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* Doges were elected by their Italian aristocratic republics from a patrician nobility, but " reigned " as sovereign dukes.
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In practice, several Doges were forced by pressure from their oligarchical peers to resign the office and retire into monastic seclusion when they were felt to have been discredited by perceived political failure.
Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy.
* Directly linked to the Shield Hall, the Philosophers ’ Room takes its name from the twelve pictures of ancient philosophers which were set up here in the 18th century, to be later replaced with allegorical works and portraits of Doges.
The Republic of Genoa, in northern Italy, was technically a communal republic in the early Middle Ages, although it was actually an oligarchy ruled by a small group of merchant families, from whom the Doges of Genoa were selected.
The Adorno family was a patrician family in Genoa, Italy, of the Ghibelline party, several of whom were Doges of the republic.
Doges and by
Other paintings are by Tintoretto and show various Doges with the Christ, the Virgin and saints.
The ornate gothic style of the Doge's Palace ( and other similar palaces throughout Italy ) is replicated in the Hall of Doges at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington by architect Kirtland Cutter.
It has 19th century French paintings by Charles Daubigny, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Eugene Boudin (" Port, Le Havre "), Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte (" Railway Bridge at Argentieul "), Claude Monet (" Doges Palace, Venice ), Camille Pissarro, and Paul Cézanne as well as many others.
Doges and Italian
With its spacious Spanish Renaissance-styled main lobby, Isabella dining hall, Italian Gardens restaurant, Marie Antoinette Ballroom, and ornate Hall of Doges, the Davenport was widely considered one of America's grandest hotels and remained so for many years.
Doges and republics
* Doges of the ' crowned republics ', Genoa and Venice
Doges and from
The Palace of the Doges view from Piazza Matteotti.
Contarini is a noted Venetian family, from which eight Doges to the Republic of Venice emerged, as well as other notables.
The Cornaro, also known as Corner, are an illustrious patrician family in Venice, from which for centuries senior office-holders and Doges sprung.
Doges and reigned
By 1797, when the most recent Doge reigned, the family had produced eight Doges.
Doges and .
The main features of central Genoa include Piazza De Ferrari, around which are sited the Opera and the Palace of the Doges.
From 1474 he was the official portrait artist for the Doges of Venice.
The Cornaro family had produced four Doges.
The Palazzo was built between 1428 and 1430 for the Contarini family, who provided Venice with eight Doges between 1043 and 1676.
He was a member of a famous noble Venetian family ( the Morosini family ) which produced several Doges and generals.
In fact, the first of the four Venetian Doges of the Candiano family, Pietro, died on 18 September, 886, in a battle against the Neretvans who defeated the Venetian fleet near Makarska.
* c. 1910: The Hall of Doges, above Davenport's Restaurant-see The Davenport Hotel
were and elected
`` The argument that is cutting most ice is that Hearst is the only candidate who is fighting the trusts fearlessly and who would use all the powers of government to disrupt them if he were elected.
Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.
The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.
Lincoln finished eighth out of 13 candidates ( the top four were elected ), though he received 277 of the 300 votes cast in the New Salem precinct.
At that time, senators were elected by the state legislature.
* In 1990 12 soldiers were sent to Trinidad after a failed coup attempt by radical Black Muslims against the constitutionally elected government headed by Prime Minister A. N. R.
Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.
They elected a city council, although only a small number of rich families were eligible for election.
He was elected as Governor of Tennessee for two terms ; all these offices were gained as a member of the Democratic Party.
He and Lincoln were elected in 1864, inaugurated in early 1865 and a month later Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln's assassination.
" He and Lincoln were elected in a landslide victory.
Since Johnson's proclamations allowed the Southern states to control the procedure and conduct of their elections in 1865, prominent former Confederate leaders were elected to the U. S. Congress ( but not seated ).
Unlike a parliament, the assembly's members were not elected, but attended by right when they chose.
The officials of the democracy were in part elected by the Assembly and in large part chosen by lot.
They were mostly chosen by lot, with a much smaller ( and more prestigious ) group of about 100 elected.
In the 5th century version of the democracy, the ten annually elected generals were often very prominent, but for those who had power, it lay primarily in their frequent speeches and in the respect accorded them in the assembly, rather than their vested powers.
Approximately one hundred officials out of a thousand were elected rather than chosen by lot.
One reason that financial officials were elected was that any money embezzled could be recovered from their estates ; election in general strongly favoured the rich, but in this case wealth was virtually a prerequisite.
Generals were elected not only because their role required expert knowledge but also because they needed to be people with experience and contacts in the wider Greek world where wars were fought.
Michael Vick and Keith Brooking were elected to the NFC Pro Bowl for their performances in the 2002 regular season.
Plebeian Aediles were elected by the Plebeian Council ( popular assembly ), usually while under the presidency of a Plebeian Tribune.
Curule Aediles were elected by the Tribal Assembly, usually while under the presidency of a Roman Consul.
Since the Plebeian Aediles were elected by the Plebeians ( commoners ), rather than by all of the People of Rome ( Plebeians as well as members of the Patrician aristocracy ), they were not technically magistrates.
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