In the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, with a Latin Emperor under the influence of the Venetians established at Constantinople, the Venetian Marco Sanudo conquered the island and soon captured the rest of the islands of the Cyclades, establishing himself as Duke of Naxia, or Duke of the Archipelago.

Miller identified said sister with the wife of Marco I Sanudo and mother of Angelo Sanudo.

During the Frankish period the island formed part of the Duchy of Naxos, except for the few years ( 1341 – 1383 ) when it was a separate lordship under Marco Sanudo and his daughter.

She was the daughter and successor of Marco Sanudo, Lord of Milos from 1341 to 1376.

Marco was a younger son of William I Sanudo, Duke of the Archipelago from 1303 to 1323.

The island was conquered in 1207 by the Venetian Marco Sanudo and remained under the rule of Venice until 1566, when it was taken by the Ottoman Turks.

Marco Sanudo ( 1153 (?

All biographies of Marco Sanudo have been written centuries after the facts they tell.

In the first one, Istoria di Romania, Marino Sanudo Torsello, a member of the Sanudo family only writes about Marco Sanudo:

Sailing separately, Marco Sanudo and those following him conquered the islands of Naxos, Paros, Milos and Santorini, and Marino Dandolo conquered Andros.

A chronicle in Venetian dated of 1360-1362 and attributed to an Enrico Dandolo gives a short biography of Marco Sanudo starting with his struggle in Crete against Enrico Pescatore.

Also, it's the first text stating that Marco Sanudo and Doge Enrico Dandolo are related.

The Sanudo family may have originated in Eraclea where Marco Sanudo's ancestors held charges.

Four generations after Pietro IV, a Marco Sanudo is recorded ( second half of 11th century ) as an " councilor " and " captain ".

Thus, the first certain fact known about Marco Sanudo is that he took part to the Fourth Crusade.

Genovese and venetian trade routeswith the places where Marco Sanudo presence is proven.

In the conquered Constantinople, Marco Sanudo became judge at the consular court ( giudice del commun ) and then took part to the negotiations between the Republic of Venice and Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat that ended with the purchase of Crete, given to Boniface, by Venice.

The head of the ambassadors was Geoffroi de Villehardouin and Marco Sanudo was among them.

Some medieval chronicles-after the one by Enrico Dandolo ( 1360 – 1362 )- say that this Treaty of Adrianople explicitely gave Marco Sanudo lands on Crete.

Marco Sanudo, with his uncle Enrico Dandolo's and the Latin Emperor's blessings, armed with his own money eight galleys that had been entrusted to him in order to fight the Genoans.

Marco Sanudo had to have his conquest certified by the Latin Empire authorities.

This quotation was based upon the writings of the Venetian explorer Marco Polo who is widely believed to have visited Xanadu in about 1275.

The name Madageiscar was first recorded in the memoirs of 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo as a corrupted form of the name Mogadishu, the Somali port with which Polo had confused the island.

Marco Polo (; ; September 15, 1254 – January 9, 1324 ) was a Venetian merchant traveler whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China.

One possible place of birth is Venice's former contrada of San Giovanni Crisostomo, which is sometimes presented by historians as the birthplace, and it is generally accepted that Marco Polo was born in the Venetian Republic with most biographers pointing towards Venice itself as Marco Polo's home town.

Due to the Venetian law stating that the day ends at sunset, the exact date of Marco Polo's death cannot be determined, but it was between the sunsets of January 8 and 9, 1324.

Pietro Ottoboni was born of a noble Venetian family, and was the son of Marco Ottoboni, chancellor of the Republic of Venice.

In Venice, from about 1534 until around 1600, an impressive polychoral style developed, which gave Europe some of the grandest, most sonorous music composed up until that time, with multiple choirs of singers, brass and strings in different spatial locations in the Basilica San Marco di Venezia ( see Venetian School ).

* Marco Polo, Venetian trader and explorer

* 1254 – September 15 – Marco Polo, Venetian merchant and explorer ( d. 1324 )

He wore rouge in public. The story of Cardinal Ammanati that he meant to take the name Formosus II (" handsome "), but was persuaded not to, is more often repeated than the story that he was dissuaded from Marcus, being Venetian and the Cardinal of San Marco, because it was also the war-cry of Venice.

This was particularly popular in Venetian churches such as the Basilica San Marco, where extensive instrumental accompaniment was encouraged, particularly in use with antiphonal choirs.

* Argentinian — Ortolan, Marco: Venetian Clown ( n. d .).

Around the same time, the Venetian explorer Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China, and his tales, documented in The Travels of Marco Polo, opened Western eyes to some of the customs of the Far East.

Victor Emmanuel entered Venice and Venetian land, and performed an act of homage in the Piazza San Marco.

The fleet moved to Sicily, leaving Messina and reaching the port of Viscando, where news arrived of the fall of Famagusta and of the torture inflicted by the Turks on the Venetian commander of the fortress, Marco Antonio Bragadin.

At the northern end, closest to the coast, was the Left Division of 53 galleys, mainly Venetian, led by Agostino Barbarigo ( admiral ), with Marco Querini and Antonio da Canale in support.

From 1740 he was in Rome with Marco Foscarini, the Venetian envoy to the Vatican.

The Papal fleet under Admiral Marco Grimani ( Patriarch of Aquileia ) and the Venetian fleet under Vincenzo Capello arrived first.

Venetian propaganda during the Siege: Il regno tutto di Candia, Marco Boschini, 1651

It is unknown when the first spectacles were made, but the British scientist and historian Sir Joseph Needham stated in his research that the ancient Chinese invented the earliest eyeglasses 1000 years ago and were also mentioned by the Venetian Marco Polo in his account of his travels in ancient China.

Xanadu was visited by the Venetian traveler Marco Polo in about 1275, and in 1797 inspired a famous poem, Kubla Khan, by one of the leading English poets of the Romanticism movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.