* Marco Sanudo, Venetian crusader

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.

* 1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.

During this period, the Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola had become prior of the San Marco monastery in 1490.

I Vitelloni inspired European directors Juan Antonio Bardem, Marco Ferreri, and Lina Wertmuller and had an influence on Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets ( 1973 ), George Lucas's American Graffiti ( 1974 ), Joel Schumacher's St. Elmo's Fire ( 1985 ), and Barry Levinson's Diner ( 1987 ), among many others.

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.

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.

Pope Gregory IX made him a cardinal on 18 September 1227 with the cure of San Marco, and in 1228 – 29 sent him as legate in Lombardy and Tuscany, where the cities and communes had generally remained true to the Hohenstaufen emperor, Frederick II.

In the meanwhile he has had time enough for some more animation, so we have Aihnoo degli Icebergs ( 1972 ), The Fourth King ( 1977 ) and a new TV series, The Adventures of Marco and Gina ( Sopra i tetti di Venezia ) ( 2001 ).

De Marchis and Rossellini had two sons: Marco Romano ( born 3 July 1937 and died of appendicitis in 1946 ), and Renzo ( born 24 August 1941 ).

ITV Digital operated out of Marco Polo House, the south London building home to shopping channel QVC and which had once housed The Observer newspaper, but perhaps most famous as the lavish headquarters of the ill-fated British Satellite Broadcasting.

He broached these apocalyptic themes in San Gimignano where he went as Lenten preacher in 1485 and again in 1486, but a year later, when he left San Marco for a new assignment, he had said nothing of his " San Giorgio revelations " in Florence.

Philip Neri, founder of the Oratorians, a Florentine who had been educated by the San Marco Dominicans, also defended Savonarola's memory.

While the Portuguese ( and, subsequently, other Europeans ) were entering China from its southern coast, by the sea route, the question arose as to whether it happens to be the same country as Cathay which Marco had reached by the overland route.

Prior to his arrival in the Republic, the death of Marco Ricci in 1730 had created an opening in the field of landscape painting amid a marketplace crowded with history painters, and Zuccarelli's unique blend of countryside and Arcadia quickly achieved success.

Moreover, the siege had already ended before Marco Polo's arrival in China.

Doubtless it was Marco Polo's description that inspired Antonio Pigafetta, one of Magellan's companions, who wrote or had ghost-written an embroidered account of the circumglobal voyage ; in Pigafetta's account the home grounds of the roc were the seas of China.

He should have had Shane Mosley and Bernard Hopkins and ( Marco Antonio ) Barrera and Winky Wright on there and used it to show that boxing is back ".

Marco Polo had discussed Ethiopia as a magnificent Christian land and Orthodox Christians had a legend that the nation would one day rise up and invade Arabia, but they did not place Prester John there.

Japan had been known in Portugal since the time of Marco Polo, who called it Cipango.

More of Brian's works have been published since the 1980s and ' 90s, and the scarcity of well-rehearsed performances or mature interpretations that had previously made the quality of his music difficult to assess has been partially corrected through the series of professional recordings of many of Brian's symphonies that have been issued by the Marco Polo record label on CD.

By 1937, Japan had annexed territory north of Beijing and, following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, a full-scale invasion of China began.

Another version of Thin Lizzy was formed later that year by John Sykes ( now also performing lead vocals ) with Downey, Gorham and Wharton, and with bass parts played by Marco Mendoza, who had played with Sykes in Blue Murder from 1991 – 93.

( Even though there were Europeans in Medieval China, notably Marco Polo, that period of contact had been interrupted by the fall of the Yuan Dynasty.

These had originally four gates, Porta al Borgo, Porta San Marco, Porta Carratica and Porta Lucchese, all demolished at the beginning of the 20th century.

As with other European languages, English historically had a variety of names for Korea derived from Marco Polo's rendering of Goryeo, " Cauli " ( see Revival of the names above ).