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Saracens and Franks!
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History Walks in VeniceVenice might not have been
Venice was an independent state for almost a millennium, but it might note have been. It all hinged on a single battle fought in the Venetian lagoon in 810.
In the 700s, it had been a province of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna for a long time. However, long wars between the Exarchate and the Lombards had reduced the province to just a sliver of lagoon, called Venetia Marittima, between Grado in the north and Ravenna in the south.
In 751, the Lombards got the better of the Exarchate, when they took Ravenna and captured and probably killed the last Exarch. Then the Franks under Charlemagne appeared in northern Italy, and defeated the Lombards.
#Byzantium #Charlemagne #Franks #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/early-venice/venice-might-not-have-been/
Sestiere – sestieri
Venice is divided into six parts called sestieri - singular sestiere.
It has always been that way. From the earliest sources we have, there sestieri are there in Venice.
#Franks #HowVeniceWorks #SestieriDiVenezia #Topography #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/sestiere-sestieri/
tobadzistsini"To be frank, I'm hungry!" Frank leered at the bbq where rows of burgers and #franks sizzled in the late July afternoon.
A roar rose in the distance. Celebrants scattered before hordes of Vandals, Visigoths, and Franks swarmed the field.
Except Frank.
He faced the chieftain. Frank didn't flinch.
He sneered. "Whaddya want?"
With a mighty shout, "Burgers, beer, and hot dogs!"
Frank folded his arms. "Only after you and your army pays the admission."
Rome was easier than Independence Day.
#wss366
A roar rose in the distance. Celebrants scattered before hordes of Vandals, Visigoths, and Franks swarmed the field.
Except Frank.
He faced the chieftain. Frank didn't flinch.
He sneered. "Whaddya want?"
With a mighty shout, "Burgers, beer, and hot dogs!"
Frank folded his arms. "Only after you and your army pays the admission."
Rome was easier than Independence Day.
#wss366
Venetian StoriesVenice 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.
