In 1964 Noland occupied half the American pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Being thus secure in Rome and the surrounding country, he next set himself to oust the Republic of Venice from Faenza, Rimini, and the other towns and fortresses of Italy which it occupied after the death of Pope Alexander.

After two centuries of war against the nearby major power, the Republic of Venice ( which occupied it briefly from 1369 to 1372 ), the main citizens of Trieste petitioned Leopold III of Habsburg, Duke of Austria to become part of his domains.

Following an unsuccessful Habsburg invasion of Venice in the prelude to the War of the League of Cambrai, the Venetians occupied Trieste again in 1508, and under the terms of the peace were allowed to keep the city.

From Oxford he made his way to Venice, where he occupied himself as a professor of mathematics.

" As Napoleon prepared for the invasion of Russia, he named Villaret governor of Venice in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, in April 1811 ; there he was particularly occupied with maritime affairs.

In 1105, Coloman led his armies to Dalmatia and occupied the Dalmatian towns and islands that had belonged to Venice.

* before 1780-it occupied ff 241-259 of a larger collective binding titled, Arte di armeggiare a piedi ed acavallo ( codex Soranzo MCCLXI ) in the Biblioteca Soranzo in Venice ( Library of Jacopo Soranzo, Venetian senator, 18th century ).

The 2, 000-knights and 6, 000-infantry strong army, led by Pietro Tiepolo, son of the doge of Venice and current podestà of Milan, occupied a favorable position at Manerbio ( November 1237 ).

( It was later occupied by the Inquisition in Venice ).

For the Venice Biennale in 1990, Holzer designed posters, hats, and t-shirts to be sold in the streets of Venice, while her LED signboards and marble benches occupied the solemn and austere exhibition space ( the original installation is retained in its entirety in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the organizing institution for the American Pavilion at the 1990 Venice Biennale ).

The island was probably occupied in the Roman period ; after the foundation of Venice it was called Insula Memmia after the Memmo family who owned it.

In 1570, the Turks first occupied Cyprus, and Lala Mustafa Pasha became the first Turkish Governor of Cyprus, challenging the claims of Venice.

Upon the death of Pope Alexander VI in 1503, Venice occupied several territories in the northern Papal States.

In the 12th century, the Byzantine port was also occupied by merchants from Venice, Amalfi, Genoa and Pisa, who eventually acquired their own wharfs and waterfront districts.

After the fall of Venice to Napoleon, Corfu was occupied in 1797 by the French republican armies ( with some support of the local population, which welcomed the republican ideas, including the downfall of the Venetian nobility, abolition of serfdom, and promises of a Greek republic ).

French forces occupied Aargau from 10 March to 18 April 1798 ; thereafter the Bernese portion became the canton of Aargau in the Helvetic Republic and the remainder formed the Canton of Baden.

West Berlin officially remained an occupied city, but as a corpus separatum it politically was very closely aligned with Federal Republic of Germany despite Berlin's geographic location within East Germany.

Costa Rica occupied a nonpermanent seat in the Security Council from 1997 to 1999 and exercised a leadership role in confronting crises in the Middle East and Africa, as well as in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Rome was occupied by France ( 11 July – 28 September 1799 ) and again by Naples ( 30 September 1799 – 23 June 1800 ), bringing an end to the Roman Republic.

* 1921 – Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.

In 1940 the Soviet Union occupied Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bessarabia ( now the Republic of Moldova ) and Bukovina.

When William of Orange, ruler of the Dutch Republic, occupied the British throne with his wife Mary in what has become known as the Glorious Revolution, gin became vastly more popular, particularly in crude, inferior forms, where it was more likely to be flavoured with turpentine as an alternative to juniper.

The German Democratic Republic ( GDR ; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR ), informally known as East Germany ( German: Ostdeutschland ), was a socialist state established by the Soviet Union in 1949 out of the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city.

Six years into formal colonisation of the East Indies, in Europe the Dutch Republic was occupied by the French forces of Napoleon.

In consequence my Government desires that the Government of the United States guarantee with its forces security for the property of American Citizens in Nicaragua and that it extend its protection to all the inhabitants of the Republic. United States Marines occupied Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933, except for a nine-month period beginning in 1925.

Protestants occupied most church buildings, and those remaining were confiscated by the government of the Dutch Republic of Seven Provinces, which favoured Calvinism.

For example, the Middle Paleolithic Homo sapiens in the region now occupied by the Democratic Republic of the Congo hunted large-long catfish with specialized barbed fishing points as early as 90, 000 years ago.

In addition to annexing several occupied countries as ( or into ) Soviet Socialist Republics, other countries were converted into Soviet Satellite states within the Eastern Bloc, such as the People's Republic of Poland, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the People's Republic of Hungary, the Czechoslovak Republic, the People's Republic of Romania, the People's Republic of Albania, and later East Germany from the Soviet zone of German occupation.

The Po river is first certainly identified in the Graeco-Roman historians and geographers of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, long after the valley had been occupied successively by prehistoric and historic peoples: Ligures, Etruscans, Celts, Veneti, Umbri, and Romans.

The Dutch Republic formally made claim to St Helena in 1633, although there is no evidence that they ever occupied, colonised or fortified it.

The cores of these great empires were located on the territory of the current Republic of Mali, so current-day Senegal occupied a peripheral position.

Not to be confused with the present-day Republic of South Africa, it occupied the area later known as the South African province of Transvaal.

The Republic of Turkey also formally accepted the loss of Cyprus ( which was leased to the British Empire following the Congress of Berlin in 1878, but de jure remained an Ottoman territory until World War I ) as well as Egypt and Sudan ( which were occupied by British forces with the pretext of " putting down the Urabi Revolt and restoring order " in 1882, but de jure remained Ottoman territories until World War I ) to the British Empire, which had unilaterally annexed them on 5 November 1914.

Disputes-international: maritime boundary with Cambodia not defined ; involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly Islands with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), Republic of China ( ROC ), Malaysia, Philippines, and possibly Brunei ; maritime boundary with Thailand resolved in August 1997 ; maritime boundary dispute with the PRC in the Gulf of Tonkin resolved in 2000 ; Paracel Islands occupied by the PRC but claimed by Vietnam and the ROC ; offshore islands and sections of boundary with Cambodia are in dispute ; agreement on land border with the People's Republic of China was signed in December 1999.

Guiscard, returning with 150 ships to restore them, occupied Corfu and Kefalonia with the help of Ragusa and the Dalmatian cities ( which were under the rule of Demetrius Zvonimir of Croatia ), but died along with 500 Norman knights of fever in the latter on 17 July 1085, in his 70th year.

He was then directed to take possession of Dalmatia with his army, and occupied the Republic of Ragusa.

Ragusa was occupied by the Arabs in 848 AD, remaining under their rule until the 11th century, when the Normans conquered it.

In the course of the war of the Fourth Coalition against Napoleon, troops under Bernadotte occupied the neutral Lübeck after a battle against Blücher on November 6, 1806.

Much of Clausewitz's thinking was based on his experience as a Prussian war planner concerned with how to use popular forces in an insurrectionary struggle against the much-superior French forces which occupied Prussia after 1806 — how, in short, to wage a " Spanish War in Germany.

Partly destroyed by natural disasters and rebuilt several times during the following 200 years, and hit by Caragea's plague in 1813 – 1814, the city was wrested from Ottoman control and occupied at several intervals by the Habsburg Monarchy ( 1716, 1737, 1789 ) and Imperial Russia ( three times between 1768 and 1806 ).

In 1806, the Bermudian customs authorities went some way toward acknowledging the Bahamian annexation when it ceased to allow free exchange between the Turks and Bermuda ( this affected many enslaved Bermudians, who, like the free ones, had occupied the Turks only seasonally, returning to their homes in Bermuda after the year's raking had finished ).

When the Dutch Republic, during the Napoleonic Wars, was occupied by the French in 1795, henceforth becoming their vassal and enemy of the British, the United Kingdom invaded and occupied the Cape Colony that same year ; relinquished control of the territory in 1803 ; only to return and reoccupy the Cape on 19 January 1806.

It was occupied by the French in 1806, and refortified in 1813 by command of Napoleon.

* The Town Hall, dating in part from the 14th century, contains the rooms occupied by the Imperial diet from 1663 to 1806.

The French revolutionary troops occupied Carniola in 1797, and from 1805 to 1806.

When Napoleonic troops occupied the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg in 1806 Leopold went to Paris.

Dutch expansion paused for several years during an interregnum of British rule between 1806 and 1816, when the Dutch Republic was occupied by the French forces of Napoleon.

From the end of 1806 through June 1807, Ostrołęka was occupied by French troops.

In the 1806 campaign, Ney fought at Jena and then occupied Erfurt.

Martyn arrived in India in April 1806, where he preached and occupied himself in the study of linguistics.

French troops under Napoleon occupied Capri in January 1806.

On 13 February 1806 the island was occupied by the French and on the 24th was unsuccessfully attacked by the English.

After the defeat of the Prussian army at Jena in 1806, Charlottenburg was occupied by the French.

The British had occupied Simonstown since 1806.

When his father died in 1806, he succeeded in the duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld as " Ernest III ", but could not take over the formal government of his lands, because the duchy was occupied by Napoleonic troops and was under French administration.

In 1806, the Bermudian customs authorities went some way toward acknowledging the Bahamian annexation when it ceased to allow free exchange between the Turks and Bermuda ( this affected many enslaved Bermudians, who, like the free ones, had occupied the Turks only seasonally, returning to their homes in Bermuda after the year's raking had finished ).

In any event, he remained in Leghorn ( Livorno ), occupied with the publication of his works, and died there eight years later in 1806 ( 11 Adar 5566 ).

French forces under Napoleon occupied Prussia, pursued the remnants of the shattered Prussian Army, and captured Berlin on 25 October 1806.

The Khan of Shirwan, Mustafa, who had already entered into negotiations with Zubov, submitted to the Russians in 1805, who occupied Derbend and Baku next year ( 1806 ), but soon afterwards he made overtures to the Persians and sought help from them.

From 1806 to 1813, Bergedorf was occupied by the French during the Napoleonic Wars.