Tag: 700s
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Episode 34 — The Duchy of the Venetians
As the Venetians came into their own, politics within the dogado was turbulent, factional, and often violent. Most of the early doges met a rather sticky end.
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Episode 33 — The Demise of the Exarchate
The events around the demise of the Exarchate of Ravenna only involved the Venetians marginally. It is nevertheless important to the history of Venice.
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Episode 32 — The first doges of Venice
Who were the first doges of Venice, and when and why did the Venetians decide to chose their own leaders? TL;DR It wasn’t as we’ve been told it was.
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Episode 31 — The world of Venetia
The Venetians fleeing the Lombards migrated into the lagoons along the Adriatic coast. Lagoons in the plural, as there were several, but what kind of environment was that, why was it there, and how did the Venetian settle in?
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Episode 30 — Venetia Maritima
The invasion of the Lombards in 568 set in motion another migration. A part of the people of the Byzantine province of Venetia fled the Lombards, and headed for the areas which remained under the control of Constantinople.
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Episode 28 — The early sources
The principal primary sources for the earliest period of Venice are not many, but their history is rather messy.
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Episode 4 — Becoming a state
Venice appeared as a kind of, but not quite, sovereign polity in the late 700s and 800s. Venetian society, no longer governed directly by Constantinople, nor really independent, had to survive between the two super-powers of their time, Byzantium and the Carolingian Empire.
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Episode 3 — The Roman and Byzantine period
The origins of Venice go back to Roman times, long before there was a Venetian state, and a city called Venice.