PolledHistory:20-27 Oct: The Venetian Republic

 Hello! After the poll, we got no results so I just took a random one out of the three. 

Today's episode is about a maritime European power not always represented - the Venetian republic centered around the city of Venice. It has a lengthy history land at its height it was a large Adriatic power that was commercially influential.

SVenice began as a duchy and was partially under Eastern Roman power until in 726 several Italian provinces under Eastern Roman control broke away because of the iconoclasm - the deletion and smashing of cultural mosaics. 

In 812, the new doge (leader) of Venice moved the capital to what would be Venice, near the top of the Adriatic. Venice would have many trade links with the Eastern Roman (Byz.) Empire but things got worse when the Byzantine emperor expelled Venetian merchants which started a war.

Venetian-Byzantine enmity escalated and soon in 1204 the Venetians escorted the crusaders not to the intended goal but to Constantinople and the citu was sacked. This made Venice increasingly powerful and Venice would proceed to gain links with the eastern mediterranean.

Venice's merchant republic rival, Genoa, on the other side of Italy (Venice is on the very northeast of the Italian peninsula while Genoa on the northwest), had a rivalry. The Venetians won at Acre in the Levant but Genoa did restore Byzantine power by overthrowing the Latin Empire (the empire the Venetians set up after the crusade they escorted). Venice had a huge fleet and the Venetian Arsenal - a huge industrial complex to build ships.

Venice and Genoa would continue to fight and in the 15th century came Venice's greatest period as an empire. Venice finally earned maritime hegemony in one final battle with the Genoese. Venice became a prosperous maritime republic. During this t

However, a new threat was coming - the Ottoman empire. The Turks gained control of Venetian cyprus and the city of Venice's population declined because of a plague by 1581. By the 1600s, Venice's power had declined. More wars with the Ottomans ended Venetian control on Crete. Finally, in 1796, the Venetian fleet was too small and none other than Napoleon Bonaparte forced the last doge, Ludovico Manin, to abdicate.

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