Venetian Republic

Overview

The Republic of Venice, officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice, on the northeastern Italian coast. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto, over the course of its 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the major European commercial and naval powers. Initially extended in the Dogado area, during its history it annexed a large part of Northeast Italy, Istria, Dalmatia, the coasts of present-day Montenegro and Albania as well as numerous islands in the Adriatic and eastern Ionian seas. At the height of its expansion, between the 13th and 16th centuries, it also governed Crete, Cyprus, the Peloponnese, a number of Greek islands, as well as several cities and ports in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
• DETAILhistorical-basemaps (Ourednik)
• SNAPSHOT1500
• POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire86

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Italian Wars - Franco-Spanish Conflicts1521–59
  Major conflict · 750K dead
• Third Italian War1494–1559
  Major conflict · 500K dead
• First Italian War1494–98
  Major conflict · 50K dead
• Battle of Lepanto1571
  Major conflict · 50K dead
• Fourth Crusade1202–04
  Major conflict · 10K dead
• Portuguese Expansion in India1505–1660
  Significant · 500K dead
• Ottoman Conquest of Greece1453–1522
  Significant · 300K dead
• Cretan War Extended Campaigns1645–69
  Significant · 250K dead
• Venetian-Genoese Wars1257–1380
  Significant · 200K dead
• Ottoman Expansion in Aegean1453–1522
  Significant · 200K dead
• Cretan War1645–69
  Significant · 200K dead
• Ottoman-Venetian Trade Wars1489–1540
  Significant · 150K dead
• Ottoman-Venetian Wars1416–79
  Significant · 100K dead
• Cyprus War (Ottoman-Venetian)1570–73
  Significant · 100K dead
• Third Venetian-Ottoman War1570–73
  Significant · 100K dead
• Second Italian War1499–1504
  Significant · 75K dead
• Turkish-Venetian Wars1463–79
  Significant · 50K dead
• Ottoman Conquest of Crimea1475
  Significant · 50K dead
• Second Venetian-Ottoman War1537–40
  Significant · 50K dead
• Venetian-Ottoman War1499–1503
  Significant · 30K dead
• Battle of Djerba1560
  Significant · 30K dead
• War of Chioggia1379–80
  Significant · 10K dead
• Byzantine–Norman wars1081–1185
  Significant
• Byzantine–Ottoman wars1265–1453
  Significant

+ 62 more in the atlas.