Tag: 600s
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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 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 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.