born Angelo Corraro, Corario," or Correr, was head of the Catholic Church from 30 November 1406 to 4 July 1415.
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Pope Paul II
Pope Paul II (Paulus II; Paolo II; 23 February 1417 – 26 July 1471), born Pietro Barbo, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 30 August 1464 to his death.
Pope Paul V
Pope Paul V (Paulus V; Paolo V) (17 September 1550 – 28 January 1621), born Camillo Borghese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 16 May 1605 to his death, in January 1621.
Pope Pius II
Pope Pius II (Pius PP., Pio II), born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (Aeneas Silvius Bartholomeus; 18 October 1405 – 14 August 1464), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 August 1458 to his death.
Pope Zachary
Pope Zachary (Zacharias; 679 – March 752) was the bishop of Rome from 28 November 741 to his death.
Port of Venice
The Port of Venice (Porto di Venezia) is a port serving Venice, northeastern Italy.
Portogruaro
Portogruaro (Porto, Puart) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, northern Italy. Venice and Portogruaro are cities and towns in Veneto and municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Venice.
Postal stationery
A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as a stamped envelope, letter sheet, postal card, lettercard, aerogram or wrapper, with an imprinted stamp or inscription indicating that a specific rate of postage or related service has been prepaid.
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Printing press
A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
Promiscuity
Promiscuity is the practice of engaging in sexual activity frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners.
Prosecco
Prosecco is an Italian DOC or DOCG white wine produced in a large area spanning nine provinces in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions, and named after the village of Prosecco, in the province of Trieste, Italy.
Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Punctuation
Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood.
Putto
A putto (plural putti) is a figure in a work of art depicted as a chubby male child, usually naked and very often winged.
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Qingdao
Qingdao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shandong Province of China.
Quadi
The Quadi were a Germanic.
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Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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Regional Council of Veneto
The Regional Council of Veneto (Consiglio Regionale del Veneto) is the regional parliament of Veneto.
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Regions of Italy
The regions of Italy (regioni d'Italia) are the first-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, constituting its second NUTS administrative level.
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Regulation (European Union)
A regulation is a legal act of the European Union which becomes immediately enforceable as law in all member states simultaneously.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.
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Republic of Ancona
The Republic of Ancona was a medieval commune and maritime republic on the Adriatic coast of modern-day Italy, notable for its economic development and maritime trade, particularly with the Byzantine Empire and Eastern Mediterranean, although somewhat confined by Venetian supremacy on the sea.
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Republic of Genoa
The Republic of Genoa (Repúbrica de Zêna; Repubblica di Genova; Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast.
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Republic of Noli
The Republic of Noli (Repubblica di Noli; Repubbrica de Nöi) was an Italian maritime republic that was centred on the city of Noli, in Liguria, and existed from 1192 to 1797.
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Republic of Pisa
The Republic of Pisa (Repubblica di Pisa) was an independent state existing from the 11th to the 15th century and centered on the Tuscan city of Pisa.
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Republic of Ragusa
The Republic of Ragusa (Republica de Ragusa; Respublica Ragusina; Repubblica di Ragusa; Dubrovačka Republika; Repùblega de Raguxa) was an aristocratic maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik (Ragusa in Italian and Latin; Raguxa in Venetian) in South Dalmatia (today in southernmost Croatia) that carried that name from 1358 until 1808.
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Republic of San Marco
The Republic of San Marco (Repubblica di San Marco) or the Venetian Republic (Repùblega Vèneta) was an Italian revolutionary state which existed for 17 months in 1848–1849.
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Republic of Venice
The Republic of Venice, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Revolutionary
A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates for, a revolution.
Reyer Venezia
S.S.P. Reyer Venezia Mestre, commonly known as Reyer Venezia or simply Reyer, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Venice, Veneto.
Rialto
The Rialto is a central area of Venice, Italy, in the sestiere of San Polo.
Rialto Bridge
The Rialto Bridge (Ponte di Rialto; Ponte de Rialto) is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.
Riccati equation
In mathematics, a Riccati equation in the narrowest sense is any first-order ordinary differential equation that is quadratic in the unknown function.
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ROAL Motorsport
ROAL Motorsport (previously known as Ravaglia Motorsport) is an Italian auto racing team, which operated the BMW Team Italy-Spain team in the World Touring Car Championship, and currently competes as BMW Team Italia in the Italian GT Championship.
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Roberto Ravaglia
Roberto Ravaglia (born 26 May 1957) is an Italian former racing driver, who currently runs ROAL Motorsport, who operate a Chevrolet operation in the World Touring Car Championship.
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Rococo
Rococo, less commonly Roccoco, also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.
Roman Italy
Italia (in both the Latin and Italian languages), also referred to as Roman Italy, was the homeland of the ancient Romans.
Romanians
Romanians (români,; dated exonym Vlachs) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a common culture and ancestry, they speak the Romanian language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2021 Romanian census found that 89.3% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians.
Romano Scarpa
Romano Scarpa (27 September 1927 – 23 April 2005) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.
Rondò Veneziano
Rondò Veneziano is an Italian chamber orchestra, specializing in Baroque music, playing original instruments, but incorporating a rock-style rhythm section of synthesizer, bass guitar and drums, led by Maestro Gian Piero Reverberi, who is also the principal composer of all of the original Rondò Veneziano pieces.
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Rosalba Carriera
Rosalba Carriera (12 January 1673 – 15 April 1757) was an Italian Rococo painter.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
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Rustichello da Pisa
Rustichello da Pisa, also known as Rusticiano (fl. late 13th century), was an Italian romance writer in Franco-Italian language.
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Sack of Constantinople
The Sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade.
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.
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San Giacomo di Rialto
San Giacomo di Rialto is a church in the sestiere of San Polo, Venice, northern Italy.
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San Giorgio dei Greci
San Giorgio dei Greci (Saint George of the Greeks) is a church in the sestiere (neighborhood) of Castello, Venice, northern Italy.
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San Marco
San Marco is one of the six sestieri of Venice, lying in the heart of the city as the main place of Venice.
San Pietro di Castello (island)
San Pietro di Castello (San Piero de Casteło), formerly Olivolo (Olivòlo; Ołivoło), is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, forming part of the Castello sestiere. Venice and San Pietro di Castello (island) are islands of the Venetian Lagoon.
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San Polo
San Polo (San Poło) is the smallest and most central of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy, covering 86 acres (35 hectares) along the Grand Canal.
San Servolo
San Servolo is an Italian island in the Venetian Lagoon, to the southeast of San Giorgio Maggiore. Venice and San Servolo are islands of the Venetian Lagoon.
Sandolo
Sandolo in Canal Grande The sandolo is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat designed for the generally shallow waters of the Venetian Lagoon.
Sant'Elena (island)
Sant'Elena is an island of Venice. Venice and Sant'Elena (island) are islands of the Venetian Lagoon.
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Santa Croce (Venice)
Santa Croce is one of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy.
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Santa Maria della Salute
Santa Maria della Salute (Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at the Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy.
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Sarajevo
Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits.
Sarde in saor
Sarde in saor are an appetizer based on fried sardines, seasoned with sweet and sour onions, pine nuts and raisins, typical of Venetian cuisine.
Sceriman family
The Sceriman family, also referred to as the Shahremanian, Shahremanean, Shahrimanian, Shehrimanian, Shariman, or Seriman family, were a wealthy Safavid merchant family of Armenian ethnicity.
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Sea level rise
Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.
Sebastian Cabot (explorer)
Sebastian Cabot (Italian and Sebastiano Caboto,; Sebastián Caboto, Gaboto or Cabot; 1474 – December 1557) was a Venetian explorer, likely born in the Venetian Republic and a Venetian citizen.
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Sebastiano del Piombo
Sebastiano del Piombo (– 21 June 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained with the monumental forms of the Roman school.
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Sebastiano Venier
Sebastiano Venier (or Veniero) (c. 1496 – 3 March 1578) was Doge of Venice from 11 June 1577 to 3 March 1578.
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Serie B
The Serie B, officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season.
Sestiere
A sestiere (sestieri) is a subdivision of certain Italian towns and cities.
Shortbread
Shortbread or shortie is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three to four parts plain wheat flour.
Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake Day) is the final day of Shrovetide, marking the end of pre-Lent.
Shylock
Shylock is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice (1600).
Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430)
The siege of Thessalonica between 1422 and 1430 saw the Ottoman Empire, under Sultan Murad II, capture the city of Thessalonica.
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Sile (river)
The Sile (Venetian: Sil) is a 95 km river in the Veneto region in north-eastern Italy.
Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi (29 September 1936 – 12 June 2023) was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011.
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Sister city
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
Sky News
Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation.
Spice trade
The spice trade involved historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe.
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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St Mark's Basilica
The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark (Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco), commonly known as St Mark's Basilica (Basilica di San Marco; Baxéłega de San Marco), is the cathedral church of the Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cathedral of San Pietro di Castello.
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St Mark's Campanile
St Mark's Campanile (Campanile di San Marco) is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy.
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Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo
Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo is a multi-use stadium in Venice, Italy.
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Staging area
A staging area (otherwise staging base, staging facility, staging ground, staging point, or staging post) is a location in which organisms, people, vehicles, equipment, or material are assembled before use.
Stockfish
Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which are called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore.
Su e zo per i ponti
The Su e zo per i ponti (Up and Down the Bridges in the Venetian language) is a non-competitive walk held in Venice in April.
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Subsidence
Subsidence is a general term for downward vertical movement of the Earth's surface, which can be caused by both natural processes and human activities.
Suez Canal
The Suez Canal (قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt).
Sumptuary law
Sumptuary laws (from Latin sūmptuāriae lēgēs) are laws that try to regulate consumption.
Sustainable tourism
Sustainable tourism is a concept that covers the complete tourism experience, including concern for economic, social, and environmental issues as well as attention to improving tourists' experiences and addressing the needs of host communities.
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Suzhou
Suzhou (Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'', Mandarin), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major prefecture-level city in Jiangsu province, China.
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital and most populous city of Estonia.
Talmud
The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.
Thalassocracy
A thalassocracy or thalattocracy, sometimes also maritime empire, is a state with primarily maritime realms, an empire at sea, or a seaborne empire.
The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year.
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The Cambridge Modern History
The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery, published by the Cambridge University Press in England and also in the United States.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Stones of Venice (book)
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
The Travels of Marco Polo
Book of the Marvels of the World (Italian:, lit. 'The Million', possibly derived from Polo's nickname "Emilione"), in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo.
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The Verge
The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James.
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Theme (Byzantine district)
The themes or (θέματα,, singular) were the main military and administrative divisions of the middle Byzantine Empire.
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Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. Venice and Thessaloniki are historic Jewish communities.
Third Italian War of Independence
The Third Italian War of Independence (Terza guerra d'indipendenza italiana) was a war between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire fought between June and August 1866.
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Thomas F. Madden
Thomas Francis Madden (born 10 June 1960) is an American historian, a former chair of the history department at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, and director of Saint Louis University's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher.
Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tintoretto
Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school.
Tiramisu
Tiramisu (Italian: tiramisù) is an Italian dessert made of ladyfinger pastries (savoiardi) dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone and flavoured with cocoa.
Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting.
Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era.
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Tommaso Rocchi
Tommaso Rocchi (born 19 September 1977) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as striker.
Torcello
Torcello (Torcellum; Torceło) is a sparsely populated island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon, in north-eastern Italy. Venice and Torcello are islands of the Venetian Lagoon.
Trade beads
Trade beads are beads that were used as a medium of barter within and amongst communities.
Trams in Mestre
The Venice Tramway (Tranvia di Venezia) is a rubber-tired tramway (or guided bus) system forming part of the public transport system in Venice, Favaro Veneto, Mestre and Marghera, three boroughs of the city and comune of Venice, northeast Italy.
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Translohr
Translohr is a rubber-tyred tramway system, originally developed by Lohr Industrie of France and now run by a consortium of Alstom Transport and Fonds stratégique d'investissement (FSI) as newTL, which took over from Lohr in 2012.
Treaty of Campo Formio
The Treaty of Campo Formio (today Campoformido) was signed on 17 October 1797 (26 Vendémiaire VI) by Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Philipp von Cobenzl as representatives of the French Republic and the Austrian monarchy, respectively.
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Trees for Life (Scotland)
Trees for Life is a registered charity working to rewild the Scottish Highlands.
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Trenitalia France
Trenitalia France is an open-access train operator running international services between France and Italy.
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Treviso
Treviso (Trevizo tɾeˈʋizo) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Venice and Treviso are cities and towns in Veneto.
Treviso Airport
Treviso Airport, Aeroporto di Treviso A. Canova, sometimes Venice-Treviso Airport, is an international airport located west-southwest of Treviso and approximately away from the city of Venice, Italy.
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Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. Venice and Trieste are Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy, populated coastal places in Italy and port cities and towns of the Adriatic Sea.
Tronchetto
Tronchetto (also known as Isola nuova, meaning "New island") is an artificial island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, located at the westernmost tip of the main Venice island. Venice and Tronchetto are islands of the Venetian Lagoon.
Turin
Turin (Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. Venice and Turin are capitals of former nations.
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X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
Ugo Foscolo
Ugo Foscolo (6 February 177810 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was a Greek-Italian writer, revolutionary and poet.
Ukrainians
Ukrainians (ukraintsi) are a civic nation and an ethnic group native to Ukraine.
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Unification of Italy
The unification of Italy (Unità d'Italia), also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 resulted in the consolidation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
Università Iuav di Venezia
Iuav University of Venice (Università Iuav di Venezia) is a university in Venice, Italy.
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Uniworld
Uniworld Boutique River Cruises is a luxury river cruise line located in Los Angeles, California.
Van Eyck
Van Eyck or Van Eijk is a Dutch toponymic surname.
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Vaporetto
The vaporetto is a Venetian public waterbus.
Vasco da Gama
D. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (– 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the first European to reach India by sea.
Veduta
A veduta (vedute) is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista.
Velvet
Weave details visible on a purple-colored velvet fabric Velvet is a type of woven fabric with a dense, even pile that gives it a distinctive soft feel.
Venetian Arsenal
The Venetian Arsenal (Arsenale di Venezia) is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy.
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Venetian Ghetto
The Venetian Ghetto was the area of Venice in which Jews were forced to live by the government of the Venetian Republic.
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Venetian glass
Venetian glass is glassware made in Venice, typically on the island of Murano near the city.
Venetian Gothic architecture
Venetian Gothic is the particular form of Italian Gothic architecture typical of Venice, originating in local building requirements, with some influence from Byzantine architecture, and some from Islamic architecture, reflecting Venice's trading network.
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Venetian Lagoon
The Venetian Lagoon (Laguna di Venezia; Łaguna de Venesia) is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated. Venice and Venetian Lagoon are world Heritage Sites in Italy.
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Venetian language
Venetian, wider Venetian or Venetan (łengua vèneta or vèneto) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy,Ethnologue mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it.
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Venetian painting
Venetian painting was a major force in Italian Renaissance painting and beyond.
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Venetian polychoral style
The Venetian polychoral style was a type of music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras which involved spatially separate choirs singing in alternation.
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Venetian School (music)
In music history, the Venetian School was the body and work of composers working in Venice from about 1550 to around 1610, many working in the Venetian polychoral style.
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Venetic language
Venetic is an extinct Indo-European language, usually classified into the Italic subgroup, that was spoken by the Veneti people in ancient times in northeast Italy (Veneto and Friuli) and part of modern Slovenia, between the Po Delta and the southern fringe of the Alps, associated with the Este culture.
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Veneto
Veneto or the Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the north-east of the country.
Veneto Banca
Veneto Banca S.p.A. is a former Italian bank headquartered in Montebelluna, Italy and currently a wind-down unit.
Venezia FC
Venezia Football Club, commonly referred to as Venezia, is a professional Italian football club based in Venice, Veneto, that currently plays in.
Venezia Mestre railway station
Venezia Mestre railway station (Stazione di Venezia Mestre) is a junction station in the comune of Venice, Italy.
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Venezia Mestre Rugby FC
Venezia Mestre Rugby FC, also known as Casinò di Venezia for sponsorship's reasons, was an Italian rugby union club based in Venice in Veneto.
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Venezia Santa Lucia railway station
Venezia Santa Lucia (Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia) is the central station of Venice in the north-east of Italy.
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Venice (Morris book)
Venice (1960) is a celebrated book by the Welsh author Jan Morris (1926-2020) on the history, culture and meaning of Venice, Italy.
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Venice Baroque Orchestra
The Venice Baroque Orchestra is a baroque orchestra founded in 1997 by the Italian conductor and harpsichordist Andrea Marcon, based in Venice, Italy.
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Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation.
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Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy.
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Venice International University
Venice International University (VIU) is an international center for higher education and research located on the island of San Servolo, in Venice, Italy.
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Venice Lido
The Lido, or Venice Lido (Lido di Venezia), is an barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, Northern Italy; it is home to about 20,400 residents. Venice and Venice Lido are islands of the Venetian Lagoon.
Venice Marco Polo Airport
Venice Marco Polo Airport is the international airport of Venice, Italy.
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Venice of the East
The following is a list of places which have been nicknamed Venice of the East (a reference to the city of Venice, Italy).
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Venice of the North
The following is a list of settlements nicknamed Venice of the North.
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Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE) is a private luxury train service from London to Venice and other European cities.
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Venice, Alberta
Venice is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within Lac La Biche County.
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Venice, Florida
Venice is a city in Sarasota County, Florida, United States.
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Venice, Los Angeles
Venice is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Venice, Louisiana
Venice is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Venice, New York
Venice is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.
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Verona
Verona (Verona or Veròna) is a city on the River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. Venice and Verona are cities and towns in Veneto and world Heritage Sites in Italy.
Veronica Franco
Veronica Franco (1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice.
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Vicenza
Vicenza is a city in northeastern Italy. Venice and Vicenza are cities and towns in Veneto and world Heritage Sites in Italy.
Vincenzo Dandolo
Count Vincenzo Dandolo (1758–1819) was an Italian chemist and agriculturist.
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Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.
Virgilio Ranzato
Virgilio Ranzato (May 7, 1882 in Venice – April 20, 1937 in Como) was an Italian composer and violinist.
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Visigoths
The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.
Vittore Carpaccio
Vittore Carpaccio (UK: /kɑːrˈpætʃ(i)oʊ/, US: /-ˈpɑːtʃ-/, Italian: vitˈtoːre karˈpattʃo; (born between 1460 and 1465; died) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school who studied under Gentile Bellini. Carpaccio was largely influenced by the style of the early Italian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina, as well as Early Netherlandish painting.
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Volpone
Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable.
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (also), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian.
War of the First Coalition
The War of the First Coalition (Guerre de la Première Coalition) was a set of wars that several European powers fought between 1792 and 1797, initially against the constitutional Kingdom of France and then the French Republic that succeeded it.
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Water taxi
A water taxi or a water bus is a boat used to provide public or private transport, usually, but not always, in an urban environment.
Watteau in Venice
Watteau in Venice is a novel by French author Philippe Sollers published in 1991 by Editions Gallimard, later translated into English by Alberto Manguel, and then published in 1994 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Western Roman Empire
In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the western provinces of the Roman Empire, collectively, during any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern provinces by a separate, independent imperial court.
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Wharf
A wharf (or wharfs), quay (also), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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William Bedell
The Rt. Rev. William Bedell, D.D. (Uilliam Beidil; 22 September 15717 February 1642), was an English Anglican bishop who served as the 5th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1627 to 1629.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Yerevan
Yerevan (Երևան; sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia, as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.
Zakynthos
Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; Zákynthos; Zacinto) or Zante (Tzánte; from the Venetian form, traditionally Latinized as Zacynthus) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.
1629–1631 Italian plague
The Italian plague of 1629–1631, also referred to as the Great Plague of Milan, was part of the second plague pandemic that began with the Black Death in 1348 and ended in the 18th century.
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1920 Summer Olympics
The 1920 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; Spelen van de VIIe Olympiade; Spiele der VII.) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (Anvers 1920; Dutch and German: Antwerpen 1920), were an international multi-sport event held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.
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1924 Summer Olympics
The 1924 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France.
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1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad and officially branded as Seoul 1988, were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
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1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics (Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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2nd New Zealand Division
The 2nd New Zealand Division, initially the New Zealand Division, was an infantry division of the New Zealand Military Forces (New Zealand's army) during the Second World War.
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See also
420s establishments
- Condat Abbey
- Venice
420s in the Roman Empire
- Councils of Carthage
- Frankish War (428)
- Gothic revolt of Theodoric I
- Roman civil war of 425
- Roman civil war of 427-429
- Venice
5th-century establishments in Italy
- Archbishop's Chapel, Ravenna
- Aveia
- Basilica di Santo Stefano Maggiore
- Basilica of Sant'Eufemia, Milan
- Diocese of Lilybaeum
- San Vitale, Rome
- Santo Stefano, Bologna
- Venice
Car-free zones in Europe
- Clovelly
- Desert of Mount Athos
- Freetown Christiania
- Limited traffic zone
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Orta San Giulio
- Vauban, Freiburg
- Venice
- Yliopistonkatu (Turku)
Islands of the Venetian Lagoon
- Burano
- Giudecca
- Isola di San Clemente
- Isola di San Michele
- Isola di San Secondo
- La Certosa
- Lazzaretto Vecchio
- Mazzorbo
- Murano
- Pellestrina
- Poveglia
- Sacca Fisola
- Sacca Sessola
- San Francesco del Deserto
- San Giorgio Maggiore
- San Giorgio in Alga
- San Lazzaro degli Armeni
- San Marco in Boccalama
- San Pietro di Castello (island)
- San Servolo
- Sant'Andrea (Venetian Lagoon)
- Sant'Angelo della Polvere
- Sant'Elena (island)
- Sant'Erasmo
- Santa Maria della Grazia
- Santo Spirito (island)
- Sottomarina
- Torcello
- Tronchetto
- Venice
- Venice Lido
- Vignole
Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy
- Ancona
- Antium
- Anzio
- Bari
- Brindisi
- Cagliari
- Catania
- Civitavecchia
- Fiumicino
- Genoa
- Gioia Tauro
- Lampedusa
- Mazara del Vallo
- Messina
- Naples
- Nettuno
- Ostia Antica
- Palermo
- Pescara
- Porto Empedocle
- Porto Ercole
- Porto Pisano
- Porto Santo Stefano
- Ravenna
- Reggio Calabria
- Sampierdarena
- Savona
- Sestri Ponente
- Syracuse, Sicily
- Taranto
- Torre del Greco
- Trapani
- Trieste
- Venice
Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Venice
- Annone Veneto
- Campagna Lupia
- Campolongo Maggiore
- Camponogara
- Caorle
- Cavallino-Treporti
- Cavarzere
- Ceggia
- Chioggia
- Cinto Caomaggiore
- Cona, Veneto
- Concordia Sagittaria
- Dolo
- Eraclea
- Fiesso d'Artico
- Fossò
- Fossalta di Piave
- Fossalta di Portogruaro
- Gruaro
- Jesolo
- List of municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Venice
- Marcon, Veneto
- Martellago
- Meolo
- Mira, Veneto
- Mirano
- Musile di Piave
- Noale
- Noventa di Piave
- Pianiga
- Portogruaro
- Pramaggiore
- Quarto d'Altino
- Salzano
- San Donà di Piave
- San Michele al Tagliamento
- San Stino di Livenza
- Santa Maria di Sala
- Scorzè
- Spinea
- Stra
- Teglio Veneto
- Timeline of Venice
- Torre di Mosto
- Venice
- Vigonovo
Populated coastal places in Italy
- Alghero
- Augusta, Sicily
- Bagheria
- Briatico
- Cagliari
- Campo nell'Elba
- Caorle
- Capoterra
- Capraia Isola
- Carloforte
- Castellammare del Golfo
- Catanzaro
- Chioggia
- Crotone
- Lamezia Terme
- Longobardi, Calabria
- Marciana Marina
- Marzamemi
- Olbia
- Ospedaletti
- Pachino
- Palmi
- Palmi, Calabria
- Porto Azzurro
- Porto Torres
- Portoferraio
- Portopalo di Capo Passero
- Reggio Calabria
- Rimini
- Rio Marina
- Riva Ligure
- San Bartolomeo al Mare
- San Lorenzo al Mare
- Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi
- Sant'Antioco
- Santo Stefano al Mare
- Tauriana
- Torre Annunziata
- Trieste
- Venice
- Vibo Valentia
Populated places established in the 5th century
- Artik
- Aveia
- Copán
- Crawley
- Kapan
- Kyiv
- Lakshadweep
- Phnom Penh
- Ras Ngomeni
- Tartu
- Tbilisi
- Venice
- Yeghegnadzor
Port cities and towns of the Adriatic Sea
- Šibenik
- Ancona
- Bar, Montenegro
- Bari
- Barletta
- Brindisi
- Koper
- Molfetta
- Neum
- Otranto
- Pescara
- Ploče
- Rijeka
- San Benedetto del Tronto
- Split, Croatia
- Trani
- Trieste
- Venice
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice
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