* 1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.

The Venetians had factories on the north side of the Golden Horn, and large numbers of westerners were present in the city throughout the 12th century.

The Venetians on making humble submission were absolved at the beginning of 1510, and shortly afterwards France was placed under papal interdict.

He ordered the Pope to expel the Venetians from the Pentapolis along the Adriatic coast, and Charlemagne's own son Pepin of Italy, king of the Lombards under the authority of his father, embarked on a siege of Venice itself.

* The Uskok War ( 1615-18 ) continues between the Austrians and Spanish ( Habsburg Empire ) on one side and the Venetians, Dutch, and English on the other.

* 1263 – Genoa captures the city of Chania on Crete from the Venetians.

The Venetians held Thessaloniki until it was captured by the Ottoman Sultan Murad II on 29 March 1430.

* Genoa captures the city of Chania on Crete from the Venetians.

The statute, i. e. the law establishing and regulating the regional institution, which was first promulgated on 22 May 1971, uses the term popolo ( people ) for Venetians, but, like in the case of Sardinians, this is not a legal recognition of any differences from other Italian citizens.

Meanwhile in Lombardy tensions increased until the Milanese and Venetians rose in revolt on 18 March 1848.

Soon, Charles Albert, the King of Sardinia ( who ruled Piedmont and Savoy ), urged by the Venetians and Milanese to aid their cause, decided this was the moment to unify Italy and declared war on Austria.

To secure their rule, Venetians began in 1212 to settle families from Venice on Crete.

A competing theory holds that the name is derived from the district of Malevizi, near the city of Heraklion ( known to the Venetians as Candia ) on Crete.

An incident involving the abuse of a member of the imperial family by Venetians led to a dangerous conflict, especially as Byzantium had depended on Venice for its naval strength.

During the Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War, following a major victory over the Ottoman fleet, the Venetians captured the island again on 20 August 1656, but the Ottomans recovered it barely a year later, on 31 August 1657, after a siege of 36 days.

Episodes of military history in the various compartments glorify the exploits of the Venetians, with particular emphasis on the conquest of the maritime empire ; the only exception being the last oval, recording the taking of Padua in 1405.

Ineffectual on the battlefield, Isaac had been an incompetent ruler who had let the treasury dwindle, outsourced the navy to the Venetians, and distributed military weapons and supplies as gifts to loyalists, fatally undermining the Empire's defense.

This agreement required a full year of preparation on the part of the Venetians to build numerous ships and train the sailors who would man them, all the while curtailing the city's commercial activities.

In 1332 he had allowed the Venetians to establish a colony at Tanais on the Don.

Consecrated emperor at Rome, in a church outside the walls, by Pope Honorius III on 9 April 1217, he borrowed some ships from the Venetians, promising in return to conquer Durazzo for them ; but he failed in this enterprise, and sought to make his way to Constantinople by land.

On 7 March 1573 the Venetians thus recognized by treaty the Ottoman possession of Cyprus, whose last Venetian possession, Famagosta, had fallen to the Turks under Piyale Pasha on 3 August 1571, just two months before Lepanto, and remained Turkish for the next three centuries, and that summer the Ottoman Navy attacked the geographically vulnerable coasts of Sicily and southern Italy.

Alexios accompanied Boniface back to the Crusader fleet, which had moved on to Corcyra, and the Venetians were in favour of the plan when they learned of it.

By the beginning of 1204, Isaac II and Alexios IV had inspired little confidence among the people of Constantinople in their efforts to defend the city from the Latins and Venetians, who were restless and rioted when the money and aid promised by Alexios IV was not forthcoming.

Of the icon painting tradition that developed in Byzantium, with Constantinople as the chief city, we have only a few icons from the 11th century and none preceding them, in part because of the Iconoclastic reforms during which many were destroyed, and also because of plundering by Venetians in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, and finally the taking of the city by the Islamic Turks in 1453.

The important city of Thessaloniki was captured from the Venetians in 1387.

As a result, they diverted the crusade to the Christian city of Zara at the will of the Venetians to subsidize the debt.

Six hundred years ago, Venetians protected themselves from land-based attacks by diverting all the major rivers flowing into the lagoon and thus preventing sediment from filling the area around the city.

* The city of Vicenza comes under the rule of the Venetians.

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.

In 1252 the Venetians managed to subdue the Cretans but in 1263, their rivals of Genoa, with local support, seized the city under the leadership of Enrico Pescatore, count of Malta, and held it until 1285, when the Venetians returned.

In 1263 the Latins ceded Mystras as ransom for William II of Villehardouin, and Michael VIII Palaeologus made the city the seat of the new Despotate of Morea, ruled by his relatives, although the Venetians still controlled the coast and the islands.

The city lost even its ancient and original name that was forgotten, named Porto Leone by the Venetians in 1317, meaning ' Lion's Port ' from the Piraeus Lion standing at the harbour's entrance, and Porto Draco by the Franks.

The winter that season was particularly cold, so cold that the lagoon of Venice froze over, and the Venetians were able to walk from the city to the mainland.

In that occasion he was captured by the Venetians, who held him as hostage for several months and humiliated him: this caused his perpetual hostility towards that city, and he refused any subsequent request to return to command its army.

On January 25 an agreement between the Venetians and the Ottoman Empire ended the siege, permitting the citizens to leave unharmed, and the Ottomans to take over the deserted city.

As they were not able to produce enough money, the Venetians used them to initiate the Siege of Zadar, when the city was ransacked, demolished and robbed.

The Venetians restrained the political and economical autonomy of Zadar, which, regardless, remained a prosperous city.

The city, like the rest of Dalmatia, resisted the Venetians in a three-year war that was resolved in their favor in 1412.

The city then became a corsair harbour and struggled against the French and the Venetians.

As Pula had sided with the Pisans, the city was sacked by the Venetians in 1243.

The Aegean Sea was later invaded by the Persians and the Romans, and inhabited by the Byzantine Empire, the Bulgarians, the Venetians, the Genoeses, the Seljuq Turks, and the Ottoman Empire.

During Alexius II's reign, the Byzantine Empire was invaded by King Bela III losing Syrmia and Bosnia to the Kingdom of Hungary in AD 1181, later even Dalmatia was lost to the Venetians.

The buildings of the Acropolis suffered significant damage during the 1687 siege by the Venetians in the Morean War.

Despite the regard in which he was held by the Venetians, Dürer returned to Nuremberg by mid-1507, remaining in Germany until 1520.

Banda was the world's only source of nutmeg and mace, spices used as flavourings, medicines, preserving agents, that were at the time highly valued in European markets ; sold by Arab traders to the Venetians for exorbitant prices.

The Venetians gained control over most of Dalmatia by 1428, with exception of the city-state of Dubrovnik which became independent.

The Greeks held out in the Peloponnese until 1460, and the Venetians and Genoese clung to some of the islands, but by 1500 most of the plains and islands of Greece were in Ottoman hands.

Regional differences can be recognized by various factors: the openness of vowels, the length of the consonants, and influence of the local language ( for example, in informal situations the contraction annà replaces andare in the area of Rome for the infinitive " to go "; and nare is what Venetians say for the infinitive " to go ").

The Genoese, assisted by the Pisan merchants, attacked the Venetian quarter and burned their ships, but the Venetians drove them out.

The Venetians were then expelled from Tyre by Philip of Monfort.

Acre was defended by Henry II's brother Amalric of Tyre, the Hospitallers, Templars, and Teutonic Knights, the Venetians and Pisans, the French garrison led by Jean I de Grailly, and the English garrison led by Otton de Grandson, but they were vastly outnumbered.

In the following naval battle they were defeated by the Venetians.

The only gondole still in common use by Venetians are the traghetti, foot passenger ferries crossing the Grand Canal at certain points without bridges.

* The Rocca Brancaleone (" Brancaleone Castle "), built by the Venetians in 1457.

The treason by the Venetians placed the huge Turkish army ( 60, 000 ) under sultan Murad II in close proximity to the unsuspecting crusaders ( 20, 000 ).