Republic of Venice

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697 – 1797 · up to 65 thousand km² · Europe

Capital: Venice (810–1797), Eraclea (697–742), Malamocco (742–810)

The Republic of Venice, officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a maritime republic with its capital in Venice, on the northeastern coast of Italy. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto, over the course of its 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the major European commercial and naval powers. Initially extended in the Dogado area, during its history it annexed a large part of Northeast Italy, Istria, Dalmatia, the coasts of present-day Montenegro and Albania as well as numerous islands in the Adriatic and eastern Ionian seas.

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Predecessors: Signoria of Verona, Lordship of Padua

Successors: Austrian Empire, First French rule in the Ionian Islands, Ottoman Empire, Republic of Brescia

Events on its territory

• 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries